According to her, if our baby doesn't warm up to her in a week, she's leaving.
8.5 months old, recovering from an illness while struggling with pre-eruptive teething pain and separation anxiety. No family nearby. MIL teased for 5 months once winter clears that she'd travel to try and give us some relief for 2-3 weeks. Instead she's barely helpful, judges our parenting, refuses to note anything down if we leave after agreeing to, ignores us when we tell and show her how he likes to engage, and she doesn't want to be around him because she "makes him cry."
She's only been here a few days. I'm speechless. I can't tell if this is more common behavior than I think or not from a grandmother? We are just trying to keep our heads above water and hiring sitters to help while she's here because her help is so insufficient. For context she's a very healthy, active woman in her late 60s. Edit: I will add that she's not entirely unhelpful, she does help clean and she can lend a hand with some things at least, it's just such a far cry from what we really need right now