u/Subtle_Curiosity

MIL - Why don't you put her on the floor?

Husband has been trying (now successfully yaay) to get baby to nap with him. Since she's currently bottle refusing bottles all their progress is great and happy news for us. He wanted to share his win in his parents' family group chat when he got her to sleep while I was at work, his mom proceeds to ask "if she's asleep why don't you put her on the floor?" To which my husband replied that she fell asleep while he walked her and that he wouldn't be putting her down. Next day, same thing, and my husband at this point just tells her, this is where she fell asleep, I'm not putting her on the floor, she can sleep on me if she wants and I like having her sleep like this.

Putting children on the bare floor to sleep is not common practice in our culture, and it's also coming from a lady who proudly bragged about how she would leave her children at 11 pm and not check on them again until 7 am next morning when they were newborns, who has complained (not even kidding) every single time we've been to visit about how the baby [3mo] just "poops and sleeps" when she's there and has disrupted her sleep so "she can see her eyes", "people don't sleep in the day, babies shouldn't either", "why do you let her wake up at night? If my mom were alive she would be sleeping through the night already".

Granted, if it isn't obvious, I don't like my MIL, I find her disruptive, overly negative, narcissistic, a bully and downright unpleasant. And for someone who wasn't even happy with the pregnancy and now calls the baby "my grandma's baby" and acts as if boundaries don't exist to tell us to just leave your child on the ground, just grinds my gears.

Am I being unreasonable? Is putting my baby on the bare floor good for her somehow? Or am I right in staring her down in my mind?

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u/Subtle_Curiosity — 1 day ago