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So hilarious and so not true! MILs be crazy...

Oh, the things. all the things.

Water is better for babies than milk. They need to drink water if they are going to grow tall.

Babies must sleep on their bellies in order for their faces to be shaped beautifully. If they sleep on their backs, their faces will end up flat and their noses wide.

My mom recently insisted that sick toddlers MUST drink juice. (my kids have no problems sucking down water and milk when they're sick. We never have juice in the house... sometimes WJ has it at birthday parties, but LMW has never tasted juice.) I didn't want to fight the fight so she went out and bought motts for tots... put it into a cup... LMW took a sip and made a face, then cried. Back to water which she sucked down happily. Mommy wins.

If my MIL tells me how C will STTN once she has some rice cereal in her belly one more time, I'm going to throw the rice cereal at her.

Really, I like and get along well with my MIL, but a bite of cereal won't make her magically STTN. But now I'm just digging in my heels and refusing to give C the stupid cereal. I think I'm going to give her some oatmeal though and see what happens.

Also big babies need solids before 6 months/there is no way that baby (in regards to any big baby under 6 months) isn't eating solids.

Hahaha! Those are hilarious!

@Foodnerd81: Omg, my MIL and rice cereal. She won't give it a rest! He will not STTN from rice cereal!

She also always thinks DS is cold. He was asleep in bed in fleece pjs with a sleep sack. Our house is 70-72 degrees. I hide all the blankets in our house when she babysits (we only let her after bedtime) so we came home and she had covered him with a dirty towel in his crib, because he was "cold". Omg.

@mrs. wagon: bahahaha that sleeping thing is HILARIOUS! So I guess there's going to be a whole generation of flat faces kiddos now?

My MIL is pretty good, she doesn't want to overstep her boundaries which I really appreciate, but my mom reallllly doesn't accept that we don't want LO to have sugar. I've busted her trying to feed her a cookie and ginger ale. Grrrrrrr.

My MIL told me she really doesn't agree that her son, my BIL doesn't smack his children...she kissed her chances of babysitting goodbye at that moment.
She also turns up at their house with bags and bags of sweeties then tells us how badly behaved the sugar filled children behaved...she is to leave all bags at the door when she enters out house.

I love my MIL but she is bonkers, she called my dad a totally wrong name during his wedding speech, everyone stared at her. At least my DH will stand up for us both when she tries any nonsense when this baby arrives.

My MIL was horrified, like totally disgusted, that I breastfed past 4 months. (She's Indonesian, I always felt that she would've been supportive..) And she would remind me how gross she thought it was every visit.

@grizz: OMG my mom wrapped my son in two flannel blankets and a hat when we were in the hospital. The nurse came in and took his temperature and it was 100+! The nurse freaked out and unswaddled him. The temperature went down two minutes later. My mom never apologized to me though she told my dad about it! I think it was then I realized I didn't have to listen to her.

Also...what is the problem if a baby is cold?? I mean, if they are fussy, then obviously fix it. But if he is running around, happy and playing, then why would I bundle him up more than he is indicating he needs to be? I just don't get the fear of cold babies!

My MIL told DH to put a red thread on LO's forehead when she gets the hiccups.

Also always asking if the baby is cold and shouldn't we put some more clothes on her.

LO isn't here yet, but DH's stepmom told our niece to "stop being such a baby" when she was still under 2yo! Apparently she doesn't think toddlers should cry when they're upset. She never had kids of her own, and never wanted them (she only married FIL 5 years ago), so I'm expecting more of those kinds of things in the future. But I can tell you right now I won't be putting up with it like SIL did.

Well my MIL is the absent grandmother so we don't hear any crazy stuff from her.

My step mother is the very opinionated one. DS is a fussy eater and she acted horrified that he wouldn't eat salad. He was maybe 15 months and only had 3 teeth!
She also yelled at me for not putting DS in the car seat with his winter jacket. I explained it wasn't safe so she got all huffy and said she never heard of that and didn't believe it.
My dad is always on our case for having the car seat rear facing. DS is so tiny that he's not even allowed to forward face and he's not even 2!

This am she put on Facebook that her DH and my DS were her valentines. Didn't mention my husband at all, what? I'm mad for him, it just irks me. The post was DH you've been my valentine for the last many years but this year my grandson may be number 1, uhh shouldn't your son be in there somewhere?!?

They read this statistic in our baby class : new parent instincts are correct 95% of the time (when child is ill, etc), but grandparent instincts are correct less than 50%.