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Both sets of parents think our sleep sacks are ao weird and subtly or not subtly ask when we are going to let him have blankets.

Also, we make our own baby food (which my mom thinks is super hippy. Ummmm or cheap.) But when we are out and about we tend to use jarred or pouches. My mom is always talking about how "they didn't make combinations back then. It was just peas or just broccoli or just appleaauce." Which I don't think I believe!

Extended rear facing, for sure. My mom gets all huffy about it when I say it's safer, but I was FF at four months. They also don't understand the cloth diapering, even though I only cloth diaper part-time. I also got major side-eye for not wanting to do CIO (even though I ended up doing it) and for still feeding her in the middle of the night after six months. Oh, and breastfeeding past the time of her getting teeth.

@littlejoy: it was some pineapple and juice dessert! I was like, no wonder I liked it, LOL! Although I do like canadian bacon and pineapple pizza....

Rear facing until 2 was a big one, they just didn't understand why she had to be backwards that long.

How when she was older I didn't rock her to sleep (she hated to be rocked) MIL would TRY AND TRY when babysitting to rock her to sleep and it drive me nuts because she would fall asleep after 2 minutes if you just laid her down and walked away.

My in laws and parents say stomach sleeping is best.

My mom thinks breastfeeding is just crazy. Everyone in my family was FF by choice.

She also thinks it's weird that we don't co-sleep and that LO is in her room already at two months.

@littlejoy: I just got my bfp so my parents don't know yet lol but I am jumping in to say I had that same barbie!! Hahaha! What were they thinking? Oh, the 80s

My mom thinks toddler beds are a huge scam. She laughed at me when I said I was thinking about transitioning LO.

My grandma was a big proponent of stomach sleeping. My mom said she used call my mom to remind her to flip us over to sleep on our bellies for good shaped heads.

My mom used to think the big expensive strollers were overkill, but then she pushed my sisters bugaboo and a cheapie stroller and realized how much smoother the ride is. Now she says she wishes they had better strollers when we were little. Hers didn't fold to go into a car at all, so they only place she could walk us was around our very residential neighborhood. Also, mommy meet up kind of things in general- she wishes she'd done something like that because she felt very isolated as a sahm.

My grandma thinks everything is amazing. Like, I pulled out a pouch at her house and she was amazed. It's sweet.

@illumina: Dh says the same thing about "what if you get hit from behind?" Ive told him a thousand times that rear facing is way safer, but that this is one thing I am just trusting and cannot read or watch videos explaining why. If he wants to do more research he is welcome to, but I will never get the crash test images out of my head and I just trust the experts on this issue! (He isn't advocating for turning her, just being a pain!).

@littlejoy: lol at the lighter roller skates. I'd be so horrified if I saw Lo do that!

@illumina: @Foodnerd81: It's still way safer to be RF when you get hit from behind. Think about it: whiplash is caused because the momentum is moving forward so your head/neck go forward then whip back. When RF, the child's head goes into the seat.

ETA: My mom couldn't get over how bare LO's crib was. But she works at a children's hospital so she understands and didn't try to persuade me to add a bumper or anything like that.

My in-laws could not understand swaddling with the Swaddlemes. They just hated how tight we would wrap them up. Whenever they'd be over and helping, they'd use the Swaddleme, but just sort of drape it loosely around the babies and then velcro it, totally defeating the point of a tight swaddle!

My parents are more open to the new way of things, but they don't understand a lot of the feeding rules these days. My kids were barely 5 months and my dad asked if he could give them Cheerios! My mom said she gave us really thick rice cereal in our bottles at 6 weeks old!

I can see my mom thinking "nipple confusion" isn't a real thing. I plan to get the Comotomo bottles that are breast like and recommended for babies that are also breastfed. My mom nursed and used Playtex bottles with the disposable liners for formula. My bro didn't have a problem eating from either source and I'm sure I didn't either.