Need to rant a bit....

I think I have mentioned my MIL before...I refer to her as "Annoying Grandma" because she has been SO irritating to me in regards to my son. She continues to push my buttons as the days and weeks go by- and I am getting to the point where I may say or do something I may regret...so I am venting here...

This woman is the biggest, pushiest, most annoying person I have ever known. Nothing I say or do regarding the baby is ok with her...she calls all of my parenting decisions into question....I am at the end of my rope here..ready to strangle her with it if she doesn't stop the incessant smothering.

She hates that I am nursing...she thinks I am "starving" the baby and he's not eating enough if it's only breast milk- I now supplement with formula, but she thinks he should be eating a lot more solid food ("I was feeding my kids at 3 months old with solid foods and they turned out ok!") I started the baby on rice cereal, and she questioned that... "Rice is so constipating, why don't you give him applesauce?" I tell her NO the Dr recommends no fruits until 7 months. "But applesauce shouldn't be a problem!" Again, NO he needs to get used to 1 type of food at a time, and no fruits yet.

She harps on the fact that the baby has reflux and spits up alot- She calls several times a week to ask if he's still spitting up...when I tell her yes, she will say something like..."Oh, intestinal troubles run in your family don't they? You have a lot of stomach issues...." GOD IN HEAVEN... my stomach issues were always due to nerves...since adulthood I have realized that all of those "stomach aches" etc were due to anxiety and stress. This woman creates a lot of stress and anxiety for me. I truly detest her.

She harps on weight all the time. As if I don't have enough of that from my OWN mother, I need it from this woman too? "Your husband is getting fat, you need to make him exercise." All the while looking at ME up and down because I have put on weight that I haven't been able to take off yet since the pregnancy began. She is unreasonable about weight.... my SIL (Hubby's sister) has a little girl that my MIL believes is too fat...the child is 1 1/2 yrs old and within a normal percentile according to the pediatrician. She bases this misguided assumption of "fatness" on the fact that the child has a little pot belly...she is a BABY...for crying out loud!!! After her repeating this over a few times, I finally said to her..."If the Dr isn't worried about her weight, then you should leave it alone! And by the way, if you ever decide to pick on my son this way I will NOT ALLOW it and it will NOT be tolerated!" This woman is the devil I swear!!

I know this is most likely an irrational rant to most anyone who reads it, but know this: all the content is real...this woman tortures me on a daily basis and she does it when she knows that my husband isn't home so she can get away with it. I can't avoid the phone calls, because if I don't answer, she will hang up and keep calling back until I answer..and if I don't answer the house phone, she will call my cell phone. I detest this woman.

Now she has it in her head that we need to eat dinner with her EVERY Sunday...I want to just curl up in a fetal ball and disappear! Hubby and I need alone time to be a family with our son...I am sick and tired of being bullied! A simple visit isn't enough for her...now we have to be up her ass for an entire day and I am SOOOOOOOO dreading it!!!

Ok that's it for my rant... I needed to get this off my chest....

No one is reading this blog anyway, so this was purely indulgent on my part...

That's it and that's all!