Rant incoming:
I love my Mom, really, but I've spent the last week at her house with the baby. She is actually fairly AP, she breastfed us all (my sister and the twins to a year, me to 10 months), my sister co-slept in her bed till she was 4, she cloth diapered me and one of my sisters. She was the one who suggested delaying/cutting out some of his vaccinations. She also has said she had her chance with her 4, so since DS is my son it is up to me on what I want to do to raise him.
That being said, in the past week she has commented something like 6 million times how giving him a little rice cereal will help him sleep better at night. She doesn't seem to get the point that we do not want to do rice cereal. We'll do oatmeal, but I really don't want to do rice cereal. I also don't think it will help him sleep at night, but that is another story all together. I mean he has had more non-breast milk in the past week, then he has in the past month. Which I don't mind, but he isn't getting rice cereal. It is really getting annoying actually.
Her other comment about how he is hungry, and needs food to help fill in the gap, is getting annoying too, I mean DS does like solids, he loves to play with them and eat his cut up pieces of fruits and veggies, but he so isn't getting much in the way of calorie intake out of them. Heck if we gave him rice cereal he still won't be getting many calories since he would be getting like 1 tablespoon at the most of it. So I really don't follow her logic.
On the plus side we head home tomorrow, and when we come back on the 20th (for Thanksgiving), all my siblings and such will be staying at the lake house with us and so we probably won't have to hear the whole rice cereal thing for those 5 days at least.
I really do love her and hanging out and spending time with her, but I really wish she would get off this rice cereal kick, since I have no intention of giving Desmond rice cereal.
Ahh that ranting felt so good. My mother in law also comments on the rice cereal, but it isn't as bad with her since she lives by us, so we only see them for a few hours at a time. Though I am still boggling over my mother in laws comment, when we were talking about carseats, that Desmond would get bored facing the rear, so we'd have to switch him to forward facing. Both DH and I were wondering how boredom trumped safety but we didn't bother asking, since the likelyhood of his parents driving Desmond is extremely low.