Fatso

[Magali]

That is the comment my grandma made to my sister about my dd, who is 6 months now, but was 3 months old in the picture.   I could handle chubby.....but fatso?  Who calls a 3 month old baby fatso?  OK, grandma is 90 and well known for her mean weight comments, or calling people piggy at the table, or glaring at you if you have seconds....but I am floored that of all the nice things she could have said about my dd, she picked fatso.  I know it shouldn't bug me considering the source, but it does.

[poorlittlefish]

I hear ya.  That would bother me too.

My dad is OBSESSED with overweight people.  He always says something if he see's one, points them etc.  My DD is 3 1/2, 39 inches tall and has weighed 31lbs for over a year so, a beanpole.  He says things all the time about how if she eats too much she is going to get a fat butt!.  We see them only once per month or so, so I don't say anything to him but it really bothers me.

Why the heck do people say stuff like that?  What are they thinking??

[MJB]

Eh, I call my babies piggies and the like. I've probably even called them fatsos. Babies are supposed to be fat! 

[Magali]

See, that's the point!  A chubby baby isn't a bad thing, but trust me, Grandma doesn't use fatso as a term of endearment.  Her exact words were "oh she is so cute....but fatso".  I can just imagine she is thinking my poor daughter is going to grow up and be a fatso just like me.

Eh, I'm over it now...oftentimes posting something here makes mestop obsessing about it :)

[muslimahmama]

Your grandma sounds EXACTLY like my sisters mother-in-law (who we stayed with for 3-4 months when I was pregnant/after baby was born) She glares at us while eating, scoffs if anyone decides to have seconds, etc..

my 3 year old is 41 inches tall and 40 pounds, he is SOLID, not fat at all.. just big. She has a cocktail at exactly 5pm, along with nuts and crackers, etc. We were over at her house, she gave my son ONE cashew and refused to let him eat anything else because he doesn't "Doesn't need to be snacking before dinner, look at fat he is"

Now, my little baby is exclusively breastfed. I AM very overweight. I admit it. My baby is in the 75th percentile (or was then.. his 6 month check up is tomorrow) when he was 4 months old, she told HIM that he needs to stop drinking my breast milk because it's full of fat and he was getting too big to hold. I was in the other room (she was alone with the baby) and just let it go..

She does stuff that makes my blood boil, but I rarely comment on it. I can chose if I visit her or not. She 'discretely' pinches the baby's thighs to see how fat they are. She has said he is too fat and she can't hold him on her hip like she did with her son (maybe her waist has gotten thicker since then..??) She is honestly a very, very judgemental person.

I actually think it's pretty funny, once I get home. She is 75, she has a 39 year old son.. she never wanted kids, but her husband told her if she doesn't have a baby he will leave her. Her son (my brother in law) was 3pounds 8ounces and was in the hospital for 3 weeks.. she says he was full term and totally healthy? But brags about his small size. Seriously. He was 41 inches tall when he was 6, my son is 3 and that tall.. she sees this as a flaw.

Well.. I can go on about her as if she was my own MIL haha. Old people can say the craziest stuff and well.. they can get by with it. I wouldn't dream of confronting her!