So the baby can't have Easter Eggs then?

Permission to use the bangy head man please?

Mr K had to break the news to MIL that no, her grandson would not be weaned in time for Easter. Cue discussion of how Mr K was weaned at 3 months old and he's still alive and Kat would have been weaned then too. Why are we waiting so long? It's because we don't want her to feed her grandson obviously or <insert conspiracy theory here>

Mr K finally convinced her that 26 weeks was the guideline and that is what we would be following. 

She then said "But he can still have Easter Egg can't he?"

I daren't even mention BLW around her....

I am expecting the same conversation with MIL tonight.... <sigh>

Oh dear - sounds like my mil. She took great pride in telling me that my sil was weaning at 4.5 months (J was almost 18 months by then) & wouldn't it be lovely that SHE would be able to feed her instead of his mother 'hogging all the feeding times' . So she obviously thought I hogged allt he feeding times with J until she was 6 months old & a lot more after that too because I breast fed J until she was 13 months!

Oh and she mentioned the fact that Bratski would have been weaned at 16 weeks as well. Yes he was, as that what the official guidelines were back in 2003/4. And I know it's not done him any harm, but times they are a'changing, silly woman!

He didn't have sweets until he was past one as I didn't want him to develop too much of a sweet tooth. We plan on doing the same with Toby, so that should go down like a lead balloon!

Why do grandparents get so hung up on giving babies sweets?

headbang away...

can't she just give an easter toy or something? why chocolate? crazy lady lol.

Ah, yes. Chocolate, that well known nutritious foodstuff that MUST be given to babies/children/people.

Have you thought more about my cunning plan of training Bratski to intervene when the inevitable happens?!

You meanie! A leeetle bit of chocolate? No?

Thank goodness I have PILs who are just going to send us money for G for Easter as they realise she's too little for chocolate - I knew when they said this that there would be loads of Hitched MILs who want to give the babies Easter Eggs!

G's nearly ready for weaning but chocolate, cakes etc will not exist for her for a while yet.

Mazzy-moo:

Ah, yes. Chocolate, that well known nutritious foodstuff that MUST be given to babies/children/people.

Have you thought more about my cunning plan of training Bratski to intervene when the inevitable happens?!

 

I think Bratski will be very co-operative. I told him chocolate was very, very bad for little babies and he is to shout at anyone who gives T chocolate and as a reward, he can have the chocolate. He was rather enthusiastic though - he swiped my Maltesar bunny as "I thought you were going to give it to Toby..." He only got the ears though!

God only knows. My MIL ordered a bed for their spare room for Noah to sleep in when he stay over there. A 3/4 size bed! He's 16 weeks old FFS - and not staying there til I stop BFing him, so hopefully not til after he is 1.

smarties:

God only knows. My MIL ordered a bed for their spare room for Noah to sleep in when he stay over there. A 3/4 size bed! He's 16 weeks old FFS - and not staying there til I stop BFing him, so hopefully not til after he is 1.

 

My mil keep saying she can't wait until I allow J to stay over for a 'week or so' during her summer holidays. She's two. I don't think so!

maryline:

You meanie! A leeetle bit of chocolate? No?

It makes a great 1st birthday present!

No, I know I am a touch paranoid about chocolate as I have worked with children who have Haribo for breakfast because they won't eat cereal and they think chocolate is a food group! I can see Bratski sneaking T some before he is one though!

Katamari:

Mazzy-moo:

 

Ah, yes. Chocolate, that well known nutritious foodstuff that MUST be given to babies/children/people.

 

Have you thought more about my cunning plan of training Bratski to intervene when the inevitable happens?!

 

 

 

 

I think Bratski will be very co-operative. I told him chocolate was very, very bad for little babies and he is to shout at anyone who gives T chocolate and as a reward, he can have the chocolate. He was rather enthusiastic though - he swiped my Maltesar bunny as "I thought you were going to give it to Toby..." He only got the ears though!

 

Well, you can't fault his enthusiasm, can you?! Although some tweeking may be required. You can't have him snaffling YOUR chocolate now, can you?

Noooooo, you have it all wrong! You say "of course the baby would like an Easter egg" - and then snaffle the chocolate yourself!

My MIL is another one who thinks chocolate/sweets are one of the food groups. She went on for ages when I said E couldn't have an Easter egg, especially as he wasn't even weaned. What annoys me more, is that 5 years on we now have 2 boys who will get eggs, but my SIL's daughter will get something else as SIL doesn't want her to have chocolate yet. I was mean, but SIL isn't. Doesn't seem very fair to me.