Sunday 4 September 2011

And the judging begins

So my aunt decided to come and spend my last weeks of my maternity leave with us. Which means she wants us to be travelling and doing things, so I end up spending less time with my baby or getting things sorted before I go back to work. It also means having someone next to us judging and making critical comments about everything we do. Co-sleeping- "Oh, its going to be hard to get her out of that." BF- "I don't really like seeing women breastfeeding in public, I only breastfed mine till 6 months, there's no point doing it any longer. BLW- "She looks so funny eating food like that. " and at a restaurant to a waiter " Oh sorry for the mess, she feeds herself, that's why" hmmm if anything, I should do the apologizing, not her, and baby feeding herself has nothing to do with it. Babywearing- "Oh you do prefer that, you must get tired, you probably won't be doing that for long now" "Oh, she only wants to be carried by mummy, doesn't she" That and, leaving papers, cables, laptops, etc within reach of baby, and she keeps leaving the gate open. The only time she closed it, baby was already in the sling.

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