<font color="ff0000">*PULL HAIR IN DESPARATION*</font>
I really dunno what to say or what to do. My mum actually called up my MIL and complained to her that I refused to heed her advice in giving Yingxin salt and soy sauce etc. My mum wanted my MIL to give me a piece of her mind cos my mum thought that I may have to give her face and listen to her.
Lucky thing was my MIL respected my instructions I gave her for cooking porridge and no further questions were asked.
Didn't expect my mum to do that!! I really don't understand why she has to harp on this issue constantly and kept on nagging and saying that I am restricting her growth by not adding salt and soy sauce into her food.
She kept insisting that the porridge I cooked is very bland (which is not cos I used chicken/fish bones or scallap with other veg for the stock and I also added at least 3 kinds of ingredients) and that adding salt and soy sauce would make it taste better!!
I have already explained to her that TASTE is not so important in babies as in adults and yingxin is also not fussy too. She is taking her solids well and the blood test has proved that she is very well nourished.
I showed my mum chinese articles about not adding salt/soy sauce into babies food as their system is not as well developed. I also explained to her that taking salt will lead to hypertension blah blah blah and lead to kidney failure....
I also told her there are many cases of obese kids due to too much good food and oily/saltish food
Just because she has seen chubbier kids, she expects Yingxin to be chubby too!!
Though her weight gain is slow, she is ok in other aspects. Most importantly, Yingxin is healthy and my mum recognised this fact BUT she WANS her to be HEALTHY AND CHUBBY AT THE SAME TIME!!!!
I told my mum this can't be forced and is also partly due to genetic makeup. And every baby developed differently and it's unfair for her to make comparisions!!
Despite all these, she still cannot understand and kept putting the blame on me say ALL BECAUSE OF ME AND THAT I DUNNO HOW TO REAR BABIES!!!!
She said that last time when I was 6 months old, she was already giving me chwee kueh and bread dipped in milo and whatnot rubbish!!!
I told her this is her method in rearing her child and I have MY OWN METHOD in rearing MY child.....
sigh.....she still dun get it, still call me on alternate days to keep "reminding" me that I SHOULD add salt blah blah blah
I dunno how many times I have lost my patience with her liao. Also gave her the ultimatum, threatend her that if she kept on saying all these which I dun like to hear and which I will not follow, I will throw her out of my house, change my locked and forever refused her into my place.
ALL THESE DOESN'T WORK AT ALL