chris: im sorry to hear that ur baby is sick.. it must ache ur heart to see ur poor child so sick. i ve asthma myself and my mum +dad told me they were sooo sad last time as they stayed up all night to take care of me..
and bcos ive asthma (as well as eczema) , i ve decided not to let my baby try solids till 6th mth at least..
not too sure what triggers ur baby sickness, but ur MIL feeding him food (esp. prawn!! seafood is known be a common allergy) when he s still so young..
i know how it sucks to have prob with MIL. my own one likes to feed baby milk whenever he cries too last time. once he cries, it MUST be hunger n not tired/or just need a cuddle. i got so fed up with that , that i have a long good talk with my hubby. i told him to "educate' his mum on the proper milk intake for baby and not all cries are cues for milk. if not, i ll have a show down with her one day.
so he talked to her and although i know she knows this is mainly from me, i dun care. baby well-being is more impt. so now we made her write down the feeding timing (making sure that she waited at least 3-4 hrs before the next feed). dun think she too happy with this but think she bo bian cos we insist.
and she used to (actually now still do) nag how good BM is when i decided to wean my little one to FM. making me feel so sianz abt my decision. sigh. i was told to stop early cos ive asthma and studies shown that i may pass it on to baby hence i stopped. but think she dun understand this reason..
and now that she takes care of baby during the day, when i reached home aft work, eager to play with baby, she will still sit there in front of the baby n coo to him, takinghis attention away from me! i mean, u play with the baby whole day, evening at least let the mummy play with him before his bedtime at 8+pm right?
nowadays i got fed up and will just tell her" mother, i carry him hor, cos i miss him" and will sweep him to my room to play with him till he fell asleep
before i came back to work i was quite fed up with her till i m seriously considering infant care. cos i not sure if she knows how to take care of baby but since she s available i guess thats better than infant care. cos at least baby wont fall sick as easily as in an infantcare.
but still got drawbacks lah. every day aft work must think of way to play with baby W/o her interrfering. and till today, she still doesnt know how to bath the baby herself. that means my hubby /me /FIL got to take turns going to our house to help bath baby during lunch time! want to faint right? sigh
dun be upset. discuss with ur hubby n see if you can get him to talk to him, if not i ;ll suggest infant care rather than making urself so upset n also for baby well-being..