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Classic mother in law quotes...What's yours?!

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manuka · 11/03/2007 16:06

Mine has just said this beauty - [with reference to 8month old dd who had woken from nap and was grizzling, clearly not going to go back to sleep] "Why don't you just leave her until she's screaming her head off?" !!! I thought that was a real corker and had to share that with you all!!!
She had in fact pooed herself and got stuck in a crazy position in her cot so on reflection I'm glad I didn't follow mil's advice.

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PavlovtheCat · 11/03/2007 16:09

on being told that 8 month old took first steps:
'DO NOT encourage this. Keep her inactive for as long as possible. You will be making a rod for your own back if she is mobile too soon..'
WTF?

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manuka · 11/03/2007 16:10

Hilarious!

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fryalot · 11/03/2007 16:10

xmil used to say (on a daily basis) "now, you know me, I'm not one to interfere, but....."

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McDreamy · 11/03/2007 16:14

I'm sure loads of people have had this one but the classic from about 12 weeks on when DC's are crying irritable etc - ">>>do you think it is because they are hungry, do you need to top him up, start weaning him?"

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LazyLine · 11/03/2007 16:15

When they were visiting and I ordered take-away (DS was a few weeks old) she said "Being lazy are we?"

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GhostOfMumsnet · 11/03/2007 16:15

i told my mil that i wouldn't be at dinner on christmas day
b/c my bil and just (and i mean just) started seeing a new girlfriend who happened to have bullied both me and my sister at primary and secondary school i was told i was
"breaking up her family".

i was 5months preg. and feeling like shit. the new girl had only been around for a couple of weeks!

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octopussyintummy · 11/03/2007 16:16

MIL - directed at me ...
'I was a perfect mother'

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FrannyandZooey · 11/03/2007 16:17

About my dp, her son, who has given up drinking, drugs, and all other naughtiness and become a fantastic reliable father:

"I would like to have my son back and not this bloody vicar"



silly mare

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PavlovtheCat · 11/03/2007 16:18

LOL, bloody mother-in-laws!

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PavlovtheCat · 11/03/2007 16:18

Franny! well done your DP!

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McDreamy · 11/03/2007 16:19

LL

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ejt1764 · 11/03/2007 16:24

I have 3:

After ds's birth, she said:
'Thank you for giving me another baby to cuddle'

After I suffered a mmc last year which wasn't detected until the dating scan at 13 weeks, MIL said:

'Oh, you had one of those phantom pregnancies did you?"

Secondly, after various procedures had gone wrong and I'd had to have a D&C and bled lots, she said:

'We haven't told anybody in the family - we don't want them to think you can't carry a child'

nice one ... needless to say I don't go to see them very often - if dh wants to go and take ds with him, he's welcome, but I don't want to go and put myself anywhere near the bullying comments - which only come when dh is out of the room .... funny that!

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quanglewangle · 11/03/2007 16:24

This isn't a mil quote but have to share it as I still can't believe she said it.

Friend (?): Why don't you apply to go on 'Ten Years Younger'? I don't think they would have me as I already look 10 years younger.

Me: Gob-smacked silence.

Thanks, carry on, hijack over. I feel better for that.

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ejt1764 · 11/03/2007 16:26

would this be an ex-friend by any chance?

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sophiewd · 11/03/2007 16:27

Step mil said to DD when she refused beef stew at lunch but happily had ham, potatoes and carrots, a lot better than the slop[ your mother gives you, needless to say was annoyed that DH didn't stick up for me.

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Megglevache · 11/03/2007 16:33

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ejt1764 · 11/03/2007 16:35

wow Megg - I thought my mil was a bitch - but yours just tops it!

do you still talk to her?

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PavlovtheCat · 11/03/2007 16:36

Meg - whats the third, you said three?
WHAT a cow

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calvemjoe · 11/03/2007 16:36

SIL is 7 months pg, MIL saw a friend she hadn't seen for years and said 'yes this is DD, she's giving me my 1st Grandchild'. And the two I've had??

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LazyLine · 11/03/2007 16:36

I can see this thread running for a while....

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PavlovtheCat · 11/03/2007 16:36

I think I love my MIL now...

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Califrau · 11/03/2007 16:38

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LazyLine · 11/03/2007 16:38

Meggle -

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ejt1764 · 11/03/2007 16:39

califrau ....

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Megglevache · 11/03/2007 16:39

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