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[quote=Anonymous]Thanks all - appreciate the support...and, well, yikes - it sounds like this is only going to get worse over time (or until SIL gets around to having a kid).

To answer some Qs:
- Yes, 1st and only grandchild.
- Yes, definitely has other boundary issues, and also narcissistic.
- Baby is 5months, EBF. I do hold him a lot (or have him in the Ergo), but honestly? I *like* holding him. He likes being held by me and DH and other similarly low-key people. He grimaces when MIL takes him, but then, we talk to him in a calm, normal voice, while she's of the super-highly animated high-pitched baby voice variety, so maybe it's that he objects to. I don't really feel that I need a break, and enjoy spending my time with him.
- I would love to visit less frequently, but DH is very close with FIL so we go over primarily to see him. DH is not very close at all with MIL, so I often get left with her and baby in the living room while he and FIL go off and do their thing.

Bottom line, I guess, is that I need to have a (very) frank conversation with DH about this. 
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