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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. This is slightly different than the topic but I want to keep it together so you all know some background information. As other PP said about bonding, I paid more attention when MIL came last weekend like usual. I thought she didn't have enough time spent with DD so maybe it is why she went to the daycare to see and play with DD. But turn out that she didn't even play with DD much when she visited us last Saturday. She was with us from 4pm to 10pm. DD woke up at 5pm and went to sleep at 9:30pm. The whole time there, she just played or talked to DD a little, like 5 to 10 minutes every hour (estimate). Most of the time she spent reading her newspapers she brought along. I had to keep DD(20 month old) occupied most of the time when I wasn't doing some chores.(DH was working on his car outside until dinner time that day, fyi). Do you think MIL doesn't want to play with DD because I am there? Do I need to leave the house for her to be comfortable to play with DD? (although this sounds ridiculous to me). She rarely joins us when we play. Is it why she rather visit daycare to see DD?

When she was at my house, she put the food she made in the bowl for us but I said 'I don't feed DD 2 hours before dinner (some little snack allow) because DD doesn't eat well if she is half full and wake up at night being often being hungry'.  She said 'but you have to feed something her when it is late'. It is 30 minutes later than usual dinner time. After DD had done with dinner for about 15mins. I asked her if she wanted milk. She said yes so I gave her a 1 cup of milk. She drank 2/3 of it and stopped, didn't want it anymore.(MIL was next to DD the entire dinner time.)  MIL immediately took the cup and hold it up against DD's mouth to make her drink but DD leaned her head back and refused drinking it. I was right there next to DD waiting for her to be done to wash her hand. I didn't say anything to MIL but asked DD "are you done" and when she nodded, I picked her up to go wash her hand and face. Should I have said something like "she doesn't want anymore, she has enough mom"  or "she has enough, don't force her" instead of what I did?

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