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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here and apparently lurking inside my kind, sweet, soft spoken, go with the flow DH is a bit of a hardass.  Just talked to him and we're all straightened out for now at least.  He called his mom and said he was cancelling the trip since it was going to be a problem for me to breastfeed at her house (told her he hadn't even brought it up with me because it wasn't going to happen, which is a fib but he wanted to leave me out of it).  She backtracked and said I can nurse at her house, no problem, she just thought I'd want a break from breastfeeding for the weekend.  At this point, I don't know if that's true (she didn't breastfeed so she could honestly just not know that you can't take a weekend off from breastfeeding) or if her initial reason of the niece and nephews is true or if it's all just a cover for her dislike of breastfeeding.  Either way, DH told her not to even bring it up with me while we are there so it shouldn't be a topic for discussion.  If it becomes an issue, we can just bail and head back to the hotel as needed.  We're both kind of wishing he hadn't told me as now I'll be a bit on edge all weekend when I have to feed DD but I guess it's probably better I know, forewarned is forearmed and all that.[/quote]

What about the parents of the niece and nephew?  Did their mother breastfed them?  What did MIL do when they were babies?  Would their parents legitimately make the request for you to not even breastfed in the house with them in the house?  You might have another set of allies, or the opposite.

My sister and I are a united front when it comes to our parenting decisions whenever my parents disagree with our individual parenting choices (and our parents, while overall great, have had their moments re discipline, bedtimes, feedings, breastfeeding, childcare). I back her and she backs me.  Your MIL brought that SIL and BIL into the equation when she said you couldn't fed if their kids were in the house.  [/quote]

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