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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oy. She sounds really annoying.

I would push back a little more on the absurd stuff—“what an absurd suggestion” etc.”

As for the name thing, teach your child from day one that “this is grandma! This is your grandma First name, she loves you so much!” etc.  Just don’t play along, and make it clear to your DH that this matters to you—and that his mom is hurting your relationship with you by being so ridiculous. Remind him that she is using up your goodwill before the baby is even here.

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On the flip side, OP will be using up her "outrage" on something trivial.  Let the pissing match begin.   :roll:

The bottom line is that a mom who's confident in her role as mom WILL NOT care about this.  [/quote]

This has nothing to do with confidence and everything to do with a clueless and overbearing MIL. My MIL told similar jokes and I was NOT pleased.  It wnded up with strict limits being placed on her visits when the baby was a newborn because her boundary-crossing comments 1) aggravated at a time I did not need it; and 2) indicated that she would cross boundaries in other ways (ie not respecting our safety/parenting choices, like sleeo safety.)

This MIL needs to learn sooner rather than later that OP has limits. That will set them up for a good relationship where MIL knows her place ... as grandma, not mama. [/quote]

[b]Someday you will have a DIL..[/b].[/quote]

And it sounds like the PPs with difficult MILs will actually know how to be respectful to their DILs! [/quote]

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