WaitingonMyBabyBoye
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My fiance of 6 years and I are expecting our first child, a boy, due any day now. His mother and father are absolutely amazing people and we recently just purchased a home right down the street from them. My fiance's brother's girlfriend, who lives right around the corner from us, just had a baby in September. From the day the baby came home from the hospital, my fiance's mother has had something to suggest about everything to her son's girlfriend. The baby was colic for a month and she suggested ways other than what the baby's doctor was telling them to do and she got upset when they didnt take her advice. She told the baby's mother how the baby should be in sleepers at night and when the baby's mother told her that she chooses another way to dress her baby at night, she got offended and sent her daughter around the house with a bag of sleepers she purchased for the baby. Now that the baby is teething and almost 4 months old she has been hinting to the baby's mother about how the baby should have a onesie under everything she wears. I have gotten comments already about how I'm getting my house ready for the baby's arrival. I am 37 weeks and put the baby's bassinett and bouncer together and washed all his clothes. His mother came in last night and noticed the pack and play and said "wow, you put that together already?" ALREADY? Is it so wrong to have something ready for when the baby gets here? I am going back to work 6 weeks after I have the baby and since my fiance's mother doesnt work, she is taking the baby while I work so the baby will be in her care for a while. I just feel as if she thinks that I'm going into this blind-sighted with no idea of what I'm doing. Yes, I'm a first-time mother but I'm ready for this. She was once a first-time mother too. Is there anything I can do, without be rude or harsh to let her know that I am the parent and I'm not always going to take her advice??