How do I approach this??
So my sister in law is helping watch my little one (3 months) since I started back to work. Normally my mom would have my baby, but she’s had a major surgery and is still recovering so my sister in law is helping. I appreciate the help so much and I really don’t want to offend, but she keeps telling me that it’s okay if she’s fussy, she doesn’t mind holding her off until I get home because I’m nursing. Well my baby really is not a fussy baby, even when she’s waking up she doesn’t fuss she just doesn’t. So if she’s fussing it means she’s hungry. And she has been stubborn about taking bottles, but she takes it for my husband. So last week she was crazy fussy and my dad was home from work and he ended up bringing the baby to me at work because they just couldn’t get her to settle, so my sister in law decided that that’s what we would do instead of fighting her with the bottle, she would just bring the baby to me, which is fine, I’m able to do that instead of pump. But today just before they normally would have brought her to me, they text me and said she was asleep so they wouldn’t bring her to me. I know she doesn’t nap long ever so that means she’s going to be awake in less than an hour. And then I still have 4 hours at work and it sounds to me like they’re just going to “hold her off” until I get home. I understand if I’m going to be home in 20 minutes to maybe an hour that she will be fine, but I am hella stressed thinking that they just aren’t even trying to feed my baby for several hours, not to mention that instead of fussing for hours and not napping, she should be eating and having another nap in the afternoon. I don’t want to offend and insist things be done my way and I know this is such a short phase of life but gosh I have another 3 months to get through like this before she’s old enough to have solids which will make it easier. When I get home from work I just let her nurse and nurse and nurse which she does pretty much from 6pm on. (She did this even when I was home with her so that’s not new). I just want to make sure she’s getting fed without being crazy!
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