MIL invited us over so that her friends could meet our baby. I agreed as it was only going to be an hour. My MIL always walks off with my little one, now 10 months. It drives me crazy but I’ve tried to acknowledge that she’s probably just trying to bond with her grandbaby. Yesterday not only did she walk off to the other room, I heard her say to one of her friends “here you take him” and handed him to her friend and her friend went outside with my baby! I vented to my husband the whole drive home and then some. I immediately called them back inside and said it’s because baby doesn’t have sunscreen and that we should know where he is (which I’m sure my MIL didn’t hear). It was just super irresponsible. My little dude is sooooo young still and to just give him to some random person that may not even have any experience with babies boggles my mind. She didn’t even ask. Just “here take him”. Wtf. I feel like she’s always disregarded boundaries, always wants to do things her way, but this is my baby.
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I would just be honest: “ please don’t take the baby out of my sight without telling me where you are going to go, also please do not hand him off to anyone else without asking me if it is OK first.”