So for context my in laws are… something. I might go in detail in another post when it’s more relevant. Anyway. They also live pretty close, unlike my family, so they come to babysit our preschooler and our baby for a few hours every month or so so that my husband and I can have some time to ourselves. They always claimed to love it since they get to spend time with their grandkids (we don’t stop them for spending time with them, they just never want to do any activity we suggest with them. Whatever. If they want to babysit from time to time it’s a win/win, right?
Yesterday we were gone from about 6 pm to 10 pm. When we came back, preschooler wasn’t asleep yet (typical, honestly we expected it and warned them she might just play with her stuffies in her bed after lights out, it’s fine). Baby was sleeping in his bed, good. But MIL stormed off as soon as we walked in and hasn’t answered texts all day (she’s usually on her phone all day). We just learned why:
Baby woke up during the evening.
That’s it. When we left he was ready for bed but we had told them he probably would wake up at around 8. He always does. We had prepared a bottle (two, in fact, in case they needed it). He’s an easy baby; when he wakes up during the evening, we just give him the bottle and put him back to bed. It’s that simple. MIL did that, baby went back to sleep like he always does, but for some reason she said it was asking too much of her, we clearly don’t feed him enough and next time to give something to the baby before they get there to make sure he doesn’t wake up. What???
She had babysat him before by the way. He’s less than 6 months old.
Needless to say, we’ll be looking at other options for babysitting from now on.
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Wow, just wow! A 6 month old needed a bottle. Imagine that?! You even prepared it for her ahead of time. Next time she offers to watch them so you can have a date night or asks why you guys never have them over to babysit anymore, just tell her that it seemed so strenuous for her last time and with her advancing age, you just didn’t want to burden them anymore.