How to deal with preggo SIL?
I just had my son 3 months ago. I think that my husband and I are doing a pretty damn good job.
However, I think that my SIL is trying to do ANYTHING in her power to be "better" than me. On purpose. She has this type of personality so it is pretty definite that she is trying to make me feel as if anything I do, she is going to make a point to do it better.
She is now apx. 5 months pregnant…first baby. Anytime we go out together and I am picking up things for my son (i.e diapers) she says something like "oh, I heard that organic diapers don’t have chlorine in them so I am going to use those"…even though she has already bought a bunch of non-organic clothes and baby shampoos and such so using organic diapers is use-less in her situation. She is just saying things like this to make it sound like she is "doing something better" than me.
Another example. Last night my brother, my SIL, and myself all went out to the mall (with my son) to do some last minute shopping. I drove. She says "when I have my baby I am not ever going to take her out in the car…only to the doctors because it is soo dangerous out on the road". She said this because I was bringing my son out…as I always do…in the car!
Then she will always ask me what I think of "this and that" and then completely ignore my answer…almost like I am giving her unwanted advice that she doesn’t want to hear….even though she asked…I swear she just asks to hear my answer so that later she can come up with "something better" that she is going to do…. LOL
Now she is the type of person that doesn’t listen to anyone. No matter what you say…it goes in one ear and out the other….how do I deal with this?
Another thing she said yesterday that I just thought about. She knows that my husband and I had a ton of money saved up for our son in a bank account before he was born. We had to drain that account when we unexpectedly had to move while I was 8 months pregnant and needed the money to have a place to live. So now she is always saying how she has ALL this money already saved up for their baby and how ALL of her money goes to her baby…I feel like she is trying to throw a dig out at me because we had to use the money for a place to live.
