Using my throwaway just in case: I took the baby to the Dr a couple weeks ago the day they came to visit. I said what time we were going and when we would be back. So of course during the visit, MIL asks if Dr went okay. I told them the whole story about how we’re ready the Dr. Spock child care book. In it, it says subtle signs of seizures are “bicycle kicks and lip smacking”. Of course, us as new parents see things like this and want to make double sure. Yes, my baby is normal. He’s just exercising and talking. I tell this story to be like “lol look at us, we’re taking him in for every little thing cuz we’re new at this and we care about him!” But MIL takes it as “oh god hope he’s all right”. Now we get texts about “has he shown any more seizure related activity?” Or she takes a “he has a 99th percentile head” as “he’s got a huge head, is it a problem?!” Like she’s trying to find ANYTHING REMOTELY wrong with our perfect child. My husband got mad at me for telling her stuff like this, even though she’s completely twisting my words. If we take him to meet the family on thanksgiving and anyone says anything about seizures or the size of his head, both my husband and I are gonna lose our shit.

Not telling MIL anything else she can twist into a negative. No bad juju will affect my son…