Sorry, please don't be offended anyone, but I just need to rant...

So Rocco will be 4 months old next week. We were at my parents' house last a few weekends ago and my sister was saying Rocco would probably love to eat cereal. I said nah, I want to wait until his next appointment to see what the pediatrician recommends. She was like oh please! You can't always go by what the doctor says. I was feeding my kids cereal way before him.
My mom always pushed her to feed them early and I can remember her being the same way I was, wanting to wait. My mom, this time for some reason agrees with me. She told my sister to leave me alone about it.

So today my parents, sister, brother in law and their kids all came over and we went to a festival here in the town I live in. We ate dinner afterwards and stopped at an ice cream shop on the way home. I ran into a neighbor at the ice cream shop whose little girl is a week older than Rocco. She was feeding her ice cream! Chocolate ice cream! I went outside and told my sister and I said doesn't it seem a little young to be feeding her ice cream? She was like yeah probably a little. I walked over to where my husband was standing and I hear my sister say, Well, Rocco could be eating cereal right now and you're not doing that, so who are you to judge your neighbor?? I told her to shut up. Then my Dad was like give Rocco some ice cream! (he was joking) I said actually last night I had some vanilla ice cream with peanut butter swirled in it and put a teeny tiny bit on my finger and put it in Rocco's mouth just to see what he would do. My sister was like Peanut butter is the LAST thing you should have given him! OMG! I was like, um I only gave him the vanilla ice cream part. She said it's all swirled in, it doesn't matter! I told her to shut up again. I said, he's perfectly content with breast milk. She was like it's not about him being content, it's about introducing foods to him, because if you don't, he won't want to eat them later. (Which I've never heard. And if that's true, it's CERTAINLY not true at 4 months. I've never heard of a doctor RUSHING you to feed a baby solids at 4 months) Then she started going on and on about how her kids were eating vegetables at 4 months...blah blah blah. "You're probably going to go to your pediatrician and they're going to wonder why you haven't given him cereal yet!" I sat down next to my Dad and said, she was a first time mother once and didn't know shit about raising a baby and I can remember her being the same exact way. She came over to me and was like what did you say? what did you say? repeat it. Tell me. What did you say? I was like NOTHING! She leaned over to me and was like you have been driving me freakin NUTS calling me all the time about baby shit since you got pregnant with him. I stood up and told my husband I wanted to leave. We walked back to our house and eventually my sister came back to get her purse and I didn't say a word to her.

She is SUCH a fucking bitch! I can't stand when she does this! I can CLEARLY remember when her first kid was little and my mom was trying to push her to give her cereal and she fought with my mother. CLEARLY remember! But if I brought that up, I'm sure she would deny it. She's so fucking stubborn and thinks she knows EVERYTHING because she has three kids. I would like the follow the recommendations of the pediatrician! Why is that so fucking wrong?!?!?!? And I know a lot of people feed their babies early, and I don't judge. As a matter of fact, when I was pregnant, I thought I would do it too, but I'm just taking my time. What's the big fucking rush??? God, I hate her sometimes SO BAD!!!

I hate to be like this, because she's my sister and I love her of course, but if she's going to try to tell me how to raise my son, I'm just not going to call her. If she wants to see her nephew, she can come over to my parents house when we happen to be there. I'm NOT going out of my way to contact her at all. No texts messages, nothing. I'm done. She went way over the line today.

Ignore her hun, Rocco is YOUR baby, you make the decisions end of. You will give your LO solids when he is ready, not when your sister decides it's time. She owes you an apology, end of.

Oh noooo! I don't get all this pushing to feed a 4 month old solids, why would you unless you really had to?
Hope you get things resolved with your sister though...

I would clearly say breast milk is all your baby needs till he is 6 months old and 4 months is abit young to be introducing solids as he little stomach would have problem digesting it. Your sister needs to learn to keep her nose out of your business and let you make your childs dicisions !!!!

I agree four months is too early to introduce solids. Everyone now says sixth months minimum. Stick to your guns hon you're in the right.

Ignore her!If your little man is happy on his milk then I think youre totally right to hold off on feeding him solids yet.
I think maybe your sister needs to remember that what was right for her babies isnt necessarily going to be what is right for yours xxx

Thanks ladies!
I was talking to my Mom today and I said to her what pisses me off the most about all of it is that it's not a matter of who's right and who's wrong. I've NEVER once argued with her that it's not "right" to feed a baby at 4 months. I've only said that I don't want to yet. But she just keeps pushing the issue. It's like she's trying to get me to cave and just do it. Then she would be able to say I told you so and have the satisfaction of thinking I did it because she said to.

Hun I know how you feel. People sticking their noses in left right and centre uneededly. Ignore her, YOUR Rocco's mummy. What you say goes. xxx

now i don't want to say much on your sister ! shes your sister ... and your only really alowed to shout about ya own hey
its a diffo matter when someone else does ! lol

but basically dont get yourself stressed .... if you see her ... that will give her amunition on the subject she is niggling about
just be like ok thanks for the advice then infront of her do YOUR own thing in a smug way ... maybe make her feel the inderior one
up to you but it cant go on
i know i have sisters
xxx

its a family thing I guess, we have folk saying oh can I let him try this or that and I was like NO WAY he's a 4 month old premature baby for goodness sake!

the way I like to see it tho, she may just want to feel a part of his life by sharing in his feeding experiences but has to respect that its your decision to make. Whats your mum's opinion this time around? x