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My in-laws were watching our boys this weekend as my wife and I battled the flu. We went to go pick them up and when we got there my 4 month old was crying. I noticed an empty bottle on the chair next to my MIL and figured she had just fed him. Right about that time my 2 year old comes running in screaming "I go pee-pee, I go pee-pee Gam Gam" I offered to take him to the bathroom but his reply was a staunch "No, Gam-Gam takes me to potty" So I took my 4 month old and let my MIL take my oldest to the bathroom. 4 month old was still crying, and so I said to my wife, well she only fed him 4 oz, let me make 2 more since he usually eats 6. Hand the 4 month old to her and go make another 2 oz of formula.
Let me back up slightly. My 4 month old usually eats 6 oz every 2-3 hours (he's a fatty). But he used to only eat 2-4 ozs. So we have two bottle sizes, one that holds up to 4 ozs, and one that holds up to 8 oz. And by "holds 4 oz" I mean there's measurements up the sides of the bottle that show each oz mark up to 4 oz, where there's a large line and a disclaimer that says above it "to prevent spillage, do not fill over this line".
Anyways, so my MIL walks out of the bathroom and sees my wife feeding our 4mo old another bottle and says "I just fed him 6 oz 10 minutes ago, he should be fine". To which I reply "Oh, sorry, I saw the empty 4 oz bottle and assumed that's what you had fed him". And she replies "Yah, you can fill those all the way and they hold 6 oz".
Hmm..
That 4 oz tic is pretty far up the bottle, it just gets narrow from that point on... So I just shrugged and said "o ok, gotcha" and didn't say anything else. About 10 minutes later it's still bugging me because it just doesn't look/feel right. So I went into the kitchen, grabbed an 8oz bottle, filled it up to the 6 oz mark with water and poured it into the 4oz bottle. Sure enough it overflows. It probably holds 5.75 oz if you fill it to the very top, but then there is absolutely no room to add 3 scoops of formula and the valve thing the bottle requires without overflowing it. Which means she's not adding enough water that the formula requires to mix properly. Not sure this is that big of a deal, but then my MIL walks in while I'm standing there holding an overflowing 4 oz bottle.
"What, you didn't trust me? I've raised 2 kids on formula, I know exactly what I'm doing"
"Not that I didn't trust you, it just seemed like the bottle wouldn't hold 6 oz, so I wanted to check for myself. That way if it did, I wouldn't have to always clean the 8 oz bottles we have..."
Then she literally starts crying and says "It really hurts my feelings that you don't trust me and think I can't take care of my grandkids" and leaves the kitchen.
"No it's not that.." I tried to call after her as she walks away crying... wtf....
2 minutes later my wife walks in. "That was incredibly rude of you to try to prove my mom wrong and make her look bad infront of everybody. You don't always have to prove everybody wrong" Then she storms out.
Am I in the twilight zone right now?! Everybody? I'm alone in the kitchen.. Well I was anyways. I was just wanting to make sure that our son was getting the proper mix of water/formula for the nutrition he requires and now I'm a giant ##### apparently.
We didn't really talk much the rest of the night as it was pretty late already and I fell asleep putting the boys down. Wife hasn't said much this morning before I left for work. What a trainwreck.
TL/DR: I managed to make my MIL cry, piss off my wife, all because I doubted a bottle designed to hold 4 oz could actually hold 6 oz.
Let me back up slightly. My 4 month old usually eats 6 oz every 2-3 hours (he's a fatty). But he used to only eat 2-4 ozs. So we have two bottle sizes, one that holds up to 4 ozs, and one that holds up to 8 oz. And by "holds 4 oz" I mean there's measurements up the sides of the bottle that show each oz mark up to 4 oz, where there's a large line and a disclaimer that says above it "to prevent spillage, do not fill over this line".
Anyways, so my MIL walks out of the bathroom and sees my wife feeding our 4mo old another bottle and says "I just fed him 6 oz 10 minutes ago, he should be fine". To which I reply "Oh, sorry, I saw the empty 4 oz bottle and assumed that's what you had fed him". And she replies "Yah, you can fill those all the way and they hold 6 oz".
Hmm..
That 4 oz tic is pretty far up the bottle, it just gets narrow from that point on... So I just shrugged and said "o ok, gotcha" and didn't say anything else. About 10 minutes later it's still bugging me because it just doesn't look/feel right. So I went into the kitchen, grabbed an 8oz bottle, filled it up to the 6 oz mark with water and poured it into the 4oz bottle. Sure enough it overflows. It probably holds 5.75 oz if you fill it to the very top, but then there is absolutely no room to add 3 scoops of formula and the valve thing the bottle requires without overflowing it. Which means she's not adding enough water that the formula requires to mix properly. Not sure this is that big of a deal, but then my MIL walks in while I'm standing there holding an overflowing 4 oz bottle.
"What, you didn't trust me? I've raised 2 kids on formula, I know exactly what I'm doing"
"Not that I didn't trust you, it just seemed like the bottle wouldn't hold 6 oz, so I wanted to check for myself. That way if it did, I wouldn't have to always clean the 8 oz bottles we have..."
Then she literally starts crying and says "It really hurts my feelings that you don't trust me and think I can't take care of my grandkids" and leaves the kitchen.
"No it's not that.." I tried to call after her as she walks away crying... wtf....
2 minutes later my wife walks in. "That was incredibly rude of you to try to prove my mom wrong and make her look bad infront of everybody. You don't always have to prove everybody wrong" Then she storms out.
Am I in the twilight zone right now?! Everybody? I'm alone in the kitchen.. Well I was anyways. I was just wanting to make sure that our son was getting the proper mix of water/formula for the nutrition he requires and now I'm a giant ##### apparently.
We didn't really talk much the rest of the night as it was pretty late already and I fell asleep putting the boys down. Wife hasn't said much this morning before I left for work. What a trainwreck.
TL/DR: I managed to make my MIL cry, piss off my wife, all because I doubted a bottle designed to hold 4 oz could actually hold 6 oz.
