hehe Rowellen I was coming in to post the same thing. Sue, your bub sleeps better than mine and he's nearly 16 months old
You will always get comments from somewhere, regardless of what you or your baby is doing. It does seem to hurt more when it comes from family, esp your own mum though. I agree with pp that sometimes they can feel (uneccessarily) defensive that you're making a different choice to them. I have found in my situation that the best way to manage it is to try to avoid discussing sleep altogether, unless with people I know will understand and be supportive and non-judgemental etc.
Could you try to gently educate her about normal baby development and sleep patterns? Or perhaps just say next time she askes that missy is 'sleeping through' - cause you're right, technically for her age, she is sleeping through.
My mum gave me the same comments regarding our co-sleeping with DD. Initially I let it bother me... then I realised it was none of her business!! I told her that we were very happy co-sleeping and that I was surprised that our sleeping arrangements concerned her at all. I continued to shrug off her negative comments and we co-slept very happily until DD was over 4. My mothers head just about spun around on her neck and exploded!!! Your doing a great job - do what suits you, your DH and your DD... and bugger everyone else!!
my mum is the same...DD still wakes once, if not twice a night, and after the first wake up she usually ends up in our bed because she won't go back to sleep in her cot. I'd rather have her snuggled in bed with me than spending 2 or 3 hours in the middle of the night trying to get her back to sleep in her cot!
I now just ignore her "advice", she thinks DD should be sleeping 7pm-7am too, and I feel like saying well you take her for a night and see how you go trying to do that!
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