No, not supportive. My mother told me outright when DS was a baby that co-sleeping would kill him and breastfeeding on demand would kill me (her words - kill). She also doesn't agree with babywearing, not using chemicals in his bath, cloth nappying, letting DS decide when he wants to be toilet trained, baby-led weaning... pretty much everything. She always supported not smacking, but that's it. She also called me a bad mother for DS not sleeping through 12 hours at 2m old.

Mum is now a fan of co-sleeping. But that's it. She also gets cross that DS can climb on her sofa and reach the fruitbowl, so helps himself to fruit. Or the fruit on the sideboard. And I won't stop him. Why would I? Just because he turns down chocolate when she wants to give it. I only stop him at 5pm, so he'll eat his dinner at 6pm. Why not move stuff when DS is there if she doesn't like it? (He's there for a week or more at a time, usually, as Mum lives so far away we go for a full visit... I'm not policing him all week about a fruitbowl that she could move!)

MiL is of the opinion that he's my baby so I get to mother him how I want. I know she didn't really approve of me BFing him on the sofa when other people were around, but that's the only "problem" we've had.