Aarrgh im so frustrated. It seems everytime I speak to my MIL she has come up with a new plan to take my DD to their place a plane trip away. My DD at 2.5 years old has never even had a sleep over anywhere, let alone us sending her off for 1+ weeks! We still sleep with her at night and she still wakes up once (if not more) wanting warm milk. All this I am happy doing but I don't believe she would get the same kind of treatment from them... even though they say they would. This is only a tiny part of the reason I dont want her going though cos I do know she wld survive without us.

My DHs sisters have always been happy to let their kids have sleep overs and holidays with MIL from a very early age so its just normal in their family I guess and they cant understand why we wont allow it. I wld be absolutely beside myself with worry (and not to mention boredom!!) if DD went away for even a couple nights! DH works away alot and im a SAHM so my DD is pretty much my world!

When I was booked in for a D&C in june and they were visiting they were really trying to pressure me into allowing them to have DD for the night after surgery. That wld have been absolutely horrible for me! I explained to MIL that I cldnt do it and that it wld feel like I was losing 2 babies that day (I was very hormonal and emotional!) and she just laughed at me.

I am lucky that my DH agrees with me but hes never the one that has to come up with reasons/excuses about why I dont want her leaving.

They do know that I dont want her leaving me but I think they think they will change my mind if they keep asking. My MIL has just called this morning and said in a few days my niece is coming through and can pick up DD and take her on the plane back to their place... then she joked she will try and have her home by christmas. She also had another plan that when my DH goes to work on a beautiful island in a couple weeks that she wld have DD then so I can go. IF we cld afford for me to go and if DH wasnt going to be working 7-6pm everyday then we wld want to take DD with us! Why cant MIL understand this?!

Im not a confrontational person so struggle to be straight up with people... I do know they know my feelings on it all though.

What can I say to her??!! Am I being silly about it all?? Can most parents say goodbye to their kids for a few days quite happily and think of it as a break?? I really cant let her go so if majority of u think im being silly then ill just have to accept that im way over protective! xx