Infant care or MIL

I would prefer sending my baby to infant care when I return to work, but my MIL says she wants to look after her. I thought we could compromise and leave her in infant care for half the day, and let my MIL look after her for the second half of her day. She is insisting that she wants to look after my baby for the entire day. I am not comfortable with it because my FIL always shouts and curse/swear at home. And she also could not tell us what will happen to her daily marketing, because we are not comfortable to let her bring my baby out, especially to the wet market. Also, I'm not a big fan of my MIL. And a first time mum here. Very paranoid my baby will choose my MIL in future if they spend too much time together.

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No matter what others say,u make the ultimate decision for your child. As a parent,at the end of the day,no matter by whom ur child is taken care of by,ur child will always comes back to you.Even as a newborn ur baby knows who is the parent and who is not.Don overthink abt it.My children was taken care of by my parents and in law.They stil come back to us,their parents for any little thing. Yes I agree the environment might play a part in ur child's upbringing. My in laws also used harsh words.But none of my child picked up the words and used them.Thank God for that.But however,I save a lot of money for a full day infant as they volunteered to help me care for them while me n spouse at work.But eventually,i sent them to childcare when they reached 18 mths for them to start mingling ard with other kids their age. Talk things thru with ur spouse,hope things goes well for you.

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