Mother-in-Law Refers to Granddaughter as ‘My Baby’

A new mom says her mother-in-law has begun referring to the baby as “my baby” — and it’s beginning to wear on her nerves.

In a post published on Reddit, she writes: “Me and my partner have a young baby. My MIL refers to the baby as ‘my baby.’ This seemed to bother my partner in the beginning more than me so we thought about how we can address it.”

“It happened again a few days ago and as we have planned, my partner said, ‘But I’m your baby! [Baby’s name] is your grandbaby!’ since we planned to make a gentle correction without too much drama,” she adds.

But her mother-in-law didn’t take the correction well.

“To this, my MIL replied with, ‘I will call the baby whatever I want.’ It was in sort of a mocking way. My partner then said, ‘We want relationships to be clear to [baby]. We don’t want to confuse.’ MIL laughs and dismisses, saying she even calls her dog her baby and that it will not be confusing.”

Now, she writes, “The ‘my baby’ thing bothers me too.”

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Other Reddit users are weighing in, with one writing, “To be honest the real issue isn’t her calling your baby ‘my baby,’ the issue is her complete disregard for your partners boundaries. Your partner made it clear that they didn’t like it and gave a reason why and MIL just steamrolled it and made it clear she doesn’t care how your partner feels about it and that’s not okay.”

Added another: “That was an expert steamrolling she just did for a simple request. Your partner said to stop, she brushed it off and doubled down, so time for consequences.”