New Mom Says She Feels ‘Physically Ill and Queasy’ When Her In-Laws Hold Her Baby
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- A woman who recently gave birth says that watching her in-laws with her baby “gives me a huge pit in my stomach”
- In a viral Reddit post, she expressed frustrations with their behavior, worrying that it will only continue
- “Whenever I am holding my baby they will just sit there and stare at us like vultures until they get to hold him again,” she writes
A woman who recently gave birth says she “hates” seeing her husband’s parents interact with their baby.
In an anonymous post shared to Reddit, she writes: “Watching my in laws interact with my baby makes me feel physically ill and queasy.”
“I wish I was being dramatic but it actually gives me a huge pit in my stomach and I can’t relax until they are gone,” she continues in the post. “I thought it would get better as my baby gets older but he’s 6 months now it might be worse than when he was a newborn.”
She adds: “Whenever I am holding my baby they will just sit there and stare at us like vultures until they get to hold him again.”
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She writes that recently, her mother-in-law thought the baby was hungry — so she heated up a bottle of breastmilk without asking, then asked her husband (the woman’s father-in-law) if he wanted to feed the baby.
“I had to be like um actually he breastfeeds when I’m here so I will feed him,” she writes, adding that the couple is “overbearing and socially inept but they love my son and I know rationally that it is good for him to have involved grandparents.”
She ends her post by expressing her frustrations, writing, “I don’t want to feel this way, but it seems like every time I relax and let them in a little, they just keep pushing and take things way too far.”
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Others on Reddit are offering their own experiences in similar situations.
Writes one commenter: “I feel this so hard – I’ve always found my in-laws annoying but since having a baby, every interaction with them makes my skin crawl. Every time they come over I just feel like I have to hover and supervise. There’s no specific thing they do, I think it’s just hard to see someone you don’t like interacting with your baby.”
Adds another: “We had a health scare with my baby when he was a newborn and my MIL did the same thing and made it all about her.”
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