Once She Got Pregnant, Her Mother-In-Law Started Behaving Bizarrely, And So She Doesn’t Want Her In The Delivery Room When She Has Her Baby
Prior to this woman’s pregnancy, she had a great relationship with her mother-in-law.
However, once she got pregnant, there was a drastic change in her mother-in-law’s behavior. Immediately, her mother-in-law seemed to be trying to outdo her and compete with her. It was as if she was trying to compete for her husband’s attention, and her mother-in-law hadn’t done any of this throughout her marriage up until this point.
“Since I got pregnant, she has been stopping in randomly with gifts for my husband. Things like tools, money, and jewelry. My husband hates jewelry. He always has. The first time she brought over a bracelet, I said, ‘I love that! I bought him one just like it, but he won’t wear it.’ She said, ‘Well, I’m his MOM, so he WILL wear it. It’s a mom and son thing,'” she said.
Obviously, she thought this was strange.
Then, when her husband’s mother kept giving him money, it made him incredibly uncomfortable, and he told his mother he didn’t want her to give him money anymore. But she didn’t listen to him, and she said that she just wanted him to treat himself.
“But it’s just getting weirder. Like her randomly showing up to my doctor’s appointments and telling the nurses that she is my husband’s moral support and that she needs to ‘hold him up’?” she explained.
What’s even weirder about the way her mother-in-law is behaving is that this isn’t going to be her first grandchild. Her husband has two sisters and a brother (her husband is the youngest), and all of them already have children. His mother didn’t go to the births of any of her other grandchildren.
Several days ago, she had her baby shower, and her due date is coming up in just a few days.
As a baby shower gift, her mother-in-law gave her and her husband a car seat, even though she’d been aware that they’d already purchased one.
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“The car seat we bought was $380, and it grows with the baby. The one she bought was a $99 infant-only car seat. She told him to return the one we got because ‘the one I bought has sentimental value because I bought it.’ Then she turns to me and says, ‘I better get a phone call when the baby is coming so I can be there to support MY baby,’ and starts rubbing my husband’s back while smiling up at him, and it just, like, grossed me out, honestly,” she shared.
Understandably, the idea of her mother-in-law being present for the birth of her baby makes her incredibly uneasy, especially given how strangely she’s been behaving since she got pregnant.
Her husband also acknowledges how odd his mother has been since they told her about the pregnancy, but he doesn’t know how to approach the situation or how to possibly confront his mother to ask her to stop.
She knows that she won’t change her mind about allowing her mother-in-law to be in the delivery room. It would make her angry to see her mother-in-law catering to her husband while she is going through a painful birthing experience.
Plus, since this is her and her husband’s first child, she wants to be able to have his emotional support throughout the process without his mother distracting him.
While discussing the situation and what to do, her husband suggested allowing his mother to be in the delivery room in the hopes that she would return to her old self after the birth of their child.
But she rejected this idea both because when her mother-in-law is around, her husband acts uncomfortable and because she always feels angry when his mother-in-law is around, and she doesn’t want to feel that way while having her baby.
What would you do if you were in her shoes?
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