Input needed from non-FTMs please!
So, my mother-in-law, bless her heart, really wants to be helpful after the baby comes, but she keeps suggesting things she did for her daughter's first baby that I'm not really comfortable with, like staying at our house or us staying at her house (to be fair, she lives a mile away, I see no need for either of those things to happen). I'm very different from her daughter, I'm much more private and introverted and independent, so my needs are different (and also, she's not my mom, so it's not as comforting to me to have her around all the time as it is to her daughter).
Long story short, I want her to feel needed, but I also still want my privacy and time for my husband and I to bond with our baby alone. So, I need some experienced moms to tell me what was most helpful to them in the first weeks postpartum. I've come up with helping with grocery shopping so that she'll be helping us out and it will give her an excuse to come over and see the baby. Do any of you have any things that you would have loved someone to help with? I really don't want to shut her out, but she's being awfully pushy about staying with us and I'm just really not comfortable with that!
Thanks!
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