My parents taking over my baby?
I'm 23 years old and living with my parents, while being pregnant my bf broke up with me and my parents were there to help me out with a lot of support. Now that I had the baby I love how happy they are to be grandparents again for the second time. They have always been over the moon but now I can't help be irritated. I like that they are around to hold the baby and talk to the baby and help me except now I feel like they look at me like the young teenage mom who needs help. Every single time baby cries they literally come rushing into my room like if something horrible happen. My baby girl is barely 3 days old and you can't imagine how much they have been on my back and the constant running in my room is driving me mad. They don't think its normal if she cries longer then 7 seconds and even though I'm a ftm any cry scares me too but I know babies cry and instead of panicking first I try to figure out what she needs (diaper change, feeding, I check her temp, etc) while in the middle of doing one of these things there is my mom looking at me wanting to take over and I feel so stupid. The baby has never cried any longer then 2 min so I understand if she was there crying for a whole 10-20 min non stop. Idk what to do or maybe I just suck consoling my baby quick enough? At this moment it's 240am and my mom is rocking the baby because she kept crying while I was changing her! My dad even came out his room to see what was going on. My mom also makes ATON of suggestions with everything i choose to do without EVEN knowing if what she thinks is accurate either the food I eat (I'm breastfeeding her) or the way I change her diaper, the fact that my own doctor told me to take iron pills or whats good for the baby, then she'll say " omg no that's bad" and I'll ask how or why? Then she'll look clueless and say "well I don't really know I'm not too sure but I don't think that's good for the baby" which makes no sense and puts me on ease. We are catholic so they always make remarks that I feel are too much about spirits and angels, etc. I can't remember what they said earlier but I looked at them and said "omg u guys are so negative, she's okay u can't think like that" which they both stood quiet and looked at each other and said "oh no you're right we were just saying" which then made me feel extra bad...not sure if this will pass but I feel like it won't. I do all the mommy duties and enjoy it, its just those random outbursts during the day that make me feel like I am not doing a great job.
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