Has anyone else been feeling reluctant to let others hold baby?  I find I'm super-sensitive about anyone other than my BF or I holding him. On one hand I feel like it's not too surprising (he's only 5 days old, and I'm still coming to terms with the fact that he's MY baby!), but on the other I understand people only want to hold him because they're so excited - and I don't want to be unreasonable or irrational.

I don't like there being an expectation that friends or family can just pick him up.. it's different if I feel comfortable enough to offer, but nobody ever gives me the opportunity.  The issue isn't so much our friends (I think the majority would first wait to be asked), it's my BF immediate family. Unfortunately we live with but are planning to leave sometime this year.

Last night, i was breastfeeding my son and his mother knocked on the door and asked if she could come down, he said no because i was breastfeeding and she got upset and stressed the fact that shes a woman too and it shouldn’t matter. ( Im sorry... breastfeeding is between me and my son.... its not a family social event.) though I'm happy for them to see him, but now I wish they'd back off a bit. ( It also might have to do with the fact that she left a sour taste in my mouth by disrespecting me by smoking in front of me while i was pregnant with him. ) she also doesn’t come to me to ask to hold him, she will only ask my boyfriend.... which is weird. Anyways

I fully expect that I'll get over it in time as the newness wears off and I start to feel more like his mom (and as though I know him a bit better), but I was hoping to find out if anyone else is feeling the same way.  I just feel so guilty for wanting him all to myself/Boyfriend. (I did have a chat with my family doctor and she did say that we should have two weeks min just baby, daddy and I.)

Is this a common way for new moms to feel?