Just posting to say that I’ve stuck to my guns about my boundaries concerning my body, baby, and birth and I’m feeling pretty proud.

It was hard and I see a lot of other women posting similar struggles like:

“My [family member x] is guilting me into being in my room during birth.”

“My [ family member x] won’t stop telling me how to [birth, feed my baby, circumcise, immunize, dress, EVERYTHING].”

“My [family member x] is making me uncomfortable and not respecting my modesty or space.”

I finally, at 30w—tired and achey as hell—had enough. Why do I, the person who’s actually going through all of these new, often scary changes with so much on my plate, have to take this disrespectful crap from my parents and inlaws? To be polite? Nope. I’m done.

I informed my family that they can either respect my boundaries (all, no compromises) or not be part of our new family’s life. Most understood but my narcissistic mother threw the biggest fit (cancelled my baby shower, called me horrible names, slandered me to everyone) but I didn’t give in.

MY BODY, MY CHOICE.

MY BIRTH, MY CHOICE.

MY BABY, MY FAMILY.