Have you ever expeience #momshaming?
I have a one year old baby and it wasn't easy at the beginning. I'm a latin woman married to an Austrian guy. When I got pregnant I had to heard a lot of comments of my husband's family. Some of their comments where very rude or nosy and I thought it was because of the culture differences. After my baby was born had a lot of problems with being a new mom. : breastfeeding didn't go well at the beginning. My tities would bleed and since I don't have big nipples my son could not drink properly. It was really hurtful because I felt scared that I wouldn't be able to feed my baby. To that my mother in law just told me: you have to breastfeed your baby. I don't know if she was trying to encourage me or just making feel a bad mom but that was just the beginning to her endless comments about my parenting decisions. A week ago she visited us for one hour tried to play with the baby (but he didn't really like it) and went. Later she wrote my husband that the baby should not play with markers cause he needs pepper wax pencils* so she would buy it.
Ok. So I am not even able to buy the stupid markers for my son?
"He is too young for vaccines"
"Is he going to day care already?"
"Children should not eat meat before the 3 year"
"I would always buy "bio" clothes to my children" (I was dressing my son with a Zara Jacket, it is literally the only thing that I have from Zara)
And so on...
And that it's just talking about my mother in law. But I also have received comments from family members and "friends"
It doesn't matter what you do, you are always doing it wrong.
And it makes me feel insecure and not free.
What do you think? Am I overreacting? Have you ever expeience #momshaming?
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