I’m almost 7 months pregnant with our first and I already feel overprotective. My husbands family wants to start having family dinners once a month at each other’s houses and this is making me very nervous. I feel like we are still in the middle of a pandemic and I hate the idea of taking risks. To be honest, I don’t trust his family with covid. They lied to us during Christmas . They said they tested negative and we found out after it was too late that it was a lie. They just didn’t want us to not come to Christmas because they were positive.

Anyway, I have trust issues because of that and I’m just imagining them around my new baby girl. I don’t want to pass anything to her and how do I know they are being truthful and making safe choices?

That being said I know they are family. I’m not going to keep my baby away from my family so I don’t think I have a right to keep her away from his either. Does anyone have any advice on how to let go of control a bit and not be so overprotective?