Would you let them around your child?

Heather

I am 37 weeks pregnant and over the course of the last nine months my husband and I have decided not to let my in laws around our son. I want some feedback to know if we’re doing the right thing or if we’re overreacting.

We’re in an argument with them right now because we’ve said no visitors at the hospital and yet they keep demanding to be there. They say he’s their baby too and they have a right to see him first.

First off, they all live together (7 people) in a roach and flea infested house along with 10 cats. The house is always disgusting and they never clean up. My MIL is having an affair which she talks about in front of her children and grandchildren. Her and my SILs have taken money from us as well as taking our truck without permission.

One SIL has repeatedly stated that my husband belongs to her and that our son is actually their baby. She has begged me to cheat on my husband multiple times so “she doesn’t have to share him anymore.”

The same SIL has a daughter who is almost two. Since birth this baby has been left on the floor for hours and hours at a time by herself to be bitten by roaches and fleas. They’ve given her adult food since 2 months old and before she was a year they had her in a toddler booster seat.

My youngest SIL will slap and push down her as well as our other nieces and nephews with no consequences. She even went as far to scream in our nieces face as a newborn because she wouldn’t stop crying.

The last straw for us was last week. Our niece accidentally hit me with a bottle and my MIL grabbed her very hard and started hitting her with a fly swat demanding she apologize. She came to hug me but from where she was crying she couldn’t get any words out. My MIL continued to keep hitting her before I finally just picked her up and wouldn’t let her near my MIL. Later that afternoon she was in my MILs purse, my MIL slapped her across the face and called her a bitch. My SIL just sat on the couch paying attention to her boyfriend.

These things happen constantly and I don’t want to subject my son to them. CPS has been called repeatedly but nothing has ever been done. We just feel like they don’t deserve to be around our son and it would be better for his safety if we didn’t let them. There’s so many more things I could add but it would take 2 years to read it all. I just want to know we’re doing the right thing because some people say we’re overreacting.

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