I have been noticing a lot now that I’m pregnant how others want to live vicariously through me and my pregnancy. It truly is amazing how people can make my baby all about them and their wants, needs, and feelings without any respect for my feelings or wants. Even more so with my parents and mother in law. It’s like they think they’re privileged to know things or have information about me or my baby just because they’re the future grandparents. I have started to try and set boundaries with others on my wants and needs during my pregnancy and so far people continue to want to do whatever they want. Such as buy whatever they want for the baby even though we don’t need it, or invite themselves over, etc. which I’ve shut that down as best I can but that’s more my mother in law who’s doing that crap so my husband is dealing with her. As for my parents, we have a bad past and they don’t live local so I’m able to cut them out more but my dad continues to try and cross my boundaries which infuriates me. It’s like I don’t matter and it’s what everyone else wants and they don’t give a crap about me or my feelings. So again, it’s interesting to me how having a baby can create such stressful situations when it should be a happy time and in my opinion be about my wishes are for my pregnancy and baby. Annoyed and a little sad. 😒