Parents-in-law
Guysssss, i feel like I can’t take this anymore. So we live with our in laws cuz we’re trying to save money to buy a house, everything was fine until I had our baby 5 months ago. His mom wants to tell me how to raise my baby, they believe in all this myths that most don’t even make sense, and I don’t believe in them and she gets mad because of that, like you can’t force me to believe in that bs. If we don’t to the things that she tells us to do with our baby she’ll get mad, and my father in law too, they’re both the same way they thing that just because they already went through it they know better than us, when in reality they don’t cuz they’re not updated with all the new information about babies. Also y feel like i cant even leave my room cu the moment we go out everybody wants to grab her away from me and take her outside or to their room without even asking me and it’s so annoying like I can’t just go out to cook something for me while I leave my baby in a chair with her toys cuz they immediately want to grab her and take her and then it’s hard for me to get her back. I also work so my mother in law takes care of her a few hours in the afternoon and I gave her some clothes just in case she needs to change my baby, and even tho i gave her clothes she still comes to my baby’s room and takes whatever she wants her to wear without even asking me or knowing if I’m saving something for any special occasion. Like first of all, who do you think you are coming in to my baby’s room and looking for stuff just like that? Like no, you’re her grandmother not her and unless I tell you to go look for something in her room you have nothing to be doing in there. I just feel like I can’t take it anymore we have no privacy they don’t listen to us, even if I tell to not do things to my baby they still do it, I don’t know what to do anymore it’s so frustrating. And I feel like I’ve been arguing with my husband more because of them and I don’t like that. Like he doesn’t understand he just tells me that “if it’s not going to hurt our baby just let them do it” like NO, if I don’t want them to do it they don’t do it, period!! I told him to talk to them but he doesn’t want to cuz he knows they’re going to get mad and then start acting stupid with my baby to the point where they won’t even want to hold her anymore or even look at her. They’re manipulative and that’s not okay. I don’t know what to do anymore cuz my husband is afraid to talk to them, they won’t listen to me and at the moment we can’t really move out cuz we don’t have enough money for that yet. It’s so frustrating, I’ve been feeling more anxious and even a little more depressed cuz like I said I can’t leave my room cuz then I start feeling attacked by everybody wanting to tell me what to do it not with my baby, even my sister in law and my brother in law, which by the way one is 17 and the other is 13 so they don’t even know anything about baby’s they just repeat what their parents say. I can’t even breastfeed cuz we have our own living room but my brother in law is always freaking coming in so I have to be careful covering myself up every time I breastfeed and it makes it 100 times harder!!! It’s just so annoying, I don’t want to keep telling my husband these things cuz we always end up fighting and I don’t want that to keep happening I just needed somewhere to rant and get everything out my chest!!
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