My mother is becoming too much
I just had my son on Monday, through the pregnancy she kept overstepping her boundaries but I tried not to take it to heart as this is also her first grandchild and she's trying her best to help.
But since Monday she's really pushed it and I just can't take it any more, on Monday while I was being induced and my water was being broken she sent me a message that she really doesn't like what they are doing trying to tell me to ask the doctors not to break my water (I was induced due to medical reasons).
I then allowed her to come in when I was in active Labor and asked her to stand behind the curtain while I was pushing (I did this without medication) I was very aware that she kept peaking out to see what was going on but tried to keep my cool about it as my son was finally here.
Then when he was getting his sugar levels checked regularly and his hearing test done she had a issue with it and asked why they're pricking him and bothering him so much and didn't get why it was necessary.
Since I've been home she hasn't stopped with the advice I told her to stop and that everyone that speaks to myself and my partner has given advice and it's extremely annoying, she tried to tell me not to bite her head off about it and to accept it and I told her no.
Then today I spoke to her about trying to keep baby up during the day and not to let him sleep while she's here (two days ago she came over and let him sleep a really long time and he didn't sleep at all during the night, brust a blood vessel in his eye from crying so much and was so upset all night). A couple of hours after she left she called and got on my back about keeping him up during the day telling me that what were doing is wrong. I've spoken to the midwives about keeping him up and others and they have never said it's wrong and that it's good he's getting sleep at night. she then proceeded to send me messages telling me that we will kill him by doing this and that's its very dangerous.
We try to keep him up a bit more during the day so he can sleep, last night he slept well was happy and has been a happy baby. We also give him a nap both in the morning and afternoon for 1.5-2 hours so he's not tried and we try to put him to sleep around 7pm.
I'm so angry and sick of it, I know it shouldn't bother me but now I feel like I'm doing a horrible job. Am I doing anything wrong?
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