Newborn & Frustrated Family

I had my baby in late November almost two weeks early because of high blood pressure. We were held at the hospital because of his low glucose levels for 36 hrs. He was all good but pretty tiny (5 pounds 11 ounces) at birth and dropped to 5lbs3oz after. I had a very tough delivery (forceps, tore and two episiotomies) so recovery has been so hard (stitches opened up twice, yeast infection, hemorrhoids, overdosed on laxatives almost had to go to emerg., crazy nausea, clogged ducts, swollen urethra from catheter and more! Woo! 😫) Plus my little has a tongue tie and reflux so breastfeeding has been a challenge as well.

With all that my family has been giving me SO MUCH GRIEF over not letting everyone come over right away and meet him. I’ve had my husbands mom stay with us for the first two weeks because I could barely function and my own mom passed away a few years back. We’ve had his parents, his brother, my aunt, my dad and my friend over to see my little. That’s it. We didn’t see anyone for Xmas because of covid rates and of course I got more grief for that (even after my family said they all just had colds). I tried FaceTiming and no one would pick up. I’m being told I’m picking friends over family because my one best friend met him before my cousins did. I’m just so tired and stressed from this new role of motherhood, lonely from lack of being able to do anything in the world right now and just sad my family can’t support me in just trying to keep my baby safe! I’m just sad about it, rant over.