How do I support my crazy pregnant sister?

[Anonymous]

Lol this was me when pregnant with DC 1. Except the EC and anti vax stuff. I loved the people who just nodded and smiled and were supportive and bought me the organic onesies. With the second baby I got a lot more normal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My little sister (4yrs younger) is my best friend. She is is 38 weeks pregnant and is going absolutely insane. She flipped out because someone bought her polyester socks and those weren't on the registry. Someone gave her some used clothes and she tossed everything that was neutral colors as well as anything with snaps. She thinks she isn't going to use diapers at all because she is going to do elimination communication. She even bought "chaps" for baby so they can begin potty training right after birth. Someone bought her the hatch sound machine and is so worried about the EMFS that she has decided to not use it. She has even started to read anti-vaccine parenting books.

I try so hard to just nod my had and smile but it is getting so bad, it is to the point I don't even know how to support her because everything I do or say is wrong. I offer to door dash a meal and she says no because she is eating certain food for her uterus, and doesn't want take out. I offer to buy some sleepers for baby, but she only wants these $50 organic sleepers, so I can only buy one. She will ask me to come over and help, but I am so scared of saying or suggesting the wrong things, it is like walking on eggshells.

Whoever impregnated her should be putting up with her craziness, not you.

[Anonymous]

I had to google baby chaps.

This is my gift to DCUM:

https://tinyundies.com/products/tiny-chaps-baby-chaps-split-pants-for-elimination-communication

-- NP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I kind of feel like the baby crapping all over her house and carefully color-coordinated clothes will take care of some of this. Just let it happen.

And just try not to be smug if it doesn't work out. We were all amazing hypothetical parents to our unborn children

[Anonymous]

I'm also with your sister on snaps being annoying. Especially with older babies who kick a lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had to google baby chaps.

This is my gift to DCUM:

https://tinyundies.com/products/tiny-chaps-baby-chaps-split-pants-for-elimination-communication

-- NP

Thank you. Lol. I'm holding my newborn and would like to thank op for making me smile. Every time I change a diaper, I'll be grateful that I never heard of chaps or elimination communication when I was pregnant

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had to google baby chaps.

This is my gift to DCUM:

https://tinyundies.com/products/tiny-chaps-baby-chaps-split-pants-for-elimination-communication

-- NP

At $15 a pop that’s expensive! Baby will go through at least 3-4 per day (at least!), and unless you’re doing laundry multiple times a day you need a lot of pairs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm also with your sister on snaps being annoying. Especially with older babies who kick a lot.

But seriously. Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth with such a petty detail.

Now, if plans to skip the shower and buy her own onesies and other things, be particular all she wants, but there should be a little bit of deference given to the giver of the gift, if for no other reason than people don’t read minds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lol this was me when pregnant with DC 1. Except the EC and anti vax stuff. I loved the people who just nodded and smiled and were supportive and bought me the organic onesies. With the second baby I got a lot more normal.

I thought the anti vax stuff was debunked a long time ago. That was in the era when people followed Jenny McCarthy.

Your sister might want to get off the weird YouTube videos.

[Anonymous]

She's not your little sister. She's a grown woman about to become a mother.

Yiu know what it's like to be 38 weeks pregnant so

Buy her the organic ni snap onesie and STFU !

Seriously.

EC might work for her. It might not.

Learn how to keep your smug superior know it all mommy stuff to yourself.
She'll find her way and be the kind of mom she wants to be. Just like you have.

Enjoy being an aunt!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:38 weeks? This is normal. Don't expect hormones to settle for like another three months.


Don't get involved. Nod politely and treat her like a 38 weeks irrational pregnant lady who will eventually get over it but it will take some time.

This! She will figure out later what she was being crazy about and what she actually cares about. The one thing you can do is offer to take care of donating anything she thinks she does not want. Then store it in case she regrets it later.

Maybe suggest her partner hide a pack of diapers in the house.

[Anonymous]

I’m laughing at this post. She is in for a real wake up!! EC with a newborn? Bwahahahahaha.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where is the father in all this? Is he on board? Because I cannot imagine all this. It sounds like she needs medical intervention for mental health issues. All the “this is normal” posters are wrong. Once you combine ALL of this, it isn’t normal at all.

Only on DCUM would so many chime in this is in any way normal.

OP's sister sounds like a prime candidate for post partum depression or psychosis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lol this was me when pregnant with DC 1. Except the EC and anti vax stuff. I loved the people who just nodded and smiled and were supportive and bought me the organic onesies. With the second baby I got a lot more normal.

I thought the anti vax stuff was debunked a long time ago. That was in the era when people followed Jenny McCarthy.

Your sister might want to get off the weird YouTube videos.

https://www.ageofautism.com/2016/04/lets-go-find-unvaccinated-children-with-autism.html