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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Why do people feel the need to announce they are in labor and gather an audience[/b]? Just let your friends and family know the baby had arrived at some point within a day of its birth. Sheesh.[/quote]

[b]Because some women enjoy making a spectacle of their pregnancy. [/b]The detailed week-by-week posts on social media, elaborate pregnancy and gender reveals, and then once they actually go into labor they want an audience and everyone to know how much they’re dilated. [/quote]

+1[/quote]

Maybe it's not an "audience" that the women are seeking but support from loved ones? Just a thought. Sure some women want to make a spectacle of their pregnancies and births but many others just want to have family and friends near to share an emotional, exciting, scary, joyous time in their lives. I'm not speaking from personal experience. I didn't want anyone except my husband (and hospital staff:)) there for my births. But I don't think one should immediately assume that anyone who lets loved ones know when they're in labor and/or wants friends and family there is some kind of narcissist.[/quote]

You raise a good point.  I'm the +1.  I guess the kicker for me is that it is 2 weeks later.  The baby is hopefully at home and thriving, yet here is OP stomping her feet about how she was wronged.  I get it that she wanted her friend there for some reason but it is over now.  It is hard to see that OP has her baby's best interests at heart when all she can do is focus on what happened to her in L&D.[/quote]

You are as rude as the MIL. Op, ignore this.[/quote]''

Actually, OP, pay close attention to this. You have a lovely new being in your life and you are so wrapped up in something so unimportant. There was a misunderstanding, your MIL may have overstepped, but you have a sweet new baby that you should be thinking about and paying attention to. [/quote]

Nope, the Facebook message clearly shows this was not a misunderstanding nor is it unimportant if op wanted the support of her friend and MIL ruined it. Op can still enjoy her baby and be upset by MIL overstepping boundaries.[/quote]

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