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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I totally get your annoyance. But consider things a bit.

Here's my story - my lovely parents showed up on my doorstep right when I got home from the hospital with my first. They'd driven 9 hrs to get there and had masses of homemade food. But they were largely useless around the baby (hadn't seen one in decades) and we were stressed and sleepless. They wanted us to help with things we just couldn't contemplate (making a proper Easter dinner for one, when I could have cared less!) I'll never forget screaming at my mother for screwing up the coffee maker and creating a giant flood of coffee in our tiny kitchen. I apologized after the fact, and like you I had a bulletproof excuse to be frustrated with them.

Still, when my mother died 2 years later, it was the moment i regretted most in life. It's hard to take the long view when you're immediately post-partum, but there will come a time when you may look back on this and wish you'd mustered just a tiny bit more kindness toward your ILs. I'm totally not bashing you, I would feel the same way you did, I just wanted you to hear another take. [/quote]

Wow. I can't believe you screamed at your mom, pp. Must have been those post-partum hormones. [/quote]

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