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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.

My parents live in Florida,  not ready to move up this way yet, but my mom doesn't want to miss out on a relationship with her granddaughter especially since DH's family is local ( Maryland).

Mom is retired so she figures she can fly up here a week at a time get to know the  baby.

I know it sounds crazy, but this is important to her and I want my daughter to know her grandmother too,[/quote]

This is her first grandchild?  She's overthinking it. There are lots of good ways for long-distance grandparents to have good relationships with their grandparents without going to this extreme.

Do you want your mom living with you for every other week? Does your DH?

Suggest, say, a long weekend every six weeks where she stays with the baby Fri and/or Mon while you go to work.  Or just say that you and DH really have to have consistent full time care and get on your own two feet as parents, that you want her to be Grandma but not the nanny.

This impulse of your mom's isn't reasonable.  She needs to figure out her own way to cope with the distance that doesn't involve deciding how you live your lives.

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