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[quote=Anonymous]I'm about to be a FTM and dreading this.  My parents came up once for an event during a busy period at work and I just asked if they could take care of dinner every night.  My mom panicked, somehow after putting dinner on a table for a family of four for 18+ years she could not figure out what to do.  Every night I had to text her what to make, what ingredients to buy, and general directions for putting it together.  And I'd get home and she would be flustered. 
 She was maybe 67 at the time.  Last summer, when she was 71, I had surgery when DH was out of town and the same stuff happened but worse -- I needed someone to help me with PT and she panicked that she was hurting me and couldn't do it.  She also could not drive my stick shift even though she had driven one for probably 20 years as a younger person and when she was even 10 years younger would come to visit me and have no issues driving it.  We had to rent an automatic for her.

She was a really steady, confident woman and still "acted" that way so this has kind of been a shock.  So I think this could be less of "my mom sucks at helping with my baby" and more of the reality starting that our moms are aging + rusty with running a busy household and they are just not going to be the rock they would be had they been younger.  Made more difficult with the fact that we are generally having kids older so moms are older.  I mean my grandma helped my mom with babies in the 1970s but she was in her 50s, not 70s.[/quote]

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