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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What MIL thinks she gets equal access to the new mother as the mother's mother gets? That is never the case. Both MIL and DH are expecting you to do something no other new mother does. Have you told him that? [/quote]

MIL doesn't want equal access to the new mother. She wants, and is entitled to, equal access to db.[/quote]

Let us explain it to you again, patiently.  In the first few weeks, you can't separate "access" to the baby from access to the mother, and the mother deserves to have the people she wants around to take care of HER and make her first few post partum weeks comfortable.  Maternal grandmother is not there to get "access" to the baby -- she is there to take care of the new mom.  In fact, many pediatricians recommend that the mother ONLY be surrounded by people she feels totally comfortable with in the first week, in order to create a peaceful environment for breastfeeding, etc.  After that, I agree that she should make efforts to be fair -- but even so, nobody is "entitled" to access to anyone else's child.  [/quote]

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