Reply to My mother invited family over to come meet my five day old baby without telling me

Forum Index » Family Relationships

Reply to "My mother invited family over to come meet my five day old baby without telling me "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]When did the practice of confinement stop, when newborn babies were kept home and away from all but immediate family until they’d built up some immunity? [/b]

I think it’s crazy every time I see people carting newborn babies into public places with dozens and dozens of people it seems crazy. And I certainly wouldn’t want my five day old around two germ vector toddlers nor would I want to catch some crap from them myself.

Sorry OP I think it’s been too long since your mother pushed a watermelon out and felt the utter exhaustion of the post partum period so she’s forgotten how much she would have hated the same situation she just subjected you to. Or maybe she is just absent empathy and you’ve endured this all along and if that’s true I’m sorry. [/quote]

Seriously! In my culture (Indian), mom and infant are at home for 40 days and no visitors are allowed. My mom came to help me for 40 days and we budgeted for and hired help also. My baby and I were 100% catered to, and my DH and my mom also had all the support/outsourcing help so that they could help me and the baby without being exhausted themselves. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics