My mother-in-law got angry about not being there when I gave birth – then did something weird while babysitting
A WOMAN has shared a story online of what her mother-in-law did after she was excluded from the birth of her child.
The user on TikTok shared the Reddit story that detailed the woman’s mother-in-law’s weird behavior when her baby was a newborn.
TikTok user @llove_lola is known on the platform for sharing stories from the social site Reddit that are trending and peculiar.
She tells the story of how the Reddit user told her mother-in-law off after she was caught in a weird situation with her newborn daughter.
In the video, the TikTok user also drops in some of her own thoughts about the story, giving viewers a glimpse of her natural reaction toward the information.
The TikTok user then tells the in-depth story of how the then 35-year-old gave birth to a girl that was three weeks old at the time of the Reddit post and the actions of her mother-in-law.
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The Reddit user’s husband is a travel nurse and left again for work, leaving his mother-in-law at their home to help care for her and the newborn baby.
The mother-in-law moved in with the couple when the user was six months pregnant after her husband paid off her gambling debt and gave her a place to live.
Her debt took up a large portion of their savings account and took up a large portion of her husband’s individual income.
Her mother-in-law’s behavior only got weirder as she would do unusual things, like kiss the Reddit user’s belly and say: “How’s my daughter in there? I can’t wait to meet you.”
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She also said something like: “Hey little girl. If you act up, I’m going to have to spank you,” and then laughed it off.
When she gave birth, she only wanted her and her husband in the room as it was a very vulnerable moment, but her mother-in-law did not take the news lightly.
“My mother-in-law screams and cries, calling me a b***h and saying I’m being inconsiderate,” the TikTok user reads from the story.
Shortly after birth, the Reddit user’s maternity leave was over and her mother-in-law started watching her daughter while she was at work but that quickly came to an end.
One time when she was trying to take a nap, she woke up to her mother-in-law breastfeeding her daughter.
“How does a mother-in-law even breastfeed your daughter if she’s not producing any milk?” the storyteller asks toward the beginning of the video.
She ran downstairs and screamed at her mother-in-law for her outlandish actions and takes her daughter from her arms.
“I told her what she did was disgustingly horrible, awful and just generally was so out of line,” the storyteller reads.
Apparently, the mother-in-law had been lactating and following tips for breastfeeding, which had worked.
The new mother was incredibly upset, so she told her off again, and hours later received a voicemail from her brother-in-law, sister-in-law, father-in-law, and everyone in the family.
They declared that what her mother-in-law did was cute and the Reddit user was the one in the wrong.
The TikTok user closed out the video by offering her personal opinions about the mother-in-law’s actions.
“I don’t care how old your mother-in-law is or how old grandma is if you’re breastfeeding your kid, that is so weird. That is nasty. That’s disgusting,” she says.
Many viewers took to the comments to offer their two cents about the story.
“FIL SIL & BIL really think she was right to breastfeed someone else’s baby? Omg these ppl aren’t serious,” one commented.
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“I wouldn’t be trusting her with my child again. Supervised visits only,” another added.
“Mother-in-law needs to go. Like never see the baby ever again,” another wrote.
