How to cope with an overbearing mum now I have my newborn baby

[Melittlebee]

My newborn is just a week old, he's the absolute light of my life.

My Mum has always been overbearing but she's got much worse this past week since my baby was born.

Examples such as texting me then if I haven't replied within 30 minutes texting again and again. Wanting to babysit for no reason, referring to my baby as 'her' baby, numerous other things which I'm finding really annoying and claustrophobic.

How would you deal with it?

Firstly, congratulations on your new baby

Don't be bullied by your mother, switch your phone off for an hour or two. If your mum says anything, tell her baby was sleeping and you were putting your feet up. Every time she says 'my baby' smile and say, 'no mum he's my baby, I'm his mother,' repeat as necessary.

I am saying this a DGM. Yes, I love my DGC so much, but they are my grandchildren and I am their grandmother, not their mother. Your DM needs to step back and understand that you are the DM.

Just beware, a gm can fall in love, hook line and sinker, with the dgc.

Switch phone off. Tell her you need peace and quiet. Which is true. You are only one week post-natal.

Be rude. You can blame it on hormones later. After she's backed off.

She does sound like hard work, but can I give another perspective? I often tell my DGC that they're 'my precious boy/girl' - I don't for a minute mean that I think they're mine, but that they're precious to me. I second the advice about turning your phone off though - that level of texting is intrusive.