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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To ask why she can’t just be happy for us?

54 replies

Placeboooooooo · 18/01/2018 16:12

Ive recently found out I was pregnant following two M/C. One at 8 weeks and the other at 13 weeks which was absolutely awful.

I’m overweight, have lost a dress size in preparation for falling pregnant, I don’t weight myself as for obsessive with it as a teenager I’m currently a size 18, was hoping to lose more but caught on unexpectedly! I’m currently 15 weeks and have a 4 YO DD.

My DM was bloody awful when she found out about my last M/C after I’d accidentally left a box of pregna care on the work top. I broke down and had to explain that I wasn’t pregnant and had lost the baby. She has always been a cow about my weight and I’ve got a horrendous relationship with food as a result, it’s all or nothing. I have never been able to have that balance of eating enough to be able to lose weight at a steady pace but be full at the same time. I’ve always starved myself and lost a lot of weight in a short space of time. I lost the dress size in less than 3 weeks. I know it’s not good for me. Anyway, 10 minutes after she found out about my M/C She blamed my weight ‘well you really want to be thinking about losing weight if you want to conceive, your body has to support you and the baby and probably couldn’t cope because you had weight on.’ My size 8 SIL miscarried the week after and DM was taking her out for coffee and supporting her yet the same thing had happened to me and she’s bollocking me about my weight.

Myself and DP told my DM that we were expecting again a week ago. We made it clear that she was the first person to know other than ourselves and that we’d kept it quiet for so long due to what happened last time. She just put her head in her hands and told me how I was putting a huge strain on my already ‘struggling’ body (the body that chases sheep and cows up and down hill tops, has already given birth once and looks after DD Hmm ) also I’m putting a huge strain on the NHS and that it’s not fair to put an unborn baby at risk by getting pregnant while overweight.

She just can’t be happy for us. My partner asked her to leave our house before she could say anymore. I had a normal pregnancy and birth with DD. I feel as though everyone is looking down on me and tutting because I’ve fallen pregnant while still overweight.

AIBU for being pissed of with her?

OP posts:
Tapandgo · 18/01/2018 16:17

Well done to your partner for showing her the door.

Coffeeisnecessary · 18/01/2018 16:22

Oh my goodness you are not being unreasonable at all. Does she have to be in your life as she doesn't seem to be adding anything positive to it at the moment. I'm so sorry you have such an unsupportive mother and many congratulations on your pregnancy!

recklessgran · 18/01/2018 16:22

Congratulations! She sounds horrible OP. Just ignore and keep your distance. Lots of people far bigger than size 18 have had and are having perfectly normal pregnancies without problem. Please don't let your "DM" spoil what should be a happy time for you. Just try to eat healthily and get enough rest. Good luck OP.

Tapandgo · 18/01/2018 16:22

Well done to partner for showing her the door

Tapandgo · 18/01/2018 16:22

Well done to your partner for showing her the door.

beckymad1x · 18/01/2018 16:24

YANBU!

As a mother she should support you, regardless of weight! To take our your SIL after her miscarriage and comfort her, and then to basically blame yours on your weight is horrible.

Maybe speak to her and let her know how you feel, tell her you know about weight and it doesn't stop you being a good mum to your DD!

Don't let it get to you, and congratulations on the pregnancy, I hope all goes well for you :) xx

sirlee66 · 18/01/2018 16:25

Sorry if this is harsh.. fuck her.

Theres nothing wrong with you. Be healthy for yourself and your baby. Including mentally and you can do with out that unreasonable baggage.

Fuck her.

MrTrebus · 18/01/2018 16:25

Shes a horrible cow ignore her. I was a size 20 when I got pregnant out of the blue, perfect pregnancy and birth and perfect little DD! oh and I'm the healthiest person i know, genuinely and yet even now I'm a size 18 losing weight slowly since having DD. Ignore her. And congratulations!

Greensleeves · 18/01/2018 16:26

Wow, she sounds like a toxic bitch

She has got some very deep-seated issues which are NOT your problem, you mustn''t let her spoil your enjoyment of your pregnancy

Your biggest advantage here is that you have a partner with a backbone - get him to act as a buffer zone between you and her from now on, you don't need her and her wonky fucked-up attitudes anywhere near you and your babies

and congratulations Flowers

SandAndSea · 18/01/2018 16:26

Congratulations, OP. Flowers

Your partner sounds great!

KnitSewCrochet · 18/01/2018 16:28

The problem is NOT you. It is your mother. Flowers

Alicetherabbit · 18/01/2018 16:29

Congratulations on pregnancy, ignore DM, you know what your body can cope with xx

ScipioAfricanus · 18/01/2018 16:29

Congratulations to you! Ignore her - YANBU to be annoyed with her, and it wouldn’t be unreasonable to be very angry for a long time. I’m sorry she’s been so unsupportive about your weight and your struggles and miscarriages. Hope you can just focus on your lovely growing family and keep her at arm’s length while you need to.

TheDailyMailIsADisgustingRag · 18/01/2018 16:31

Well done to your partner. She sounds pretty foul tbh.

Congratulations on your pregnancy and I’m very sorry to hear about your losses Flowers.

Rachie1973 · 18/01/2018 16:32

I'm impressed at your partner!

Of course we all know the risks associated with being overweight but a size 18 isn't bloody vast!

Being fit and healthy is equally as important and you clearly are.

Sounds like she just wants a gripe and you're the easy target. I'd follow your DPs lead and let her loose!

Placeboooooooo · 18/01/2018 16:32

I’m so lucky with DP. He always stands up for me and tells me I’m beautiful whatever weight I am and he’s been there from a size 10-22 and everything inbetween!

She’d hounded me about my weight when DD was 2 months old and he rang her up and bollocked her for it.

I’ve just got a complex now that everyone will be looking down on me and thinking that I’ve been wreckless by falling pregnant but this baby is so loved and wanted and I’m so happy.

She’s ashamed of me is the top and bottom of it. I aren’t prim and proper, a size 8-10 and I don’t judge and criticise people so she probably wonders how on earth she managed to have a daughter so disimilar to herself.

Thank you for all of your congratulations and kind reassuring words. As I suspected I’m not being unreasonable.

OP posts:
TheDailyMailIsADisgustingRag · 18/01/2018 16:34

I was just at the hospital today and believe me op, there are plenty of women bigger than an 18 having babies and nobody is looking down on them, (unless they’re epic cunts).

Greensleeves · 18/01/2018 16:36

Nobody will be judging you. Nobody will think you are being reckless. Nobody wil be looking at your body shape and thinking anything at all, because that is not normal. That is your mother's weird, repressive thinking, and it's hard for you to detach from it because you've grown up with it.

Honestly, put some distance between you and you won't believe how much happier you'll be

Enjoy your lovely little family Flowers

ineedwine99 · 18/01/2018 16:37

Well done to your partner for showing her the door

This.

Congratulations, ignore her, she's vicious

BewareOfDragons · 18/01/2018 16:46

Well done to your partner.

Your mother is a bitch. Sorry, but she is.

To tell you it's your fault you miscarried, but console your SIL for the same loss? Utter bitch.

I would seriously consider going NC with her. What on earth does she bring to your life that is positive?

BewareOfDragons · 18/01/2018 16:46

Well done to your partner.

Your mother is a bitch. Sorry, but she is.

To tell you it's your fault you miscarried, but console your SIL for the same loss? Utter bitch.

I would seriously consider going NC with her. What on earth does she bring to your life that is positive?

MavisPike · 18/01/2018 16:47

bollocks to her
enjoy your lovely family

Knittedfairies · 18/01/2018 16:48

Everyone is not looking down on you; just your unpleasant mother. Congratulations OP! Stay happy and ignore. 👏 for your partner.

Farthingwood143657 · 18/01/2018 16:50

Congratulations and well done to your partner!

OhCalamity · 18/01/2018 16:50

Congratulations on your pregnancy! If your weight was any kind of issue, your midwife would have mentioned it. But she didn't so it's obviously not a concern for her. So your mum can fuck off.

Congratulations also on your excellent choice of DP.

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