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To think this is the most unmumsnetty way to do babies?

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Thisaintphaedra · 17/06/2019 23:02

Lovely niece has had a baby! She hosted a gender reveal (we all bought presents), we had a baby shower (huge room, all the decorations and lots of friends and family & more presents!). Within a day of having baby all the family had visited held baby and stayed over an hour (plus more presents) Plus today she let us all know she is naming him after my son, her cousin, and everyone is really happy about it.
AIBU to think this is the most unmumsnet thing you’ll read on having a baby? Grin

OP posts:
BouncingBanana · 18/06/2019 00:47

Well i'm absolutely outraged. Won't someone please think of the germs!!
That poor baby being passed around like a parcel, it's disgusting.

Why didn't her partner stop everyone from coming in and barricade the door for at least 6 months??

I would report it to Social Services and log it with the police OP.

My pearls are well and truly clutched above my hoiked bosums.

( congratulations on the safe arrival though Grin

P.S Is that mumsnetty enough?

MrsEricBana · 18/06/2019 01:27

Cancel the cheque.

MrsEricBana · 18/06/2019 01:28

Then log it with the police. Your niece is definitely a CF of the highest order.

managedmis · 18/06/2019 01:56

Good stuff

SleepyGuineaPig · 18/06/2019 06:54

She’s obviously an entitled little madam, OP.

The only appropriate way to have a baby is to keep it an absolute secret from everyone except your partner and, maybe, your parents. After all, you can’t possibly appreciate how unimaginably boring your baby is to everyone except you and your husband - you are the only people who will find the fact of your pregnancy remotely newsworthy. Even mentioning your pregnancy to another person shows that you consider yourself to be the first woman ever to have a baby, and you must be accordingly pilloried.

Any indication that you are pregnant is also, obviously, a massive hint to everyone you know that you expect them to find your lifestyle choices through presents, and therefore is entitled and grabby. I won’t even go into baby showers, which are the equivalent of walking into your friends houses and holding a gun to their head while you demand that they throw cash at you.

Once the baby is born, you must spend a month in total seclusion with no visitors of any kind. Anyone expressing a desire to visit the baby is clearly trying to undermine your role as a mother, and should be avoided. This is time for you and your ‘little family’, and as you know, when you have a baby you immediately stop being related to your parents and siblings.

Once you are accepting visitors it’s obviously fine for your mother to move in, but your MIL is to be limited to bi-monthly visits of 16 minutes each.

It sounds like your niece has disregarded every single Rule of Acceptable Childbearing, and must therefore be condemned.

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