I have a three week old baby and had been isolating (bar hospital trips) since 33 weeks pregnant. Since having my baby we have been for a few short walks around the pond when it is virtually empty. We tend to only go for around 15 minutes as it’s a very small pond. None of my family nor my partner’s have met our baby, due to lockdown rules which we are following. My mum chose to self-isolate seven weeks ago, including keeping her two young children inside and not taking them out for any walks at all. She did this because she wanted to meet our baby. We did not ask her to do this and encouraged her to social distance and go for walks as her husband is still working and going to the shops and my other sister is a carer working full time and living with them, so it didn’t make sense for her to stay in total isolation plus the kids. My mum and I have a difficult relationship, we’re either very close or not talking. She is very self-absorbed and a little narcissistic, and has done some odd stuff since having my baby such as sending me her baby photos to show how much my son looks like her and taking my photos of me and my son that I have taken and randomly uploading them like ‘smiling for granny’. We do FaceTime her and every day but again it is often about her and how hard she is finding all of this, which I understand but it’s rarely about anyone else. Over the past week since talk of restrictions being lifted she has started to say she’ll get to see my son soon, but my partner and I have decided to wait a little longer to see what happens, because we just don’t know until restrictions are relaxed a little and id rather wait until he was around six weeks to see how things are then so only three more weeks to go if everything is safer. My DP’s family haven’t been isolating but social distancing and his dad is a funeral director so sees the severity of Covid. They have been really understanding but my mum hasn’t. She has put up statuses on Facebook saying she has isolated for nothing, has blamed me for her keeping her kids inside saying she did it all for me (again I hadn’t asked this of her and told her it was pointless), said she’s had to lock them in because of me; and that this whole ‘experience has been ripped from her’ because of all of this. I kind of feel like what about me and my DP? We’ve not had a normal pregnancy (I was quite unwell and had an early csection which meant I was in hospital alone for three days) and like other new mums have not had the norm with a new baby. But now I just feel bloody guilty even though I’m trying to protect my son. Am I wrong for wanting to keep him away from people for longer?