To be annoyed that I've batched cooked for postpartum and DP is eating all of the food now?

[catmum789]

So me and DP are in the process of buying a house and cause of circumstances I cannot stay round his current house every night because he has a son and I need to work and can't work and be a babysitter. The new house will have an office on the third floor. I stay over only 2/3 nights a week. This weekend I have stood for hours and batch cooked lots of freezer meals for when our baby comes (I am 33 weeks pregnant, no judgement we are buying a house and will have a house by the time baby is here, there are problems with our sellers that are holding the sale up) so on the days I'm not at his he has been telling me that he and his son have been eating the food I prepared for when baby is here so most things have gone!!! Im annoyed cause I portioned the meals out for 2 so we can put them in the oven when baby is here and I don't have to stress. But he has been eating them with his son who already has a hot hearty meal at nursery. He's ate the food I spent hours preparing bare in mind I stood for hours with sciatica and an iron deficiency so constant heart palpitations when I was doing it and he was watching the football!!! Urgh please someone tell me if I'm being a hormonal monster or if you get where I'm coming from!

[stayignorant]

@Rangoon

I think that the number of posters who are attacking a vulnerable pregnant woman on this thread should be ashamed of themselves. She isn't the stepmother as somebody pointed out - she's just the dad's pregnant girlfriend who doesn't even live there. Even if she was the stepmother, the stepchild would be her husband's responsibility.

She cooked some food to make it a bit easier when the baby is born when she wasn't feeling well while he watched football. Her selfish DP who knew what the food was for just scoffed the lot because it was easier for him to do so than put a meal together for himself and his son. The DP has no intention of replacing that food. Somehow, the OP is now seen as grudging food to the toddler.

To top it off, her partner is saying that the baby is going to be her total financial responsibility because he is going to be supporting the toddler.

Well said.

[stayignorant]

Can people just stop attacking the OP now? Yes PPs may have read OP's previous posts but this one was in relation to something else.. she wasn't asking what people think of her relationship with her DP or his son, what/when she should be feeding said child or if she's going to be able to cope with their current family/living situation. Why don't people just mind their own business instead of speculating about someone else's life when it's not needed?

[Viviennemary]

Can people stop policing threads. If you have a complaint then report it to MN.

[Getyourarseofffthequattro]

@Viviennemary

Can people stop policing threads. If you have a complaint then report it to MN.

MN equally don't give a shit when it's an attack on a step mum / dads girlfriend / whatever we are calling a woman involved with a step child. There's no point reporting, they won't do anything.

[stayignorant]

@Viviennemary

Can people stop policing threads. If you have a complaint then report it to MN.

Just sticking up for OP.. at least there are a few nice replies here in amongst all the shitty ones.

[hotmeatymilk]

The thing is @Viviennemary no one’s breaking talk guidelines so there’s nothing to report, no name calling or trolling; the key posters know exactly what they’re doing (and it’s the same old names) with their faux-concern, head-tilty confusion over which freezer, pretend “I mean this gently” advice on feeding her stepson, etc etc. It’s a velvet-gloved attack designed to elude moderation.

And no one here is policing (aside from perhaps you, telling us not to police): we’re counter-arguing against the Evil Stepmonster Begrudging Her Child Food storyline, debating against the But Children Can Eat Spicy Food derails and Why Are You Buying a New Freezer? distractions, and generally focusing on the key point: the DP is a twat.

[BeyondOurReef]

@Viviennemary

Can people stop policing threads. If you have a complaint then report it to MN.

It’s not policing a thread to point out that the poor OP has fallen foul of the curse of admitting there’s a stepchild.

[Viviennemary]

I give up. OP has asked for opinions. They differ. Some people seem to have a huge problem with that.

[Getyourarseofffthequattro]

@Viviennemary

I give up. OP has asked for opinions. They differ. Some people seem to have a huge problem with that.

But she's asked for opinions on one specific thing. The faux concern brigade have given her opinions on anything but.

[tallduckandhandsome]

I think people are trying to prevent a pile-on a woman who has struggled with anorexia in the past and who is actively trying to prevent falling back into it.

[hotmeatymilk]

The OP asked Urgh please someone tell me if I'm being a hormonal monster or if you get where I'm coming from! not “please critique my stepson’s diet, give me advice on meal timings and family meal plans for a four-year-old, tell me how many portions to make to ensure my stepson is adequately fed when I’m not there, and nitpick at whose freezer I’m daring to use”. Reading is everything!

[timeisnotaline]

The bigger problem is I can’t see where the op is being looked after here. She’s pregnant, and regularly cooking for her dp, and the efforts she’s made to have healthy food for herself after birth have just been sabotaged. Why is he a good guy? When is he going to take care of the woman having his baby? Why wasn’t he hugely apologetic? Will he be cooking fresh healthy food for you when baby is born? You’re not hormonal. It wouldn’t be hormonal to cook some more and put it in the freezer with a big sign on it saying if you’re thinking of stealing food from the pregnant woman who was in pain to stand while cooking this to try and prepare for when OUR baby is born then FUCK OFF.

[FOJN]

I give up. OP has asked for opinions. They differ. Some people seem to have a huge problem with that.

If the opinions had been confined to the ones asked for I don't think anyone would have an issue but the responses have detoured away from the original question.

Why was the food in DP's freezer?
Why don't you live with DP, is it to avoid his child?
Why are you begrudging a child food?
Why have you bought a big fridge freezer?
You're unreasonable to think DP wouldn't eat the food you prepared.
Your selfishness means the relationship is doomed to fail unless you take greater (than the father) parenting responsibility for a child you don't live with and isn't yours?
This doesn't add up, the child is now eating the food you said they didn't like.

And on and on and on...

Not sure why you're so invested in characterising this as some people just having different opinions. Most who seem to have strong opinions have clearly not even read the thread. Its bullying nothing more.

Perhaps one day women won't feel the need to leap to the defence of shit father's.

[BeyondOurReef]

@hotmeatymilk

The OP asked Urgh please someone tell me if I'm being a hormonal monster or if you get where I'm coming from! not “please critique my stepson’s diet, give me advice on meal timings and family meal plans for a four-year-old, tell me how many portions to make to ensure my stepson is adequately fed when I’m not there, and nitpick at whose freezer I’m daring to use”. Reading is everything!

Well exactly.

But she foolishly mentioned the stepson, so clearly his diet is entirely her responsibility.

Looking at a PP’s summary of the situation more generally (presumably gleaned from other threads?), this sounds like an awful situation with a truly dreadful partner. He’s looking out for himself and not looking after the vulnerable young woman he got pregnant. In fact, he is undermining her own efforts to look after herself and the baby. All because he’s too lazy to cook for himself and his son.

Yet, apparently she’s the problem for making extra portions of food for a child she doesn’t live with, has a father who should be doing basic stuff like cooking for him, and who goes to bed before she’ll even be eating the food she’s cooked.

@catmum789 my suggestion would be not to buy a house with this man. Talk to your midwife about the whole situation - and the HV, who can definitely help you avoid getting yourself further entangled in this mess. It’s part of their job. You can claim benefits and have that pay your rent. Your partner can pay you child maintenance. And you can have your own freezer full of single portioned meals for when you want them.

[candlelightsatdawn]

I'm actually on the floor on some of these comments.

I have the right to be completely vile to a vulnerable person on MN as is my right and stop trying to police my rights to be vile 🤯 report me knowing I haven't used any foul language so my comments remain yes yes we know what your up to 🙄 some of the op of have been sniffing glue and clearly think bullying is ok because the poor Op mentioned she has a SC.
Your not actually being helpful by derailing the thread with helpful comments such as "you clearly hate your SC" and it says more about you as a person than it does the OP.

OP it sounds like your trying to manage a ED which is truly horrific when pregnant at best of times, and trying to look after yourself and the baby. That's to be commended.

Your DH is a 🔔 end and should be replacing the food he's eaten and I would be having a stern word with him. Your not being unreasonable.

[candlelightsatdawn]

@hotmeatymilk

And this is where the entire arrangement is going to fall apart. You're either a family of four, or 2 families of 2.
No, the arrangement falls apart where the dad is a twat who eats all the postpartum batch cooking – when the OP isn’t even there and she’s the one who cooked it! – where he’s a twat who watches football while his heavily pregnant partner cooks it, where he’s a twat who says the baby is her financial responsibility, where he’s a twat who doesn’t cook for his family of (soon to be) four.

This all of this. Worded beautifully.

[Feedingthebirds1]

@L0stinCyberspace

There's one thing that doesn't make sense OP. You say your DSS was fussy about food you previously made him and that's why you won't cook for him now.

Why then is he now eating the portions of food you prepared, with his DF?

There's no guarantee that the DS is actually eating it. It may well be that the arsehole of a father is putting it in front of his son and considering that that's the job done, whether he eats it or not.

[youvegottenminuteslynn]

He has even said to me that I will have to take all the financial responsibility for baby as he has to pay for DSS, is this normal?

Bearing in mind OP's 'partner' recently said this, people might want to reconsider their position that she is treating DSS poorly.

OP - your partner is a prick. The sheer arrogance of him saying your joint baby is solely your financial responsibility, not his, is ridiculous.

He's saying his existing son should get the support of both parents (true) but your soon to be baby should get the financial support of one parent (ridiculous).

He's an arsehole, the batch cooking is a red herring in a way as you've got much bigger issues at hand. This is indicative though of him viewing the fact your lives will soon change as your problem to deal with.

[BeyondOurReef]

@youvegottenminuteslynn

He has even said to me that I will have to take all the financial responsibility for baby as he has to pay for DSS, is this normal?

Bearing in mind OP's 'partner' recently said this, people might want to reconsider their position that she is treating DSS poorly.

OP - your partner is a prick. The sheer arrogance of him saying your joint baby is solely your financial responsibility, not his, is ridiculous.

He's saying his existing son should get the support of both parents (true) but your soon to be baby should get the financial support of one parent (ridiculous).

He's an arsehole, the batch cooking is a red herring in a way as you've got much bigger issues at hand. This is indicative though of him viewing the fact your lives will soon change as your problem to deal with.

Yep. He’s an utter arsehole.

If @catmum789 doesn’t move in with him, he’ll be forced to pay for the baby via CMS

He’s not a nice man.

[timeisnotaline]

Oh I missed where he said the op has to pay for the baby on her own. Op, what you really should do is PULL OUT of the house purchase and find somewhere to live immediately, where you can cook your own food without twatface eating it, you will still be paying for yourself but you can also claim cms so he will actually contribute something, and you only have one baby to look after not one baby plus one adult baby but his child. Seriously, you will be well rid of him.

[stayignorant]

@candlelightsatdawn

I'm actually on the floor on some of these comments.

I have the right to be completely vile to a vulnerable person on MN as is my right and stop trying to police my rights to be vile 🤯 report me knowing I haven't used any foul language so my comments remain yes yes we know what your up to 🙄 some of the op of have been sniffing glue and clearly think bullying is ok because the poor Op mentioned she has a SC.
Your not actually being helpful by derailing the thread with helpful comments such as "you clearly hate your SC" and it says more about you as a person than it does the OP.

OP it sounds like your trying to manage a ED which is truly horrific when pregnant at best of times, and trying to look after yourself and the baby. That's to be commended.

Your DH is a 🔔 end and should be replacing the food he's eaten and I would be having a stern word with him. Your not being unreasonable.

Completely agree with everything you said! Why are PPs being told off for defending the OP?! People don't like that their replies are being contradicted and ridiculed because what they said is wrong 😑 and plain bullying. No one is 'policing' here.

I hope that the OP is just taking it in her stride but I can't say it wouldn't upset me reading all these judgemental comments, especially at 33 weeks pregnant.

[me4real]

why would someone who gets pain from standing too long spend hours batch cooking food for a house they don’t even live in when her DP is more than capable of cooking once the baby is here and she will be able to cook without being in pain.

@WonderfulYou The reason why she's cooking now is that she's heard how knackered etc people are when they have a new baby and she thinks it will be harder after the birth than it is now, and this saves her a job after the birth. Of course it might well be harder to cook with a new LO. Makes sense to me.

She’s also brought herself a massive new grudge fridge freezer even though she moving any day now.

You pick on OP for storing stuff in her partner's freezer and then you criticize her for buying a freezer. She can't win.

[candlelightsatdawn]

@stayignorant she had this misfortune to mention the her DP has another child from the first family. Also she doesn't belong to the golden uterus crew which means she needs to be nailed to the wall.

The hand wringing and subtle and not so subtle digs are just how second families and SM are treated on here.

It's sad actually because she was clear about how vulnerable she is, what's she's struggling with aka DH being a hideous person, and somehow it got turned into a kick the SM and solely focused on SC eating habits.

Betting some of these people post on social media "my inbox is open if your ever struggling with MH issues" 🤮and "be kind" when they aren't actually able to practice what they preach. Virtue signally at its finest.

[SugarlumpsesBumpses]

He sounds rude and ignorant. Haven't read many of these updates just your OP so sorry if you've updated lots.

You have gone through the effort of making food to make all your lives easier after baby arrives and he has disregarded it.

If his child needs to eat he could make a meal for them could he not? Why does he need to be using you. You aren't his chef or the designated cook for his child. That is his responsibility.

I think it's going to be potentially tough going when baby is here OP, he has given you a glimpse into how inconsiderate he can be. You are pissed off now with this behaviour, consider how you will feel after weeks of no sleep and a small demanding and draining human to care for?! Hard words with 'D'P now or future planning for you is the best course I think.

[me4real]

Others have probably said this, but as the OP has had anorexia then of course it's better for her to plan/arrange meals as she has, rather than cook on the hoof.

They have to eat certain amounts (probably at certain times) it's part of what they're advised to do as part of their recovery, including used at inpatient units.

If the person cooks as required/desired without a plan, they find it easier to fall back into bad habits- this applies to those who overeat so I imagine it applies to those that undereat, too.
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Her partner is kind of evil/arseholey though and I don't think she should be with him.