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AIBU?

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Poorly baby and in laws

57 replies

satelliteheart · 26/11/2022 04:42

Let me start by saying, I love my in laws, they're a lovely family and we genuinely get on very very well. So this is not a typical mil bashing thread. Also this is my 3rd child so definitely not pfb but happy to be told IABU and just need a sanity check

Ds3 is 10 days old. Last weekend (so he was 4/5 days old) my sister and her family were due to visit. She called me in the morning to say she had a rotten cold and so they wouldn't come as she didn't want to make ds3 unwell. All fine, I said we'd rearrange when she's feeling better

The next day we had dh's family round. Mil and fil showed up with bad colds, coughing and spluttering everywhere all day, then both held ds3 for several hours. (Also worth noting they'd already met ds the day after he was born so it wasn't their first chance to see him)

Now my 10 day old baby has a cold, he's really snotty and struggling to breathe and I feel awful for him. I'm so annoyed at in-laws for coming round when they were so ill but not sure if I'm overreacting or not? I'm not an overly precious mother and always feel it's better for the kids to be exposed to things to build their immunity but ds is so tiny and it's really wound me up that he has to deal with a cold in his first few weeks of life

So I'd like to know how others would feel in this situation

OP posts:
iratepirate · 26/11/2022 08:53

cookiesbeforepookies · 26/11/2022 08:24

Surely your MIL is entitled to do what she wants in her own home to protect herself from illness?

Certainly she is! (As am I, and anyone else).

Itsabitnotcold · 26/11/2022 08:58

YANBU I hate that people do this. PILs have absolutely no understanding of infections. They invited us round for Sunday dinner then proceeded to tell us how they'd spent the last day and night both puking and shitting. How they could even eat a dinner themselves is beyond me. We obviously caught it! They just say "oh we had that last week and our friend had it when we went shopping, it kept be going round!" Yeah it bloody is now you've spread it round! Drives me mad.

deeperthanallroses · 26/11/2022 09:02

Not precious at all! I’m cuddling my 3rd and nobody with a cold goes near her except her family since we live here and it’s a bit unavoidable. ‘Oh you have a cold? Such a shame let’s reschedule.’

healthadvice123 · 26/11/2022 09:07

I wouldn't go and visit such a little baby with a cold etc

britneyisfree · 26/11/2022 09:28

10 day old baby shouldn't be in anyone's arms but their parents for hours on end regardless of cold and flu.

babyjellyfish · 26/11/2022 09:29

YANBU. I wouldn't visit a newborn baby if I had a cold.

AriettyHomily · 26/11/2022 09:38

Too late now I would have said something at the time.

I would never visit a newborn with any cold.

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