Meet the Other Phone. Protection built in.

Meet the Other Phone.
Protection built in.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Overbearing family with my DD or AIBU? (FTM)

3 replies

Sunandstars28 · 26/01/2025 20:09

I had my DD in November, and she is the first grandchild on both sides of the family. My husband’s family adore her and exercise healthy boundaries, acknowledging she is our baby (mine and my husband). My family also adore her, but in my opinion are being overbearing and almost possessive over her, as if she is a ‘communal baby’ that they have equal rights to. My Grandma has made comments on how DD is ‘our’ baby (as in my side of the family) and not as much my husband’s family’s. My sister had kindly sewn a few baby dresses, and has proceeded to make matching dresses for her to wear, and joked multiple times at how she and DD will match. She has shared posts on Instagram that say Aunts are as important in raising a daughter as the mother. When she visits, she constantly asks to hold the baby, even when I am trying to let DD get some much needed sleep in the daytime. The whole family seem unable to respect my request that they do not kiss the baby, and my other sister claims every time that she ‘forgets’. I find myself becoming weirdly possessive over my baby and feel as though my family don’t respect that she is MINE AND MY HUSBANDS baby, rather than a communal baby for the whole family to claim. I know they are coming from a place of love and mean no harm, which makes me think perhaps my feelings are unreasonable. Should I put up boundaries, or AIBU?

OP posts:
Notgivenuphope · 27/01/2025 00:31

The only thing you are reasonable about is the kissing.
The rest is trivial.

Jeschara · 27/01/2025 00:42

Don't get angry about this, explain that she has two sets of Grandparents, and it is not a competition.
I would let them know how lucky your daughter is with her grandparents, but they must respect boundaries. No one is more important than the parents to the baby.

JandamiHash · 27/01/2025 01:36

What in the name of suffering Jesus have I just read - your sister makes matching outfits!!

This is not normal. You have to say something

New posts on this thread. Refresh page