Long story, but after my husband's business failed we had to move back into my parents while we get back on our feet. This happened when DS was 8 weeks old. It's been a tough few months, but the upsides is that I've had my mum to help me out massively. She's been amazing but as my maternity leave is drawing to an end and DS is due to go into nursery, I've started noticing that DS, who is 9 months old, doesn't seem to want me anymore.
He will reach out for anyone else who is around - especially my mum, and this is really upsetting for me. Also my mum, of course, loves the attention, and seems to be making it worse by taking him off me and then going to play with him.
I am so devastated by this and starting to resent my own mother. Of course the rational, intelligent me, keeps telling myself that I am his mum - I play with him, I am the one who gets up in the night to comfort him, I am the one preparing his food. But the emotional, sensitive me is getting eaten up by this. My DH keeps telling me I'm being silly and it's in my imagination.
Is this ridiculous and is this just my guilt about leaving him and having to go back to work full time?