📝 MIL insists on kissing newborn

By ParadiseDreamer2900 • Score: 123 • April 20, 2025 6:56 PM


I’m due in a few weeks and have set clear boundaries for visitors that include no kissing my newborn anywhere on his body. I have a 2 year old daughter and when my MIL came to visit her, she constantly kissed her all over her face when I left the room and even several times right next to me and when I reminded her not to kiss her, she would say things like “whoops! Sorry I forgot”. That would make sense if it happened once or twice but it happened every time she would visit. Now that we’ll be having baby 2 soon, I asked my husband to have a serious convo with her about not kissing our newborn. Her feelings were hurt and she isn’t happy with this. I told hubby that if she kisses him even once this time, I’ll immediately ask her to leave and she will lose the privilege of visiting her grandson until his immune system is mature and until I’m ready for her to come back. Hubby is upset with me and thinks I’m being too cautious and I feel that no responsibility is being placed on his mom for flat out disrespecting my boundaries, that’s being totally overlooked. I’m really concerned our marriage is going to crumble after having our new baby because of this (as well as many other reasons) related to his family and their lack of respect for ours.

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