Does this annoy you too?

emily1414

Okay so I'm wondering if anyone else find the following annoying or if it is just my pregnancy short fuse kicking in.

If I'm joking around about something saying that I'm going to get on my motorcycle and ride out of town or that I'm ready to have a pretend cage match with my annoying co-worker, my father's fiance says,"You better not hurt my grandbaby!" With all seriousness in her voice, I get really pissed off. It's like she's taking ownership of MY child and insinuating that I would put my baby in harms way. This is really pissing me off today for some reason. And no kidding, I am clearly laughing and joking when I've said these things.

 Anyone else experiencing this with MIL, mothers, step mothers, etc and getting annoyed?

ermaderma

DH and my mom have said stuff like this, but only jokingly.

I think I would be creeped out if they were completely serious.

LadyBugLove7

cmoosey:

The first words out of my MILs mouth when my BIL, SIL and nephew walk in her house

"Theres my baby!!  "

Uh, excused me?  She said something along the same lines to me the night we told them.  I quickly said "well, its really your grandbaby...its my baby.." 

I hate that so much.  She hasn't said it since I told her that. 

I'm going to have to remember that one! 

Mrs.K23

my mom has already claimed this baby as "hers" and claims that she will be not only the primary grandparent but the baby's main influence (we live 3000 miles apart).  She has also been having sympathy pregnancy. Yes, this bothers me.  I actually had ot tell her, stop t this is MY Pregnancy.  No, I won't do anything about it until she tries to shrink that 3000 miles!

TheFannins729

when i was pregnant with ds, my sil told me that the baby was the family's, not mine.  dh told me to get in the car and lock the doors.

things have definitely calmed down in that department now that she has a grandbaby of her own.

PurplePanda83

My step-dad keeps reffering to the baby as James Harrison - which is what they would have named by little brother, had I ever had one. It is a fine name, but we are far from deciding what will name our baby IF the baby is even a boy. And when we do decide it will be our choice, not his!

 

babyjaq

LOL!  Ok, when we told MIL about the preg I joked and said "if it's not a boy I'm demanding a full refund" (already have a girl) ... she seemed to get really offended and said "I'll take care of the baby give it to me..."  I was like WTF are you kidding me lady!  People are very annoying! :-)  pregnancy short fuse or not!

emily1414

cmoosey:

The first words out of my MILs mouth when my BIL, SIL and nephew walk in her house

"Theres my baby!!  "

Uh, excused me?  She said something along the same lines to me the night we told them.  I quickly said "well, its really your grandbaby...its my baby.." 

I hate that so much.  She hasn't said it since I told her that. 

Good for you! Perhaps I'll say something along the lines of, "Do you really think I'd endanger MY child? Gotta learn to take a joke with this side of the family."

emily1414

Thanks Ladies! Glad to know I'm not the only one annoyed and experiencing this! I really appreciate the support of the September Mama's!

viccstaa

Just picking out the "Grandbaby" part- My dad uses the word "grandbaby" all the freakin' time- even when I wasn't pregnant and the word just drives me INSANE! It just sounds stupid to me and the more he says it the more I want to kick him in the face

emily1414

viccstaa:

Just picking out the "Grandbaby" part- My dad uses the word "grandbaby" all the freakin' time- even when I wasn't pregnant and the word just drives me INSANE! It just sounds stupid to me and the more he says it the more I want to kick him in the face

 KICK HIM IN THE FACE! That is so funny. My choice phrase this week has been "Punch in the throat". If you don't mind, I'm totally going to use kick in the face next week!

 I can't stand the word Grandbaby either.

viccstaa

by all means- what's mine is yours

I'll be adding "punch in the throat" to my list of phrases. 

hisaak

Ah, "throat punch" - one of my favorite phrases

And yes, I find it terribly bothersome when people how I am feeling and when I mention nauseous and sometimes struggling to eat they respond with "well, make sure to feed our baby!"  Um yeah, sure.

BluBerryMuffin

My MIL is convinced that my exercise routine (dance class once a week, yoga a few times a month) will cause me to have a miscarriage.  She blames every symptom I have on my exercise- even my hyperemesis! She says she never exercised when she was pregnant- I had to point out that she has never exercised, period. Ever. I wanted sooo badly to say maybe if she did exercise, she wouldn't still have the baby weight 33 years after giving birth!! Grrrrr.

KristinaIsAGeek

Ugh, yes! Sometimes it's cute when my mom looks at a baby and says, "Oh, my grandson/daughter will look like that."

 

Then other times, she tries to force baby names on me that she never got to use (as it is only myself and my brother), while critiquing the names FI and I have picked out. So irritating. That, combined with the unwanted medical advice and overly cautious mom-isms are enough to make me want to pull my hair out.

 

I'm totally with you on this one!