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February 2014 Moms
janica6
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My parents' excitement is driving me CRAZY!!!
janica6
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We're having our first child and my parents' first grandchild. To put things short, they're both crazy excited. My Dad has been sending these EPIC mushy emails about how he can't wait to meet his grandson, know what his personality's like, hold him, see what he looks like, learn whether he's artistic or mathematic or funny or sporty, play with hin, cuddle with him, etc. etc. etc. He is so overly emotional that it makes me even more nervous if something goes wrong!! I know he's just excited, but it's driving me crazy and just seems way over the top.
My Mom has been much more manageable (and helpful) but last week she posted this big announcement on facebook that she was going to be a grandma to a little boy (this was on the same day we found out the gender). We hadn't even made the announcement ourselves yet!! I asked her to please take it down. They both have been asking me constantly when they can tell their friends, and I keep asking them to please be patient! I have a higher risk pregnancy because of previous LEEP surgeries, and want to wait and see how things progress before announcing the news to everyone. Why can't they just be patient like we are?? Only a few of our close friends know.
Lastly, on the phone last week my Dad was already asking me whether we had decided if we wanted family members (ie. him) at the birth. I think we want just the two of us to be there, with family members coming later once we're home and adjusted to our new life with baby. This is new for us, too. I know how excited both of them are and of course I'm also excited to share this with them as well, but can't we just get a little space sometimes and be given time to share and decide things as we're ready??
Is anyone else struggling with this? How do you handle it?
My Mom has been much more manageable (and helpful) but last week she posted this big announcement on facebook that she was going to be a grandma to a little boy (this was on the same day we found out the gender). We hadn't even made the announcement ourselves yet!! I asked her to please take it down. They both have been asking me constantly when they can tell their friends, and I keep asking them to please be patient! I have a higher risk pregnancy because of previous LEEP surgeries, and want to wait and see how things progress before announcing the news to everyone. Why can't they just be patient like we are?? Only a few of our close friends know.
Lastly, on the phone last week my Dad was already asking me whether we had decided if we wanted family members (ie. him) at the birth. I think we want just the two of us to be there, with family members coming later once we're home and adjusted to our new life with baby. This is new for us, too. I know how excited both of them are and of course I'm also excited to share this with them as well, but can't we just get a little space sometimes and be given time to share and decide things as we're ready??
Is anyone else struggling with this? How do you handle it?
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Re: My parents' excitement is driving me CRAZY!!!
This is second granddaughter for my parents and first grandbaby for DH's parents, and they're all excited. No one outed me on FB but my Dad told all his friends really early. Luckily I don't live in the same city so it didn't bother me much.
Luckily we lived very far away because I would have flipped after everything she did during my pregnancy (^just the icing on the cake, she was a nightmare)
I had to get DH to talk to her and we wound up not telling her anything until everyone else already knew.