Out of curiosity, just wondering how you feel if someone refers to your baby as "my" or "our" baby
How do you feel about someone other than your SO saying "our baby" or "my baby" 180 votes
It doesn't bother me one bit
I only hate it when my MIL says it.
Depends how the hormones are that day
Re: How do you feel about someone other than your SO saying "our baby" or "my baby"
TFMC 08.02.13 at 19+ weeks. Everyday I grieve for my little Olive.
Emma Rose - 9.14.05 Beckett - 5.26.07 Sawyer - 9.22.12 Lennon Mae - 9.26.14
Totally MIL. Because no 3 yr old likes to dance unless their grandmother does. Give me a fucking break. I just roll my eyes and keep it movin.
Thank you! And she always tells my kids to call her AUNT Lynette. They don't, it's weird. She's only 45, if she was 90 I think I would be cool with it.
Emma Rose - 9.14.05 Beckett - 5.26.07 Sawyer - 9.22.12 Lennon Mae - 9.26.14
My MIL says "Nana's baby" instead of my DD's name all the time.
My mom does the same but somehow when it's said in Spanish it sounds sweeter (?)
I have girlfriends that ask how's my baby doing?
In the end it doesn't bother me because all of these people know who her parents are and "who's really running the show".
It takes a village....
Wait what were we talking about? ...Oh right - No, don't call my baby, your baby. It's my baby!
Hahaha yesterday DH's grandmother was like oh look she has my double chin! I laughed like yeah that was probably the doughnuts!
Now that time has passed, I can see that she only says it out of love - not trying to one up me or be territorial, etc, so it no longer bothers me. As far as I am concerned, the more people in DD's (and soon to be DS's) lives that love them unconditionally, the better. I am not going to damage my/their relationship with MIL/grandma over something as minor as her saying "my" baby.
That being said, she is a wonderful MIL (for the most part!). If I thought she was saying it out of spite, malice, to try to mark her territory, etc. it would bother me.
Baby Turtle - November 2014
Honestly I am more worried about DHs family. They are very involved in their church, and we have yet to find a good church home where we live, and they keep bringing it up to me like its my fault. Um, talk to your son. I am not getting involved in some religious debate with them.
I agree with this for the most part but it doesn't change the fact that I want to punch my mother in the face whenever she says it. She knows NOTHING about my son who is 21.5 months old, doesn't call, doesn't text, nothing, and yet had the audacity to think I wanted her drug addicted ass to come stay in my home with my child while we were at the hospital - No mother fucking way. My step-mother is right up there with me wanting to punch in the face when this is said but it's for different reasons.
Anyone else I could give two shits because it's just words but it makes my homicidal when my mother or step-mother say it. HOMICIDAL.