This is going to be a long one. Thought I'd share my experience (so far). As you will tell by how I write this, I've learned far too long ago to not take anything she says seriously, and I am sure a few of you will get a chuckle out of how she is acting.
I found out I was pregnant at 4 weeks. The day I found out, I called every one to tell them the news. The reveal to my mother went as I had expected it would.
"Is that a good thing or a bad thing?" Was her response, and I swear I could hear her eyes rolling over the phone. Right after that, she dropped "Why didn't you wait like I did?"
She was 26 when she had me. I am 24, will be 25 by the time the baby is born, this is my first pregnancy, been married for the past five years, this is my husband's first also, her first grandchild as I am an only child, we are beyond financially stable, have more than enough space for another human being to be in the house, and have plans to build a house later this year (that was in the works before getting pregnant). I had my first OB visit a couple of weeks later. During the visit it was discovered my pelvis is not wide enough for me to give birth vaginally. This was no shocker to me being as my paternal grandmother had the same problem. I am also under five foot tall, have been drastically underweight my whole life, and I had HBP years before getting pregnant. I was immediately labeled a high risk pregnancy (again, I was not stunned. I actually expected it), and I am destined for a c-section. I was wanting one anyway, because my husband works international oilfield, so it's not like he can be home within a couple of hours if I were to go into labor while he is gone. My mother calls a few days after the visit to ask how it went. Since explaining why it has be a c-section, she now constantly tries to get me to change my mind. She says things like "that is the lazy way out" and "if I did it, then so can you", and the words "unnatural", "needless", and "pointless" are regularly mentioned. She even made the utterly absurd comment that I "might grow before the baby is born". I'm 24. My growth spurt days have long been over. Amongst other things, she is annoyed that I am not using the OB/GYN she sees and for some reason is angry that I cannot eat certain foods (heeellooo!!! pregnant with high blood pressure!!!). My husband and I have opted for a prenatal genetics test. His sister is mentally handicapped, and cystic fibrosis runs in his family. I know nothing of my family's medical background other than horrible eye sight and high blood pressure. My mother: "They didn't have that (amnio, cvs, etc) when I was pregnant with you. All it's for is to make more money off of you."
If you haven't noticed, my mother is the type who must make every situation about herself (if you think this is bad, you should have seen what happened when I got engaged). I have been able to rebuff her comments with sarcasm, but I do get short with her at times. My husband chuckles along side me when I tell him the things she says (she won't mention anything in front of him). He once described her comments as that of "the aunt who stays drunk during the holidays". His mother and I have been joking about it as well. She told me one day to prepare for when my mother tries to dictate how to raise the child.
"Raise it? Hell, she's trying to tell me how to give birth to it."
"Oh geez. She's taking my job away from me."
My father's attitude has been drastically opposite of my mother's. He generally doesn't care what decision is made as long as everyone comes out healthy and alive. If he has said anything to her about her behavior, none of it has been done in front of me, and I don't believe he has. He will handle so much of something for so long before he gets tired of it and blows up. I guess since I have not been letting it bother me, then he isn't going to. Other family members and my mother's coworkers have been getting annoyed and telling her she needs to butt out of my life, "it's not your child", she is being ignorant or immature, she just needs to get over it, and my favorite "She cannot push a baby out of her loins! What part of that is difficult for you to understand?!?". I tell them to just pay no mind to her, because no matter how you tell her to shut up, she will not move on.
Re: My mother, my biggest critic, and I've been laughing at her.