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Mother-In-Law Said She Was Going to Pinch My Baby
She repeated it multiple times.
When I was 28 weeks pregnant with my baby girl, my husband and I visited my mother-in-law. We had been discussing all things baby when my mother-in-law said, “I’m going to pinch the baby.” I asked what she meant, and she said that she was excited for baby girl to arrive and repeated that she was “going to pinch her”.
Really?
I found the bluntness of her statement strange but brushed it off as a harmless comment. I thought she probably meant she wanted to pinch/ squeeze the baby’s cheeks, which is a common phrase.
Two weeks later my husband and I had dinner with my mother-in-law. During dinner, she announced, “when I watch the baby, she better not fall asleep, or I will pinch her.” Again, I asked what she meant, and she repeated “I will pinch her to wake her up.” I responded by saying “you will not!”
My mother-in-law snapped back “well not hard enough to leave a bruise, calm down!”
I replied, “you will not pinch my child!” She laughed. My husband said nothing.
Seriously? Inappropriate!
After dinner, my husband and I discussed what happened. He claimed that her comments were harmless and that she…
