A woman has shared her frustration as her mother-in-law (MIL) won’t stop going to her bedroom despite asking her not to do so.
Taking to Mumsnet, the woman explained that she was on maternity leave and her MIL would come over to watch over her baby for a few hours.
“I sleep in a bed beside my son’s cot in the nursery and my husband sleeps in the master,” she wrote. “Because my bedroom is also technically ‘the nursery’ my mother-in-law feels she can go into it as she pleases.”
“Her argument is she needs to be able to put my son down for his naps, but the time she regularly comes doesn’t overlap with his nap times, I always put him down before and after her visits,” the woman went on.
She said that her MIL just goes inside the room when she wants to “but I feel she needs to be more respectful and only go in when necessary,” she went on.
Her husband also told his mother not to lie in the bed as it was leaving his wife uncomfortable.
“But the other day she really p****d me off. My son was still napping when she came – I was alone in the kitchen and saw him cry on the baby cam, I walked into the nursery to find her half on the bed with her face up to him,” she continued, explaining that she thought her MIL was in the living room.
“He did his scared ‘wtf’ cry and I said annoyed ‘oh…hello..?!’ and my husband, also annoyed, asked her to leave (he works from home),” she went on.
Her MIL then said that the baby was already awake but the woman insisted that it wasn’t the point.
“I feel like a teenager shouting at my mum (in-law) ‘get out of my room!!’ Am I being unreasonable?”
People on the forum were quick to share their thoughts on the matter, with one person writing: “It’s not your bedroom it’s the baby’s room that you sleep in. If you’re not happy with the free childcare she’s providing, then look elsewhere.”
Another said: “She probably sees it as a bed for whoever is in the nursery at the time rather than your shared bedroom?”
A third added: “In what way is she not ‘respectful’? She is doing you a massive favor – I should stop griping if I were you.”
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