A woman was left furious when her mother-in-law surprised them with a tattoo for her newborn baby girl.
Sharing her frustration on Reddit, the 31-year-old mom said that she and her husband, 32, just welcomed their daughter.
“Our daughter is also the first grandchild on my husband’s side so, naturally everyone is excited,” she wrote.
But the woman said that her mother-in-law took it “to a whole other level.”
“She kept saying how she wanted everyone to be together and she just didn’t understand why we couldn’t. So, in order to appease her, we decided that she and (father-in-law) could come up on Christmas eve to spend the day,” the woman continued.
“She told me and my husband that she had one last gift for our daughter and handed us an envelope.”
“My husband proceeded to open the card and read it out loud. To sum it up, it said that she loved our daughter so much that she decided to get something for her and herself.”
“What does that even mean?! We both look up and there she was pulling down her collar to show us a huge tattoo on her chest of a heart-shaped pearl necklace (my daughter’s birthstone), a couple of roses (birth flower) and our daughter’s name.
“I could feel the tears building up inside me. I turned to my husband and basically excused myself with my daughter to ‘feed her’.”
The woman continued: “I balled my eyes out in my bedroom. I wanted to get a tattoo of my daughter/ other children (we plan on having more) but I can’t right now because I’m breastfeeding.
“I was so upset because not only did my mother-in-law take her name but she also took her birthstone and flower!”
After calming herself down, she went out of the room and saw her mother-in-law crying.
The woman apologized to her mother-in-law, who said that she “discussed her plans with (father-in-law) and their friends and everyone gave her the green light.
“I told her that my daughter was 6 months old and had no idea what a tattoo is and that she did this for attention just like everything else she does.”
She then told her mother-in-law that she was ‘overstepping,’ but the grandmother explained that she just wanted to be ‘close’ to her.
The woman is now asking people whether she was in the wrong for lashing out at her mother-in-law.
One person commented: “I fail to see why her getting a tattoo on her body is a problem and means you can’t get one. Like seriously who cares? Every single tattoo is unique so what’s it matter if you get one too?”
Another wrote: “It is VERY weird to get a tattoo representing someone else’s child without the parent’s knowledge or consent.”
A third said: “I find it so bizarre what the (mother-in-law) did. I also don’t like that people are writing off [original poster] getting upset about it as postpartum hormones. No. She’s just upset. Her feelings are valid. I would be SO uncomfortable if anyone in my family got a giant tattoo of my child. Doesn’t matter if it’s their body. It’s my child. So weird.”
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