November 4th 2023.
After falling out over childcare, a woman has told her mum that she can no longer be trusted to watch her three-month-old son. The 25-year-old new mum and her husband had been trying to save money on their house renovations, so they decided to reach out to the grandmother as they couldn’t afford to hire professional childcare.
However, the grandmother ran out of pumped breast milk whilst feeding the baby and replaced it with formula without consulting her daughter. She then tried to downplay what happened next.
The mother wrote on Reddit that her grandmother had said that the baby was ‘just a little fussy’. But the mum was not happy to hear this. She was also shocked to discover that her grandma had suggested that her mum put corn syrup in the baby’s bottle to help him poop, without asking her daughter or looking up the risks.
The mum was understandably angry and told her mother that she couldn’t trust her to watch her son anymore as she was too comfortable exposing him to new things without her consent. The mother said that her mum had argued that she was doing her a favour by watching her son for free and that if he’s in her care, she ultimately has final say about what to do.
The comments on Reddit mostly branded the new mum in the right and her mother in the wrong. One person wrote, ‘She’s damn lucky this didn’t cause him more serious problems. They’ve been mothers longer, but you’ve been your son’s mother his entire life, and you know him better than anybody.’ Another said, ‘If she can’t let go of her pride enough to admit she made a mistake in not reaching out to you first and to admit that best practice when it comes to infant care has changed…then no, she can’t be trusted.’
The overwhelming consensus was that the mother had every right to pull the plug if she felt her mum was putting her son’s health at risk. People suggested that the trust between the two needed to be rebuilt, but it would take time.
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