WOAH!: Granny, 70, demands to breastfeed her grandchild
It's not every day that you hear about a mother-in-law demanding to breastfeed her grandchild. Well, KZN, this is one of those days...
Breastfeeding is said to help grow the bond between a mother and their newborn.
It's a very personal thing, so this is why a new mother was left feeling horrified when her 70-year-old mother-in-law revealed that she wanted to breastfeed her grandchild.
And just like anyone else would, she found herself in a very awkward position, because she flat out denied the demand.
The mother wrote in her post:
This 70-year-old woman plans to breastfeed [my] sister-in-law’s first baby that’s due in a six weeks. She read that grandmas help breastfeed babies in some cultures and wants to give it a go. Now that she’s got this idea that she’s going to breastfeed ‘her grandbaby’, she’s started to come for me saying that she doesn’t want a stronger bond with one baby more than the other (my youngest baby is two months). And since he’s already here, she wants to start ‘practising’ breastfeeding with my baby in hopes it goes well and then she can breastfeed both my baby and [my] sister-in-law’s baby. She says she wants to breastfeed them at the same time ... like her eyes gloss over as if it’s some dream of hers to tandem feed them.
She continued to say:
I can't even. This woman is a special kind of delusional. Can women that age really even re-lactate?
Like any other wife stuck in a weird dilemma with her mother-in-law, she mentioned to her husband how she felt about the whole thing.
The husband defended his wife and told his mother that they didn't want her doing this, but the daughter-in-law, of course, got all the blame.
Of course this all falls onto me in her eyes, she’s mad saying I’m standing in the way of her having a closer bond with her grandbabies," she added. I’m the reason. Even though my [husband] was equally grossed out. I told her to go talk to her doctor and find a lactation consultant if it’s that important to her, but that she will never ever breastfeed any of my babies no matter what.
Many people agreed while commenting on the post that the grandmother had "crossed a line" and said they'd feel "weirded out" by her demand. Definitely weird, right!
One person wrote:
It’s inappropriate and massively crosses the line. But that should be the case, no matter mother-in-law’s age.
We have to be honest here and say that this whole situation has left us feeling uneasy.
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