What to do when your parents start talking about visiting their new grandchild for over a month.
can be equal parts exciting and overwhelming for new parents. After months of second-guessing if you're really ready for parenthood and trying to play every what-if scenario in your head, suddenly you're the one in charge of this little person. Unfortunately, at the same time, you may also feel the pressure of having to manage everyone's sudden expectations of you.
"I had the absolute worst experience with my in-laws with my first child and the best with my last child," Candice D. tells POPSUGAR."I didn't set boundaries with my first because I was afraid to offend," she explains. But she ended up feeling as though her in-laws' needs overshadowed her own.with us all day, from sun up to sunset," she recalls."It was awful because I never had time alone with my baby that I'd been waiting my whole life to have.
Some examples of boundaries you might wish to set include having no visitors in the hospital when you're delivering; limiting the number of visitors you have once you bring the baby home; declining to let any visitors stay overnight or past a certain number of days; giving visitors specific tasks ; or asking visitors to refrain from posting pictures of your baby onto social media."This is where things tend to get tough for my clients," Soto admits.
Having an upfront conversation can be especially helpful"if there are familial or cultural norms that differ between your desires and that of extended family," Dr. Welsch adds.are expected to bring their baby to visit the homes of everyone who gave them gifts shortly after the birth; in others, the expectation is that family members will visit frequently — or stay at the new parents' house for several days or weeks — in order to help with cooking and cleaning.
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