‘My in-laws swore at my baby – I’m so furious I’ve banned them from visiting’

A mum has been left outraged after she heard her mother-in-law curse at her daughter while babysitting – and she’s now put a ban on the woman visiting her granddaughter

If you’re a new parent that’s lucky enough to be able to call on grandparents or aunts and uncles to look after your little one for a few hours, then you’ll know just how invaluable it is to have some time to yourself.

But one mum has discovered she no longer wants her in-laws to babysit her five-month-old daughter because of the way her mother-in-law and sister-in-law acted during their last visit.

The woman explained her husband’s mum and sister came over to look after their baby while the couple enjoyed a date night, and while things seemed to be going smoothly at first, the mum was horrified when she returned home and heard her mother-in-law call her daughter a “b***h”.

In a post on Reddit, the mum wrote: “I’m very newly married. My husband and I tied the knot last Friday, but we’ve been together a year and a half. This past Saturday, my mother-in-law and sister-in-law kept our five-month-old daughter so we could go on a date.

“When we returned about four hours later, my mother-in-law told us she’d been fussy (she’s teething) and as my husband approached to pick up our daughter his mum said, ‘Here take your b***h of a daughter.'”

The woman was outraged by the comment and accused her mother-in-law of “crossing a major line”, and has now decided she doesn’t want her in-laws to babysit her daughter again.

She added: “That shocked me, to be honest, she and my sister-in-law can be crude but to call your five-month-old granddaughter a b***h crosses a major line for me and makes me question her safety while she’s there. She’s not been back. Am I overreacting?”

And commenters on Reddit were quick to reassure her she wasn’t overreacting – with many left equally as shocked by the grandmother’s comments.

One person wrote: “You’re not overreacting at all. That was terrible of her to say about your daughter.”

While another said: “Absolutely not overreacting. That’s absolutely insane to say about a five-month-old baby. Keep your child and future children far away from those people.”

And a third added: “Holy hell! I don’t even have kids, but I imagine the hands that would be flying if I did. That raised my blood pressure a bit.”

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