Grandma banned from babysitting after ignoring daughter's simple request
A new mum has banned her own mother from babysitting duties, after she blatantly refused to follow a few basic safety instructions.
The young mum took to Reddit to share her plight, after moving back home so she could save up to buy a house, which at the time her mum "very enthusiastically agreed to".
But, after a few months of living together again, the 23-year-old mum has had more things added onto her plate, as she's constantly worried about her own mum not following her instructions when it comes to her son, who was born in September.
She said that her mum has been "constantly checking to see if he has teeth" or pushing them to "stop feeding him milk", or even trying to "give him really complicated food" like candy yams.
And whenever she expresses her concerns, her mum nonchalantly responds with: "I did with you and you survived".
It reached a peak when her mother gave her baby boy some water, which according to The World Health Organisation, children under six months should not be drinking anything else other than breast milk or formula.
This is because babies stomachs are very small and their kidneys are still developing, so they are unable to process water in the same way adults do, plus it puts them at risk of water intoxication and nutrition loss.
The grandmother blatantly ignored her daughter's request and gave her grandson water anyways responding with, "See, he's fine. He isn't dead."
That was the young mum's breaking point and she immediately took her baby away.
"She will no longer be watching the baby alone since she is constantly overstepping my boundaries and doing everything I ask her to not do," she wrote.
But she said that things are complicated since they're living together and now her mother isn't speaking to her because she made her "feel like a bad parent and grandparent."
The young mum questioned whether she was the bad guy in this scenario, but other Reddit users were quick to defend her for setting her boundaries.
"One would hope for a *little* bit more for their kid than "not dead"," one wrote.
"This is an incredibly low standard for her to be proud of maintaining", another added.
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