{"id":1439,"date":"2025-02-04T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adz.clicktoplay.net\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/woman-kisses-her-baby-in-front-of-mil-while-shes-not-allowed-to-gets-asked-to-stop-but-refuses\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T15:35:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T15:35:57","slug":"woman-kisses-her-baby-in-front-of-mil-while-shes-not-allowed-to-gets-asked-to-stop-but-refuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adz.clicktoplay.net\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/woman-kisses-her-baby-in-front-of-mil-while-shes-not-allowed-to-gets-asked-to-stop-but-refuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Kisses Her Baby In Front Of MIL While She\u2019s Not Allowed To, Gets Asked To Stop But Refuses"},"content":{"rendered":"

A mother was advised by a pediatrician to only let the baby\u2019s parents kiss the newborn, but her MIL had a different take on it<\/h3>\n
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The mother told her extended family members that no one can kiss the baby yet<\/p>\n

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Seeing the mother kiss the baby before putting her to sleep, the baby\u2019s grandmother asked if the \u201cno kissing\u201d rule had been changed<\/h3>\n
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The baby\u2019s mother responded that \u201cno kissing\u201d was only meant for people other than the baby\u2019s parents and got called a hypocrite<\/h3>\n

A young mother brought it to the Reddit community online after her disagreement with her mother-in-law and her sister-in-law, who called the woman a hypocrite for not letting people other than the baby\u2019s parents kiss her until she turns at least 8-12 weeks.<\/p>\n

Despite the baby\u2019s pediatrician recommending just that, the incident happened after the woman didn\u2019t explicitly state that the baby\u2019s parents are allowed to kiss their own baby and the baby\u2019s grandmother acted surprised when she saw the baby\u2019s mother kiss the baby before setting her to nap on her chest.<\/p>\n

In the beginning, the baby\u2019s grandmother inquired if the pediatrician had updated the rules, and upon receiving a negative answer, she accused the baby\u2019s mother of violating the rules, which culminated in the grandmother calling her daughter-in-law a hypocrite.<\/p>\n

While the baby\u2019s grandmother eventually did apologize, she requested that the baby\u2019s mother refrain from kissing her baby in front of her. To that, the mother explained that while she sympathized with the urge to kiss the baby, she wasn\u2019t going to stop kissing the girl in front of her mother-in-law.<\/p>\n

This led to the woman\u2019s mother-in-law as well as her sister-in-law coming back to calling the baby\u2019s mother a hypocrite and accusing her of being disrespectful.<\/p>\n

The baby\u2019s grandmother eventually apologized but requested that the baby\u2019s mother not kiss her baby in front of her<\/h3>\n
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The baby\u2019s mother refused to stop kissing her baby in front of her mother-in-law and was called disrespectful<\/h3>\n

The question of baby kissing might be briefly summed up as follows. On the one hand, touching and human contact are among crucial needs of a human baby in addition to newborns being very \u201ckissable\u201d indeed. Yet, based on recommendations of pediatricians, parents are strongly advised to ask the baby\u2019s grandparents to wait until their little one is a little older.<\/p>\n

This is due to the newborn\u2019s immune system being very fragile and unlearned, making any virus potentially dangerous. For this reason, it is\u00a0advised<\/a>\u00a0to keep the lip-restraining rules for people outside an infant\u2019s household, which might include extended family and grandparents.\u00a0According to<\/a>\u00a0pediatrician Camile Sabella, ideally grandparents should refrain from kissing the baby for the first two-three months of the baby\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

Naturally, asking the grandparents to not kiss the baby might lead to parents second-guessing if they are not being overprotective or causing some tension among extended family members. For this reason, Joshua Bartlett for Natural Baby Life\u00a0listed<\/a>\u00a0tips on how to discuss boundaries of this sort with the child\u2019s grandparents.<\/p>\n

They started by suggesting to assume the best \u2013 mostly, grandparents are coming from a place of excitement and love, rather than effort to control and undermine the baby\u2019s parents.<\/p>\n

They advised explaining to the baby\u2019s grandparents that these restraints are temporary and necessary due to fragile immune system of a newborn, rather than personal preferences.<\/p>\n

Natural Baby Life also advised pointing to an article on the topic and having the conversation in advance, possibly even before the baby is born, so that grandparents have time to process the request.\u00a0Finally, Bartlett suggested to be clear about these boundaries, in addition to explaining that these are recommendations by the doctor.<\/p>\n

Coming back to the Redditor\u2019s story, it gathered 10.7k upvotes on Reddit and people judged that the baby\u2019s mother was not a jerk in this situation, as she was following the medical advice in addition to giving the necessary skin contact to her baby.<\/p>\n

Redditors shared their takes on the situation<\/h3>\n
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A mother was advised by a pediatrician to only let the baby\u2019s parents kiss the newborn, but her MIL had a different take on it The mother told her extended family members that no one can kiss the baby yet Image credits:\u00a0ZealousidealTea5062 Image credits:\u00a0Randall Hammer (not the actual photo) Image credits:\u00a0ZealousidealTea5062 Seeing the mother kiss […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adz.clicktoplay.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adz.clicktoplay.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adz.clicktoplay.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adz.clicktoplay.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adz.clicktoplay.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adz.clicktoplay.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1470,"href":"https:\/\/adz.clicktoplay.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adz.clicktoplay.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adz.clicktoplay.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adz.clicktoplay.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}