Giving birth is one of the most vulnerable and physically demanding experiences a human being can go through. The last thing anyone needs in that room, or anywhere near that room, is someone who has decided that the occasion is primarily about them. Most people understand this instinctively. Some people need to be told. And some people need to be told, ignored, escorted out, and then driven home before the message even begins to land.
This author is expecting her second child and has a very simple question. After her mother-in-law attempted to enter the delivery room uninvited, criticized her breastfeeding choices, and woke her from medicated sleep to comment on her parenting, is banning her from the second birth an overreaction? The internet has an extremely unanimous answer.
