The article highlights the often harsh and unhelpful comments from family members towards new parents. Personal anecdotes reveal instances of inappropriate remarks regarding the gender of newborns, as well as expectations for new parents to accommodate family members during recovery. The new parents express the need for empathy and support rather than judgment or indifference. These experiences underscore the vulnerabilities new parents face and the societal pressures that can exacerbate them, illustrating a lack of understanding about the postpartum period.
My former mother-in-law showed up in my hospital room within 30 minutes of me pushing out my fifth daughter and told me, 'It's a shame she's a girl.'
On the birth of my second son, the very first thing my mother-in-law said to me was, 'What a shame it's not a girl.'
While I was lying in a hospital bed 10-plus hours deep into labor, I received a text about another family member's hotel accommodations... Nothing.
[They] expected to be treated like guests in my home while I was sleepless and in pain after a C-section.
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