26 February 2024 , 16:04
1108
0
A mum has been left horrified after catching her mother-in-law trying to breastfeed her son despite being 60 years old. She explained how her mother-in-law has been trying to get the little one to refer to her as 'mama', rather than grandma.
Confused and upset, the mum keeps using the word 'tata', which means grandma in Lebanese Arabic, as she doesn't want her son to pick up on her behaviour. "My mother-in-law has been trying to make my baby call her mama, she hates it if my baby tries to call her teta (teta is grandma in my language) and really hates it," she said on Reddit.
"She insists on him calling her mama. I tried to brush it off and just every time I see her I tell my baby, 'Oh here’s your teta'." However, it turns out this isn't the only 'evil plan' up the mother-in-law's sleeve to try to win affection from her grandson, as she has been attempting to breastfeed him too.
Read more: Sign up to Mirror US's SMS updates for the latest straight from the newsroom
She added: "The other day I was exhausted and she came unannounced to my house so I told her to watch my baby (he was asleep) while I go take a shower. Anyway, my velcro baby decides to wake up after I got into the shower and my mother-in-law takes out her breast and tries to put my baby for him to latch on her breast (she is not lactating in any way).
Heidi Klum, 49, admits wanting fifth child and says she's 'waited a long time'
" She is not his mother. I didn’t give her any consent to fictionally breastfeed my baby. She is 60 and if anything would come out of that nipple it would be dust. I leave the shower and run to her and snatch my baby from her. She’s now super upset and is insisting that I’m exaggerating and she herself is a mother to seven kids."
Commenting on her post, one user said: "Mother-in-law trying to breastfeed your baby: disgusting. She earned a six-month time out." Another user added: "That is disgusting. I wouldn’t allow her near the baby and honestly would order her a reborn baby to her doorstep for extra snark because what the f***." A third user said: " You handled this better than I would have, I would have made a comment about dust and whatever makes old people smell not being nutritious for baby."