A first-time parent has revealed she asked her mother-in-law to leave the hospital shortly after her baby’s birth after she told the newborn: “You’re my second chance.”

The parent said she had a difficult labour and ended up needing an emergency C-section. While she was in recovery, her mother-in-law visited the hospital to meet her new grandchild.

The mum recalled: “I was groggy and out of it when she arrived, but I remember this very clearly: she picked him up, stared at him for a while, and said, ‘You’re my second chance. I won’t screw it up this time.’”

She added that her husband didn’t hear it, but she did, so she asked her mother-in-law what she meant by it.

The parent then said her mother-in-law responded: “Let’s just say I wasn’t the mom I should’ve been ... but now I get to do it right.”

It didn’t go down well

The new mum said the response sent her “over the edge” and she told her mother-in-law that her baby “was not her second chance, this was my baby, and she needed to leave”.

“She tried to say she meant it ‘spiritually’ but I doubled down and asked the nurse to escort her out,” she........

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