Firstly, I recognise this is somewhat irrational and I have lots of support from the mental health team, so I’m more looking for practical advice.
My baby is 5 weeks old. I’m finding people, but particularly grandparents, really overwhelming and I’m stressed about him being touched. I think it’s maybe because friends hold him for a bit and give him back, but we’ve had to ask our parents to leave on their first visit. This time I again had to ask my mum to leave because she just ignored me and held the baby for 45 minutes, and I also had to ask my MIL for him back because she’d had him for an hour and it was making me stressed. I feel like they feel some sense of entitlement over taking him because he’s their grandson but he’s my baby. I’m not even worried about something bad happening I just don’t like it. We have tickets to a show in June and have asked family to babysit but I hate the idea of someone else feeding or changing him and I don’t know why. Has anyone else felt like this or am I being crazy? And if you have, how did you get over it?