Childbirth comes with enough to manage without adding a waiting room confrontation to the list, but that’s exactly what this unlucky woman got.

Despite living with her in-laws, this expectant mother still had clear ideas of who she wanted in the delivery room, and her in-laws didn’t make the list. But when she tried to enforce these boundaries, it didn’t go well.

Instead of standing up for her, her boyfriend folded under pressure. And her mother’s intervention didn’t go over too smoothly either.

So against her wishes, her MIL showed up uninvited anyway, invoked her rights as a grandmother, and walked out of the hospital having handed her daughter-in-law an eviction notice on the same day her grandchild was born.

You’ll want to keep reading for this one.

AITAH for not wanting my in laws in the hospital at all while I was in labor?

I (F26) just gave birth, and I didn’t want anyone at the hospital at all while I was in labor besides the people I chose to be in the delivery room — my boyfriend (M28) and my mom (F52).

I wanted everyone to wait to come until after I gave birth and felt like I was ready for visitors.

She further describes her family dynamic.

For context, my boyfriend and I live with my in-laws, and we pay no bills living with them.

My mom lives out of the country and had planned to come for the birth.

So since she would be staying for a while, her mom needed a place to say.

Since I have no place of my own and have no family in the area, she was renting a small place for herself while she was here.

The last month, she asked my in-laws if they would be willing to rent out their spare room to her.

Before long, her mother and her in-laws had formed a deal.

They said they’d rent it out at $300, and my mom being who she is, gave them an extra $200, which they happily took.

While staying there, she cooked for everyone daily with groceries she bought, cleaned the house daily, and even helped my in-laws’ youngest (F10) deep clean her room.

So back to the baby.

I went into my induction on a Friday afternoon.

I came in 2cm dilated and was having very little progress as time went by.

Things weren’t going as planned, but she still tried to make the best of it.

Saturday morning came and I was barely at 4cm, so I decided to get the epidural to let my body have a rest because I was in so much pain and couldn’t keep going without the meds.

While all this is happening, my boyfriend and mom were giving my mother-in-law updates regularly.

On one of the calls that morning, my MIL let my boyfriend know that they would be stopping by to see us as they were in the area.

But here’s where the drama came in.

I reminded my boyfriend to please tell the in-laws that I wanted them to wait to come until after I had given birth — this is something I had expressed weeks prior to my MIL and boyfriend.

My boyfriend got off the call and told me the in-laws were upset and telling him to grow some ****s and tell me something.

My mom overheard and decided she could call my MIL to smooth things over.

But this conversation didn’t go well either.

My MIL spoke over my mom the whole time, saying things like “who do you think y’all are taking MY right away.”

My mom told her not to include her because it was my choice, not hers.

Things only went downhill from there.

By the end of that phone call, the in-laws were already in the waiting room.

My mom told my boyfriend to go entertain his guests — which in my opinion, where he should have been was by my side, not entertaining guests in the waiting area.

My mom followed to try to smooth things over again, but she was greeted by a very hostile MIL who thinks everything is her way or the highway.

This had a very immediate impact on their living arrangements.

Because of this, my MIL also told my boyfriend she wanted us out of the house.

So since I gave birth, I have not gone back.

Now her and her boyfriend are fighting too.

My boyfriend thinks that because we lived with his parents, I somehow owed it to them to “just let them see me” while I was in labor.

The in-laws make the same argument, and my MIL says that I’m not the only woman who’s gone through labor and labor pains, so I need to stop acting like that.

But this couldn’t be further from how she sees things.

There’s so much more to the story, but in my opinion, I don’t think that I owe anything to anyone while I’m in labor.

I don’t care how close we are or how much you think you’ve done for me — my labor experience is something I don’t owe to anyone.

So, AITA?

This story is a yikes with a capital Y.

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Her in-laws’ financial support is nice, but it doesn’t give them permission to do whatever they want.

Her boyfriend doesn’t come out of this story looking so good either.

This MIL showed her true colors in more ways than one.

After all of this, she should stay away from her in-laws for good.

It’s very clear her MIL is the kind of person who thinks money buys you everything, including the right to bulldoze everyone else’s boundaries.

A reasonable person would have listened to the opposition and abided by it, knowing just how personal the birth of a baby can be.

But instead this MIL took things one step further and decided to burn the bridge entirely with her DIL.

Learning that she can’t trust her in-laws is a hard lesson, but it’s an important one.