Overbearing Mother-in-Law Tells Woman Not to Work Out While Pregnant

A pregnant woman is feuding with her mother-in-law after the older woman has continually chided her for working out while pregnant, even going so far as to claim she is putting her unborn child in danger.

The anonymous, 28-year-old woman shares her situation in a post on Reddit, writing: “I am currently pregnant and have been staying active by going to the gym, as my doctor has assured me it’s perfectly safe.”

“I don’t do anything extreme—just light weights, walking, and stretching to stay healthy for myself and the baby,” she adds.

But her mother-in-law has “been making constant comments about how I’m ‘selfish’ and ‘putting my baby in danger’ by working out. She even told me I’m ‘asking for a miscarriage’ by not just sitting at home and ‘acting like a proper pregnant woman.’ ”

The woman adds that she has tried explaining to her mother-in-law that her doctor is supportive of her workouts, “but she won’t listen.”

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“Today, she pushed it too far, saying I was going to ‘regret it when something happens,’ ” the woman continues in her post. “I snapped and told her to piss off and stop sticking her nose in my business. Now she’s playing the victim, saying I was ‘disrespectful’ and that I should apologize. My husband is on my side but thinks I could’ve handled it more calmly.”

Fellow Reddit users are arguing that the woman was not in the wrong, with one writing that the mother-in-law was “rude, intrusive, and ignorant.”

“You don’t prophesize a miscarriage to a pregnant woman. Like never. Your reaction was even too calm,” adds another.

Others argues that the woman’s husband needs to intervene so the mother-in-law doesn’t get worse once the child is born.

“HE now needs to take over this situation and have a sit down with her where HE makes it abundantly clear to her that SHE is the ONLY one in the wrong and he expects HER to apologize to you. Anything less than this is not acceptable,” writes one commenter. “It’s not your problem that she is ignorant and stuck in the past. And this won’t be the last thing she criticizes you for, it’s only the first.”