Wrong for Distancing Myself from my Mother during pregnancy?

Advice Needed

I(26F) am currently pregnant with my second child. During my first pregnancy, we lived near my husband’s family at the time and then around 27 weeks moved across the country to be closer to my mom (66F).

My whole pregnancy was smooth no issues blood pressure was always normal until I started being around my mother daily. She is a very self absorbed person that’ll completely ignore what you say to get her point across. She has never been one to put her feelings aside for others or admit when she’s made a mistake. She’ll pull out every excuse in the book before admitting anything or even acknowledge it. She would attempt to turn my husband and I against each other with manipulation (we’ve been together too long and know each other too well it never worked). I mean fights got so bad she would try to break my door down banging/kicking if i tried to remove myself from the situation (i was 38 weeks pregnant). I’ve learned to love her the way she is because she is my mother and I love seeing her with my daughter.

My blood pressure was suddenly always high when I went for my OB visits, they declared me preeclampsia when I gave birth to my daughter. I never wanted to go through that again because it made my delivery miserable. The labor nurse felt so bad for me and asked if I wanted my mother removed from my delivery room but that would’ve only made things worse.

This pregnancy I am trying to eliminate all stress from my life and really try to keep the peace to keep my blood pressure down. I tell her this and she will completely ignore me and find ways to get me all bent out of shape and stressed out. Am I wrong for wanting to distance myself from her during this time due to the lack of consideration she has for myself? I don’t deserve to be in that mental state I was in the last weeks of my first pregnancy. It also affects baby too and I don’t want that. Any advice helps, thank you!!🫶🏽

Posted Sep 3, 2025, 6:21 PM UTC

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