I am now in my eighth month of pregnancy. Already on maternity leave, that is, I no longer go to work. By the birth of a baby, my husband and I approached with all responsibility. Even at the planning stage, they passed a bunch of tests, drank vitamins.
We tried to do everything according to the mind, and not to trust accidents. I have chosen a good gynecologist who manages my pregnancy. Even here I wanted to feel calm.
It’s just that many of my friends have already given birth, and our antenatal clinic was described as a branch of hell. What they just did not hear enough.
Therefore, we try to contact paid clinics and centers everywhere. And indeed, there the attitude is different at times. Everyone cares regarding you and smiles. Not to say that this is the most important, but a kind word is also pleasant for a cat.
My husband and I have provided for everything! We chose a maternity hospital in another, larger city. In three weeks, I already have to go to bed for a planned hospitalization. This is our first child and therefore, of course, a little unsettling.
Husband works all day. And I very often stay at home to sleep alone. Because of this, they decided that it would be better for me to spend the last week in the hospital, but at least under the constant supervision of doctors, and not alone.
As you can see, I planned everything, but it turned out that there is one dark horse in our plans. And this is not surprising – my mother-in-law! Anna Pavlovna and I might not make friends, but we never quarreled either. We always maintain polite neutrality.
We just live in completely different worlds. She got me not as a young girl who can be bent under herself, but as an adult independent twenty-six-year-old girl.
But following the news of my pregnancy, Anna Pavlovna somehow became a little softer towards my person. It happened that she might even call herself, although she had never done this before. She was interested in how we went to the ultrasound and whether the tests were good.
I honestly began to think that my mother-in-law had some kind of insight, and she realized that if she continued to try to crush me under herself, then communication with her future grandson might turn out the same as with me.
Internally, to be honest, it was even nice. During the three years of our acquaintance, I finally saw that the mother-in-law can be an ordinary polite person when she wants, of course. But how wrong I was!
My mother-in-law had a birthday two days ago. Naturally, we were also invited. My husband and I came to the father-in-law. While she busied herself setting the table in the living room, I sat on the couch. I was forbidden to help because of my position. But my sister-in-law, my husband’s younger sister, volunteered to help.
And so they fuss, arrange the plates. Anna Pavlovna asks her daughter:
– So you tell me what’s up with the test? Did you lose the second one?
– Yes, it seems not, tomorrow I have an appointment, they will have to say what is there.
And then the mother-in-law turns to me to explain:
– Here you can imagine Olechka, what kind of medicine we have! A total mess! I passed the test for covid, but they lost it! I had to submit another one!
I got cold inside! It turned out that the sister-in-law had been on sick leave for four days. Not only does she have all the signs of SARS, she also has a suspicion of covid. She had a fever the day before.
And we have been sitting in the same room for thirty minutes, talking, talking. I looked at my husband, asking why he didn’t tell me anything. And he wondered why?
In short, I got up and told my husband to take me home from here immediately. The relatives of the spouse are all at a loss.
Imagine, not a single person’s brain moved: why the hell did they have to drag a pregnant woman in order to close with a sick person in the same room?
I have a planned due date in a month. My friend gave birth in May of the twentieth year, exactly in the first wave of the epidemic. So she told me how they gave birth there with suspicion of covid.
And I certainly do not want such childbirth. You may not even know that you are sick. There is also an asymptomatic course of the disease.
And everyone who was infected was also taken away from babies. They gave it back only when the tests stopped showing the presence of the virus. A woman in labor in the isolation ward, the baby was taken away – apparently Anna Pavlovna wanted to wish me such a birth.
I am horrified by my husband’s family. And a little bit from him too. But the mother-in-law only began to seem to me a normal person, but it turns out that her head is only to do a perm.
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