Posted here a few weeks back re. The old
mother-in-law smoking around my pregnant
girlfriend. Happy to report that we stood
our ground and she finally caved in to our
demands of not smoking in front of my g/f
or the baby when its born, and ineed
forever around the baby/child. Mind you
it was not without a bitter fight after me
asking very politely in the first
instance. So far so good anyway and she
hasn't smoked in front of us! (she
wouldn't dare now!) we basically walked
away from her for a week after some
'choice' words from myself and left hew to
stew and eventually it caused a meeting
with her and the father-in-law. Not very
nice but it needed to happen as we were
totally sick of it. So we feel less
stressed and looking forward to a healthy
baby!
Moral of the story, if you don't want
someone smoking around you when you are
pregnant or around your baby, don't give
in to them - you are and baby are more
important than a filthy habit! As we have
found, its nice to be able to just walk
away from the smoke but sometimes its very
hard if the smoker is a family member and
insists their habit is more important than
the health of a baby. Its just so unfair
to remove choice by smoking and inflict
poison air on tiny lungs, or anyone else
for that matter - I hate it!!!
We're happy now :d
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lil_blaze2004
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Posted: 01-21-07 06:58am
That's good. I had the same prob with my
mother-in law but it seems to be resolved
now too since my kid has asthma and she's
realized that if she smokes near him he
ends up in the hosp.
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