Doting Mother-in-Law Gets an Elaborate Gift for Her Son for ‘Becoming a Father’, 8-Months-Pregnant Wife Decides to Treat Herself With an Expensive Gift of Her Own

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Oct 19, 2024 6:00 PM EDT

Pregnant women are literally creating life inside them. We sometimes forget how crazy that is, but at the end of the day, any woman bringing life into this world is pretty spectacular. Granted, it's in our nature to be incredibly mind-blowing and amazing, but that's another conversation. 

This pregnant woman's mother-in-law, however, seemed to think that her son was the one in need of accolades for the birth of his child, ignoring the pregnant woman actually doing all the work. Although pregnant women have a few perks in this world–priority seats on the bus, dibs on ice cream flavors, and the occasional foot rub–the woman in our next story was pretty peeved when her doting mother-in-law decided to give gold stars to her husband in the form of an elaborate gift. 

We get it, he's becoming a parent too, but when it comes to congratulations, I'd say the woman spending 20 hours in the delivery room deserves a little more credit. Keep scrolling to read how this petty pregnant woman decided to treat herself instead of waiting for a gift that would never come.

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    Mother-in-law thought my husband deserved a gift for becoming a dad, so I decided to give myself one instead!
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    Couple of years ago, I was pregnant, and my mother-in-law (MIL) made a comment about how my husband deserved a special gift to celebrate him becoming a dad. Meanwhile, I didn't receive even a cake for my birthday which was a month
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    prior. I felt pretty bad but I didn't respond. Here's where my petty revenge came in. A few months earlier, (before getting pregnant) I had booked a Rolex as a birthday gift for myself, planning to treat myself. Fast forward to a few
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    days after my MIL's comment, I got a call from the sales associate about my watch being ready for pickup. I decided to go ahead and buy it right away. When I picked it up, I casually mentioned to my MIL
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    that I bought the watch for myself because I was going to be a mother soon. You could practically hear the jealousy in her voice! Now, every time I wore it, I
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    couldn't help but smile knowing I treated myself while she thought my husband should be celebrated. Petty? Maybe. But sometimes you just have to take a little victory for yourself!
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    18k gold That funny. But who the doesn't celebrate their pregnant wife's birthday? That's pretty husband. of your
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    Jolly Virus 3533 What a weird person your MIL is giving her son a present because he came inside his wife. Eww!
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    LateExercise3347 OP She's too proud of her children, even if they're just doing the bare minimum!
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    Distinct Ambition186 Ooh! My MIL is the same! You gotta love them when they praise their children for brushing their teeth but you could do open heart surgeries every day and they would say "well, good for you, but that's your job". I at least get the pleasure of talking about it with my husband because he hates it too.
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    New-Seesaw9255 You're not alone even if I'm the only other one. I'm currently pregnant myself and the thought of getting a 'push gift' is just weird. Stuff has always been around to celebrate a pregnant person and their partner but this is weirdly targeted and an easy marketing scam for companies to push onto people
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    red-panda-escape My MIL told me that her son (my husband) looked exhausted and needed some sleep after i went through 21 hours of labor with my first kid. But HE was tired. What a joke!
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    Odd-Outcome450 He gets the participation trophy aka the kid
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    "I treated myself while she thought my husband should be celebrated"
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