AIO for going NC with my aunt and cousins after they went around town claiming my pregnancy was fake and that my child wasn’t mine
I (33F) and my husband (33M) have suffered from infertility for 10 + years. We had IVF failures and were told I could never get pregnant. So we stopped trying and decided adopting was for us ( been on a waiting list for 3 years and counting) . Due to the miracle of Maunjaro ( diabetic medicine) and a personal trainer both my husband and I lost weight and got in shape.
We got pregnant in April for the first time and unfortunately lost the pregnancy really fast, we got pregnant again in May and it stuck. Unfortunately I was really sick due to severe HG, gestational diabetes and at the end preeclampsia. Because of all these medical issues I was miserable , almost died and was hospitalized for 7 months out the 8 month pregnancy, which meant I wasn’t at work or out and about in town.
This is what my cousin , let’s call her Emery, started saying to anyone who would listen at the hair salon and to my clients . “She isn’t really pregnant, she’s adopting a kid in El Salvador and is going to pretend it’s hers when she gets back”
My other cousin didn’t believe her at first , let’s Call her Jay, she tried reaching out to me but I was sick so I wasn’t that into responding to calls or texts.
My aunt , Eli, their mom started saying that she knew I was faking it to get money and free stuff from a baby shower since she “met and took care of” the birth mom in El Salvador while she was there for a month vacation.
Fast forward to my baby shower, I’m still not doing great but I was allowed home for 2 weeks before the preeclampsia got diagnosed. My cousin Jay, arrived and before she said hi to me she went straight to my belly and rubbed it hard . Emery didn’t show and neither did my aunt because “ they knew it was fake and weren’t going to give me any money “ mind you when my cousins have had in combination of 7 kids I have always shown up and bought them baby stuff. All this was kept from me until baby was born for my health.
I found out once my baby was born that Jay only went to my baby shower to touch my belly and “expose me” in front of my guest. ( guess that plan fell through since she felt my baby kick)
Also once the baby pictures were out and Emery kept saying the baby wasn’t mine but my baby looks so much like my husband. Which people started telling her, she then changed the story to say that my baby is my husband’s biological child with his mistress ( my husband doesn’t have a mistress) and that is the reason baby looks so much like him.
I found out all of this a month PP after I was finally home from even more complications from the birth and pregnancy. Emery reached out to say congratulations and to ask subtle questions about where I was “hiding” . I told her I was hospitalized and she acted like she didn’t know. My mom is the one that has been keeping all the family away bc of this BS and wanted me to heal and enjoy motherhood since I worked so hard to get here.
My grandma says they are just jealous bc their husbands mistreat them and have divorced one of them while my husband is devoted to me. That the envy they have is natural and misguided but that family is for life. That I am overreacting and should be the bigger person and reach out bc family is important .
So AIO for going NC with my aunt and cousins ?