[Rant] My parents don't treat my kid like they do my niece
My son is about to be one in a few days and i've been reflecting a lot on this first year of motherhood. It's been both so amazing watching this tiny baby turn into such a goofy little person and so hard dealing with PPD and the baby clash.
One of the biggest disapointment is my parents though... My brother has a 2 and a half little girl and they are great grand-parents to her. Since she started daycare, they have been watching her one day a week, they are taking her overnight often, they have a really nice relationship with her. When i got pregnant, i thought "wow, they are great with my niece, my son is gonna be lucky to have such good grand-parents".
I knew it wasn't going to be the same because my brother lives in the same city and i live 1h30 away but i thought they would want to form a bond with my son.
They don't visit that often, when they do or when we go, they don't interact a lot with him. They watched him once a few weeks ago just for a few hours and it didn't go great. They weren't really supportive when i got diagnosed with PPD, i basically had to get help by myself. Last month i got mastitis and the on-call doctor send me to the ER to get checked out (i was really sick, i didn't know it was mastitis, i was told i might have to pause breastfeeding), i called my parents to see if they could watch my son while my partner took me to the ER, my dad said it wasn't a good time because they had to watch my niece the following evening.
I'm just so sad, i feel like they don't really care about him... I don't want him to grow up and realise he's not being treated the same as his cousin.