Not wearing mask when around my newborn

Question

Im so freaking pissed. My newborn is 28 days old. Me, my husband and my mum(who helping me with my confinement) is covid positive so i urged everyone to wear a mask when holding my newborn or whenever theyre near her. My mum occasionally wears her mask around my newborn. Sometimes she wear sometimes she dont. Sometimes her mask is not worn properly. She keep playing with my newborn without wearing her mask properly at times. Like if you care for your grandchild you wouldve do anything to protect them right? Why is she taking things lightly? Like does she not care if my newborn got covid? (Well i suspect she might already contracted it from my mum being very irresponsible) Ive not told her off because she is a very sensitive person and is helping me with my confinement and I dont want to make her feel like Im micromanaging her when it comes to my baby but i know everyone is gonna tell me to just tell her off because at the end of the day Im the mother. Yes thats true but I feel like Im being put in a position whereby i dont wanna hurt her feelings its like so paralysing I dont know how to put it into words. I feel like Im slowly going into depression because of this ontop of other things that has been going on. As Im writing this, shes feeding my newborn milk without mask and shes still positive. I feel like banging my head against the wall.

Anonymous · Answer

So sorry you have to go through this! Must be so hard for you. I totally understand how you feel because our newborn are so precious and we want to protect them at all cost! But sadly, others are not us they do take things lightly. For me, if it involves the safety/health of my child I WILL have to tell them off. Maybe if you have another sibling/your husband, can ask them try to ‘signal’ your mum to put on her mask properly?