Woman Kicks Her Mom Out of the Delivery Room — 10 Years Later, She's Still Bringing It Up

Mar. 15, 2025

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A woman says her family is still bringing up the birth of her child 10 years later — because she kicked her mom out of the delivery room during what she calls the “terrible, scary experience”

In aRedditpost, the anonymous woman explains that she was in labor for 21 hours when doctors determined she would need a C-section.

“If not for modern medicine, I would have died on the birthing table. I was in extreme pain and making noises that sounded inhuman,” she writes. “Giving birth was a terrible, scary experience.”

She continues: “My mom was in the delivery room with me and she would not shut up. She was constantly giving me unwanted advice and unhelpful instructions. I asked her to stop talking but she just couldnt help herself.”

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“I got snappy with her because I was IN LABOR, and her response was ‘You’re not the only person in the hospital giving birth today’ followed up with ‘your sister didn’t act like this when she gave birth.’ "

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“I asked the nurses to remove my mom from the room. I guess she then immediately got on the phone and cried about it to our entire family,” she writes.

In the 10 years since, the woman writes that she has “repeatedly been reminded how awful it was for me to do that to my mom…I had to hear about it again during a family dinner and I just can’t take it anymore.”

Now, the woman wants to know if she was in the wrong in the first place, or if her family is wrong for continuing to bring it up.

But Reddit commenters overwhelmingly agree that the poster’s mom was the one in the wrong.

“It’s she who should be ashamed of herself, not you,” writes one.

Adds another, “Your mother clearly wasn’t helping, but adding stress to the situation. She wasn’t comforting or supportive but was instead insulting and berating you … You didn’t deserve the way she was treating you, and she didn’t deserve to stay for the delivery. You made the right choice!”

source: people.com