MIL distraught over us asking for privacy after “her grandbaby” is born

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My MIL lives twelve hours away. My partner and I told her months ago that we are going to have a “babymoon” period of 8 weeks, where NOBODY except my partner and I (and the baby’s pediatrician) will meet our baby in person. That way I have time to recover, we have time to learn what the heck we are doing, and the baby will have had shots.