Internet Criticizes Parents List Of Rules For Guests Visiting Their New Born

A couple has been ridiculed on the internet for their ridiculous list of rules for visitors to their newborn, including putting family members on 'time out' if they don't follow them.

Guests are asked to help with household tasks, purchase meals, take-out, and presents from an approved list, and refrain from using deodorant or perfume, according to the list.

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The demanding mother came to Reddit to ask if she was wrong for refusing to bend the rules for her sister-in-law, who could not afford to pay for presents, groceries, or food as a student and instead volunteered to do additional chores.

Rules for visiting a new baby by picky parents

1. Be up to date on ALL vaccines
2. If you feel sick, don't visit
3. Let us know a week beforehand so we can arrange a day/time
4. No smokers
5. No phone calls or visits between 7:30 pm-10 pm
6. You can only stay one hour
7. No picking up the baby without consent
8. No advice 
9. No perfume or deodorant 
10. No is no - we won't explain why
11. No pictures to be taken or posted on social media 
12. If you visit, the first time you will be expected to give mum (me) a gift card and a gift for the baby from our approved list
13. Before you ever come, no matter how many times, you will be given a list of either food or groceries to bring with you AND a chore from a list of your choosing
14. No more than two visits a week per person

The demanding parents' list of restrictions includes several fair conditions for seeing their infant son for the first time, such as no smoking, vaccinations up to date, no picking up the baby without authorization, and staying away if you're unwell, but the demands begin to go out of hand.

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Guests must schedule a visit at least a week in advance, visit for one hour no more than twice a week, and refrain from taking selfies or giving advice.

'If you visit the first time you will be expected to give mom (me) a gift card and a gift for baby from our approved list,' one of the rules states. 

'Before you ever come no matter how many times you will be given a list of either food or groceries to bring with you AND a chore for a list of your choosing,' said another. 

The list, according to the 34-year-old mother, was created to reduce visits to a bare minimum and prevent anyone from complaining about 'favoritism' because everyone is treated equally, but this backfired when the new father's sister decided to make a visit.

'My sister-in-law studies in a different part of the country and is rarely home asked to visit last week before she had to go back to school,' the mum wrote. 

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'So we set up a date with a link to our gift list then sent her the takeout we’d like including the chores she can choose from.'

The sister-in-law responded back right away, stating she was broke and offering to help out with extra duties, but the parents objected.

'Me and my husband talked about it and came to the decision that if we bent the rules for one person everyone would want the same treatment,' the woman wrote. 

'We told her no that we were very clear about our rules and maybe next time she could visit.' 

The new aunt was heartbroken that she would not be able to see her new nephew until returning to town months later, and she even offered to clean the entire house, but the parents refused.

'She left this morning and we got multiple texts for my in-laws belittling us for using our child as a cash grab,' the mum said. 

'My husband simply replied it was our rules and no one deserves special treatment than told his family they were on a time out and blocked them.' 

Her friends and relatives told her she was wrong and that they would have understood if she had broken the rules for a 'broke college student.'

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The parent's SMS messages are no longer being answered by the sister-in-law.

The forum was inundated with criticism of the entitled parent's 'money-grabbing' tactics.

'Your rules went from 0 to 60. Like smoking and vaccines, yeah. But gift cards and chores? The entitlement is strong with this one,' one user wrote. 

'Gift item and food? You had a baby, you can’t cook for yourself? I mean I understand friends VOLUNTEERING to bring a meal, but to demand food, gifts and a chore? Try having a toddler and a newborn, working full time. You both sound insufferable,' said a second.

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'Yeah, the "buy stuff for me" rules are really awful. I'm surprised there are people in the family actually abiding by this,' a third responded.