Granny tales

by Sharon Boggs
(kentucky)

There are so many, but one of the most hurtful was when I was pregnant.

My mother never wanted me to have children (the story was she feared something might happen to me) and when I became pregnant the first time, I did not tell her for several weeks.

I was bleeding and the doctor ordered me to rest during which time she had a hysterectomy.

Although she had my aunt (who my mother totally dominates) and a friend to take care of her, though I went to the hospital and stayed all I could, she still (30+ yrs later) berates me that I didn't take care of her ("just should have let that baby miscarry").

Sadly, the baby did die @ birth, my mother turns around in the hospital room on the DAY he died and said to me "You need to get yourself fixed so you won't have any more babies, you've just never been right someway".

When I didn't go along with this, she tried to get my husband to have a vasectomy behind my back.

For months afterward, every time the phone rang, she'd be telling me how she'd talked to this dr. or that person and I shouldn't ever try to have another baby.

Well, I did get pregnant and have a wonderful son, but while I was carrying him, while we were sitting together in church my mother made the statement that this pregnancy would be "just the same old thing all over again".