MIL announced we’re pregnant on socials.

I think in this case your husband should
Be speaking to her. It is out of line and she should be called out

I should have mentioned he was on it like a hot potato. He messaged her straight away, but I just need her to stop it now. I can just see it happening again before the baby is even here

This is my mother in law too. She has claimed she does it through excitement or because she wants to share the news with family in America and when we say can’t she just message them she says she doesn’t have their number 🙄 I find it all so manipulative but thankfully my husband stands up to her. It’s just sad that I know she’d do it again.
I feel your upset and concern. Why does everything have to be shared on social media?!

I know. I’m so over hearing “goodness of her heart” or “excitement”.

So sorry you’re going through it also. It’s an uphill battle at the moment!

My mil is like this too and I’m so sorry you’ve had to deal with this. I would be fuming!!!! Glad your husband has been on it though and i think going forward, if I was in your shoes I would just stop telling her any updates now and keep my distance. They need to understand the consequences of their actions & saying “im too excited” which my mil is like too, isn’t an excuse. It’s not her news to share and it’s actually really selfish and toxic behaviour. My mil shares so much stuff too on socials and it’s why she was the last person to know our news and we made a point of it to her to make her understand why. We also told her baby is due in October even though it’s September just because we want our own bubble and no constant texts closer to due date because of how she is. I would seriously consider how you move forward with the rest of your pregnancy and her involvement after her doing this. It’s out of order imo!

So many MILs are like that, mine shares too much of her other grandkids, even wishes them happy birthday even though they’re not on facebook, so attention seeking.
Always the person to check into a hospital on facebook too, one time she did it when they were dropping me off for an appointment, I had no words 😂
She’s not allowed to post anything about our son cause we don’t post him at all so she knows not to play with us.
I’d ask your husband to have a conversation. Also prepare how you’ll handle it when your baby is here cause no doubt she’ll try to announce that too.

checking into the hospital on fb got me 🫠😂😂

Next time you’re told they can’t help it and they’re too excited just ask if they’re 7. If they’re going to act like a child about it they don’t get adult information.

No scan photos, no updates. If they complain ‘you told us you couldn’t help yourself and you’re too excited. We don’t want this shared. We’re just helping you prevent yourself from upsetting us. It’s best for everyone.’

My dad announced my last pregnancy to absolutely everyone he could even though I told him not to tell anyone, then some of my family sided with him telling me he was just excited, that's why I've not and will not be telling anyone in my family for as long as I possibly can about my current pregnancy, your mother in laws a dick like my dad and they both need to grow up x

honestly it’s so bad, anything for a bit of attention.
It was a few years ago, I had an appointment at a big hospital in central London (we live in a London suburb) and they dropped me off. A few hours later I look on FB and she’s checked in. Someone asked if she’s ok and she’s like yes, babe 😂
My other half said earlier today, oh my mum had CT scan yesterday. I replied, I know, I saw it on FB 😂🥴

I couldn’t cope with that 😂 why are they all the same!!

as long as she doesn’t post anything about us or our kids, we just leave her to it. She knows we’d cut her contact with our kids so she hasn’t tried.
She used to post a lot of pictures of other grandkids and I think their mum stopped it as well and now they’ve recently had another grandchild and she posted a picture of him in NICU attached to lots of machines, without parents knowledge. That didn’t go down well either.
Everyone knows she does it for likes and attention, it’s so jarring 🥴😵‍💫