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Hi 👋 looking for some advice. My MIL is very pass remarkable and I'm usually thick skinned enough not to let it bother me. But today she really got to me. I'm currently 8 months pregnant and obviously have a bump but I haven't really put weight on elsewhere. My bump isn't even that massive (yet) and my baby is measuring average to be about 7.5 -8lbs at birth. But today she kept going on about how huge I was and how my baby will be massive. When I corrected her and said actually she's on track to be average around 8lbs she gasped and said that huge and she'll destroy me and how bad birth will be with such a huge baby and how hers were only 6lbs. Honestly, it's really upset me and now I'm an anxious mess. I've no idea how else I could have handled this in the moment. Any advice on what I could have said?

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