[blparent] a new member

[Carol Schnip]

Hi everyone,

I to am a new member. I joined a month or so back just have been leerking 
debating on how I can ask for some advice. I have a son who just had their 
first baby in July. His wife does not want  my feancee and I to watch the 
baby. Due to us being both totally blind. She knows that I raised my own son 
by myself since my husband walked out after I became blind. But so many 
persons just tell me that this is her first baby and she will get over it. I 
dont think so. She even wants me to prove to her by showing her how I would 
feed and diaper my grandson. This has really hit me hard that she would do 
this to me. I want to talk about it with them, but I am trying not to get 
upset and rejected. Her mother gets to keep the baby over the weekend but I 
am not allowed to do so. I can visit him when they are around but that is 
all she will let me do. She would not even allow me to watch him for just 
three or four hours while she took my feancee to school.
I was looking forward to being a grandma but I feel like she has taken that 
chance away from me.
The way I feel I should not have to prove to family that I can do things. 
But if I have to I will. It is just making me lose respect in her due to 
this.
Trying not to cry when I think about it.
Carol