Someone was lying next to Emily.<\/p>\n
I stared at the camera in shock. It was an adult\u2014and then I recognized her.<\/p>\n
My mother-in-law.<\/strong> \ud83d\ude28<\/p>\n Suddenly, everything made sense.<\/p>\n Months earlier, we had argued because I wanted Emily to sleep in her own room. My mother-in-law called me a bad mother and insisted that a child shouldn\u2019t sleep alone.<\/p>\n Now I realized what she had been doing.<\/p>\n Every night, after everyone went to sleep, she would quietly enter Emily\u2019s room and lie beside her until morning.<\/p>\n She thought she was protecting her granddaughter, but instead she was frightening her and making her feel trapped in her own bed.<\/p>\n The next morning, we had a serious conversation.<\/p>\n I kept the camera\u2014and made it clear that how I raise my daughter is my decision.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Someone was lying next to Emily. I stared at the camera in shock. It was an adult\u2014and then I recognized her. My mother-in-law. \ud83d\ude28 Suddenly, everything made sense. Months earlier, we had argued because I wanted Emily to sleep in her own room. My mother-in-law called me a bad mother and insisted that a child…<\/p>\n