{"id":5747,"date":"2026-04-05T21:13:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/?p=5747"},"modified":"2026-04-05T21:13:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:13:47","slug":"i-was-pumping-when-guests-arrived-now-im-being-called-rude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/?p=5747","title":{"rendered":"I Was Pumping When Guests Arrived \u2014 Now I\u2019m Being Called Rude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"74\" data-end=\"236\">I was home alone with my newborn when the doorbell rang\u2014right in the middle of pumping. I never answer the door in that situation, so I ignored it and kept going.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"238\" data-end=\"442\">A few minutes later, I heard voices downstairs. Turns out my husband had come home and was talking to someone. Then he rushed upstairs, grabbed the baby, and said, \u201cSorry, I didn\u2019t know they were coming!\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"444\" data-end=\"544\">Confused, I asked who it was. He said his boss and his wife had stopped by with a gift for the baby.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"546\" data-end=\"716\">I said \u201cokay\u201d and continued, still hooked up to the pump. After finishing, I went to the bathroom to get myself together. A few minutes later, my husband came back upset.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"718\" data-end=\"951\">He said I was rude for not coming down to greet them and accept the gift. I explained I didn\u2019t realize they were staying or that I was expected to drop everything. He insisted I embarrassed him\u2014especially when they asked where I was.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"953\" data-end=\"1049\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Now I\u2019m left wondering\u2026 was I actually rude, or just a tired mom trying to manage in the moment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was home alone with my newborn when the doorbell rang\u2014right in the middle of pumping. I never answer the door in that situation, so I ignored it and kept going. A few minutes later, I heard voices downstairs. Turns out my husband had come home and was talking to someone. Then he rushed upstairs, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5749,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5747\/revisions\/5749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storypulls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}