My mom wants me (27F) to get rid of my husband's (33M) dog, because she's afraid the dog will hurt my son

So, 3 years ago I got my husband a dog for his birthday. Technically, it's our dog, but I always refer to the dog as "my husband's dog", because there is a really special bond between those two. They're literally best friends.

I gave birth 4 months ago and my mom has been stressing me out ever since. She's constantly complaining about things I'm supposedly doing wrong or tries to lecture me on how to entertain my baby etc. It's so annoying, because she's behaving like SHE's my son's mother instead of me.

A week ago, my husband and I invited my parents to our house for dinner. During this dinner, my son was in his bouncer. He was there with us the whole time, so he wasn't unsupervised. Suddenly, my mom started screaming because the dog got a bit close to my son and started sniffing my son's face. The thing is, this dog wouldn't even harm a fly. Yes, he's a bit scary-looking, because he's a big rottweiler, but he's such a kind and gentle dog. If I believed this dog was dangerous, I would not let him near my son.

Unfortunately, my mom completely freaked out. She started yelling at me things like: "How can you let your dog do this to your son? Why are you risking your son's life? You're a bad mother" etc... For the past week she has been calling me and yelling at me to get rid of this dog, because she thinks this dog will hurt my son. I told her I wouldn't do it, because this dog is part of the family and my husband would be devastated if we got rid of his dog, but my mom is insisting on it.

I'm not planning on giving this dog away, but currently the relationship between my mom and I is very strained and I don't know what to do about it. Any advice?

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TL;DR: My mom wants me to get rid of my husband's dog, because she's afraid the dog will hurt my son. I'm not going to do that, so now the relationship between my mom and I is strained.

Submitted December 03, 2020 at 10:26AM by throwRA6321 https://ift.tt/3oqCOL5