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I'd say to DH that whether he thinks you're overreacting or not, the comments (and tell him specifically which comments) are upsetting you. You're recovering from surgery and you'd rather she not visit until you're feeling better if you have to just listen to criticism or he needs to be the one to step in and make it stop, it's his choice for which way to go.

Or suggest he take her out for Mother's Day and distract her instead of coming to the hospital.

Definitely no visitors. Have the nurses back you up, say you need to rest more and they don't think you should see anyone.

She sounds incredibly annoying. I also agree with @gingerbebe: that you have extra no patience for this bs right now recovering from major surgery and insane post birth hormones. So I think the best thing for everyone is for her to stay far away today!

Congrats on the new baby! What an extra special Mother's Day!

No advice but I'm so sorry you are going through this.

The criticism thing is tough, because I remember being such a mama bear and in retrospect, people weren't nearly as annoying as I thought they were, but I couldn't stand anyone being near my baby at that point. So your DH might be right, she may not be as critical as you think. That said, the thing about calling your baby by the middle name is really bad. Did you ask your DH about that? I would be livid if my ILs just decided to call my LO by the middle name simply because they didn't like the name we had chosen.

As for the visits, I definitely think you should tell your DH that you'd like a little time off from visitors right now. I would make sure someone tells your MIL directly though. You don't want extra drama if she shows up at the hospital and the nurses stop her and no one gave her a heads up.

Congrats on your new baby!

Congratulations on your new baby
I think the first thing you need to do is tell the nurses absolutely no visitors today, even family.
Next I think you need to have a discussion with your husband. Explain that you A) need a break from her for a few days. B) Don't like the way that she's talking to you about what you're doing with the baby. Explain that you're a new mom, and that you're going to do this how you want to do it, and you don't need her piping in, criticizing/giving her opinion on everything you're doing.
I think it's really important that you set up boundaries with her, before things go further and it gets even more difficult. ( This is coming from someone who has lots of MIL drama, and I just recently went and spoke to someone on how to deal with her.)
I'm sorry this is coming up, and I hope that she learns to respect your boundaries.

Sorry you're going through this. She sounds like my mom, who I have slowly reduced contact with since DD was born and we have a very strained relationship. It's unfortunate DH isn't supportive of your feelings on it, but I can see where he's coming from too - it's a hard position to be in between your spouse and your mom. I hope he comes around and can address this before it gets even worse.

19 visitors?! Wow! That is crazy!

I totally understand and I think she sounds amazing and I'm not hormonal! My MIL drives me crazy too. DD is named Emma and a week or two after having her, my MIL decided she needed a nickname and wanted to randomly make up a nickname and start calling her that. She came up with "Mimi". WTF. That really pissed me off that she wanted to not call my DD by her name and call her Mimi. I shot that down immediately. And Mimi is no shorted to pronounce than Emma, it's two syllables! And it has nothing to do with her name. You can't just make up a nickname for a baby, it has to happen organically. Good lord that was annoying. Just stick to your guns and say "this is DS's name, you need to call him by his name" and that's that. We stuck our ground with my MIL so many times in the early days and it has helped now that she's a little older. And limit her visits at home to once a week for your own sanity.