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I (20F) have a beautiful baby girl (1.5 months) with my husband (23) of 2 years. We both have good relationships with our families and invite them to our houses often (3 to 5 times a week.)
On Tuesday, my mother (51), mother-in-law (49), father-in-law (50), sister (15), sister-in-laws (in their 20s), and brother-in-laws (late teens) came over for a dinner. My mother-and-father-in-laws left early after my father-in-law had some health complications with his heart condition. My husband was playing some card game with his brothers in the basement, and our baby was there with him at first, but once it began to get a little boozy, I brought her upstairs to the kitchen with me where I could keep an eye on her. My mother, sister, sisters-in-laws, and I were washing dishes, cleaning up the dining room, etc. until about 8 o'clock when my mom, sister-in-laws, and brother-in-laws left.
I moved the baby into her seat in the living room while my little sister started complaining to me about school and how she wishes she could stay at our house (as teens do.) I went down into the basement to check on my husband for TWO MINUTES when suddenly I hear my baby crying tremendously. I race up the stairs to see my sister tackling her, pulling on her arms and legs, and battering her. I yanked my sister off the baby and threw her out of the house where my mom was waiting for her, then they drove away. I had to bring my baby to the ER because she's still so delicate.
I'm in shock. My sister is just 15, and she's always been so good with the baby. I told my mother that my sister is NEVER allowed in the house or ANYWHERE near the baby ever again. Thankfully she's safe for the most part, no shaken baby syndrome, but she has a broken leg.
How should I deal with this?? I'm disgusted by my sister and never want to see her again.
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I'm so sorry this has happened. You're right in not letting her near your child ❤️. In regards to how to deal with this, I'd wait until the offender can give an explanation and apologies etc herself, don't force it as it'll just be fake.
ReplyTell the police and have her charged with assault.
ReplyNot a parent myself but got lots of little cousins, aswell friends with first borns. Not saying that she (your sister) was doing the right thing, but sometimes new parents are on a high verge thinking everything and everyone can be harmful to the baby (as they're right to think imo)
Yes, babies are delicate specially the first 3-4 months since they can't sit properly or hold themself still or even getting used to the surroundings outside the womb; may be she was being rough in the way she was trying to handle the baby and of course the baby will cry since they aren't use to so many people handling them, but I wouldn't think she was actually trying to kill the baby... I mean, I don't know the circumstances at all but thinking straight if she hasn't tried to hurt someone elses before this incident, I might think it was an accident.
She still has to apologize for what she did, as I said before she might not know how to handle with care a baby and she was rough trying to hold her or to play with her. But also since you went to ER and the baby was fine, I think is more a misunderstanding more then a murder attempt.
Try to talk to her and make sense of what happened, a family can crumble appart for false accusations specially if those end up in a police department. If it makes you feel better install a baby cam near the baby next time someone besides you or your husbands is holding the child
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