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[quote=Anonymous]I did. My husband's sister was neglecting her baby. The husband left. Like, literally drove her home from the hospital, got her and the baby inside, as they got settled he packed up all his shit, and then just walked out. DH and I work full time and we had been in talks with the sister to enter a nanny share using our nanny. We were racing over to her house each day after work to check the baby, who was being severely neglected. Horrifying diaper rashes - to the point my daughter, who wasn't even 2, looked at the newborn's ass and burst into tears. We were taking the newborn overnight, on weekends, etc. DH was working from home to keep the baby. His sister just slept all day. We tried everything to get her engaged with her baby. We tried talking to the husband - DH took him out for a beer and gave him a talk. No dice.

We tried moving his sister in with us. Didn't work. Now we have two kids. Being able to afford it luckily wasn't an issue for us. In a weird turn of events, I needed to have surgery that had a month of recovery, so I was able to spend a solid month at home, with the baby, bonding and getting her used to getting fed and changed and replied to when she needed them. We'd been a "one and done" couple prior to her but ... whatever. I am not sure how we will explain that her aunt is also her mother, etc. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.[/quote]

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