05/06/2026
Late at night, my mom called and asked, ‘When are you coming to get the baby?’ – I replied, ‘The baby is asleep right next to me.’ My mom, trembling, whispered, ‘Then whose baby is in my house?’
My mother sounded annoyed when she said she’d been raising my baby for a month. I told her my daughter had never left my side. The silence that followed scared me more than her words.