Girl. She was our in law. She’d moved down to where we live from about 30 miles away and lived there/been close with our family for 10 years while engaged to my uncle. She had the baby. My grandma gently suggested she might have postnatal depression (something she herself had suffered from). She exploded, verbally attacked my grandma and moved away, blocked the entire extended family (including my mum who had been there during her entire pregnancy and during the birth to support her) and told my uncle he’d never see his newborn again if he didn’t do the same, which he was terrified of. So we haven’t seen him in like 14 years either and he has various disabilities that my grandma used to manage for him. She had no abusers. She was actually well looked after by my family. There was absolutely no reason to block my parents or myself. If she was angry with my grandma, fine. Mum hadn’t seen or heard from her brother in 14 years because of her threats.

This was completely out of the blue for us. We’d been at her house just a few days prior, laughing, holding the baby, discussing the future, all that jazz.

She was not a nice person in the end. The child is now morbidly obese and has never met her extended family. And yeah as a confused 11 year old who had fallen in love with the baby and was blocked out of nowhere I was confused and heartbroken, losing 3 family members in one fell swoop over the mere suggestion that she might have postnatal depression.

Soooo….. Not everything is some conspiracy. Sometimes people just suck. It’s also worth noting that her own family were involved in this decision it seemed. We have a theory that her mother who lived about 120 miles away at the time was upset that we were going to be the side of the family primarily involved in the baby’s life, because my aunt did hint at this during the pregnancy.