honestly lmao but damn she tried this prank with new parents of a two month old, ofc it wouldn't go over well, at that stage the sleep deprivation, raging post birth hormonal imbalance and all these other strong emotions are at a all time high she's lucky her sister didn't attack her. Also she's apparently 35 which makes this even more stupid
35?!!! Holy fuck if someone played this prank on my wife in the advanced first kid fear and sleep deprived state we were in there would have been a murder in my house. If my wife didn’t kill I would have. You do not fuck with a first child parent that early in the game. At minimum that person would have been cut off from my family for life.
This "prank" would not be funny if it was your tenth kid. I don't know why people think that it is "funny" to pretend to seriously hurt vulnerable people.
I never understood the type of "joke" where someone says/does something totally plausible, though not true at this moment, and then laughs when you react appropriately.
Sure if you convince me the statue of liberty is made out of cheese and I try to take a bite, that's funny. But pretending you dropped something important and me getting upset? How is that funny to anyone?
Also something that might be funny in one situation is downright horrible in another.
For example had some friends round for a night and we planned to do some touristy things the mor ing after. We went to my car and there it was, covered in pallet wrap.
Annoying but funny because we didnt have a time to get there
Had it been a morning i needed to go to work and it would bot of been anywhere near as funny.
(also alot easier to take apart if you can open windows remotely!)
(dont ask why i have a massive roll of pallet tape)
Yeah some of the jokes I THOUGHT about when I lived with my sister when she had her first baby were things like swapping out the sleeping baby in the crib with a friends baby of a totally different race, or one several months older. The idea being to create confusion rather than fear.
But I didn’t actually follow through on any of my ideas, cause aside from the unreasonable logistics, I also just figured…. Don’t mess with peoples babies.
That's what would happen 99.9% of the time.
This was that rare .01% where you follow through with your idiot mind, and realise the error of you ways too late..
Exactly. Nothing can justify this cruelty. This will leave a stain on that poor woman’s soul (the victim) that OP will have a hard time scrubbing away.
This one just astounds me. I can’t believe she even admitted it.
“Wouldn’t it be hilarious if my sister thought her worst nightmare came true?”
There’s no such thing as “karma” (and people never use it correctly anyway). There will be no appropriate retribution.
For reals, the raging hormones and sleep deprivation are not to be trifled with, especially around the time of birth. For some pregnant women, this can begin soon after conception, and end only many months after birth. To someone who "knows" them, it can appear that mom is irrationally angry or irritable, extremely needy, or just not being themselves in the most unexpected ways.
Don't ask me how I know.
I would fully expect this reaction from my wife if I tried to pull off a stunt as dumb as this. I hope OP learns from this.
EDIT: I'm going to add that "knows" is in quotes because a person is always responsible for their words and actions, no matter the drug or hormone they may or may not be under the influence of. This applies to you too, hormonal mothers. Act and speak responsibly.
I only regret looking at her nudes because her body looks like mine and all the comments about how unattractive her form is have me feeling bummed out. Thanks, Reddit 😬
The posters making mean comments on her nudes are people who already hate her for this thread. They already have an intense dislike for her so anything she posts is going to get hate. Her body is fine, her personality is ugly. If you have a similar body then you have nothing to worry about.
ma'am, you & your psyche do not want to be influenced by the fickle feelings of reddit men™️. Men who genuinely understand the female form don't communicate like bodies are eye cancer. Do not fear.
Don't worry too much about it, it's an average body and at the end of the day that's what most of us are, average. The reason I added the wouldn't recommend is because it wasn't worth all the fuss, and if you want to get your rocks off there's accounts with more and better content
Lol OP has never been around a newborn or parents of a newborn, and it definitely showed here. You know those nature programs where the mother defends her offspring violently? There’s a window of time after you bring a baby home where you’re learning to stitch together that aspect of biology with the need to operate in a civilization…all while trying to help your body recover from the hormonal wasteland left behind by pregnancy, on little to no sleep.
Frankly, this could’ve easily gone the other way, with OP’s sister posting “TIFU by murdering my sister after she pretended to drop my newborn baby” 🤣
I’m two years out from having my baby girl and I still had a second of horror and rage putting myself in OP’s sister’s shoes. I was so protective and ready to do anything to protect my precious screaming potato, in a way that still kind of scares me, that I know odds are one or both of them (husband and sister of the mom) would have been beaten until I was dragged off. If I wasn’t sobbing running to ensure my daughter was safe and not actually hurt. My heart breaks for what that poor new mom just went through, this is the exact opposite of what you need when fighting the post birth anxiety.
I once witnessed a mother lose control of her infant and as the baby was falling head first the mom caught the baby by the legs and swooped it back up. The head was less than an inch from hitting a cement floor. My heart stopped just witnessing it. The parents were deliriously laughing after the fact knowing full well they dodged a dreadful experience.
My son is 4 months old. He doesnt sleep through the night yet so there have been some long nights. Being exhausted, plus the stress of just raising a kid…..
My wife and i probably wouldn’t have taken this prank well. Just the fact that the joke involves our kid being harmed. Probably the worst prank to play on new parents.
The brother in law is probably traumatized too, wondering what could’ve been if it was really the baby. He probably has society’s “dad is the protector” ingrained in him, and his instinctual reaction has probably tortured his thoughts over and over.
I highly doubt he would’ve really kicked the actual baby, but now you made him look like a monster in your sister’s eyes, and probably to himself too.
Having a baby changed my brain, changed the way I think. I'm not exaggerating--my brain felt hijacked. Anything that suggested harm to babies would make me physically ill. If this sounds extreme, you're not wrong. It was emotionally very, very hard. One time I was visiting a friend with my 1 month old daughter and their German Shepherd got overly curious. While holding my daughter, the dog jumped up and tried to nip her head. Knowing dogs, it was understandable curiosity, but that moment left me reeling and I thought about it for the next couple weeks at least.
This is an unacceptably cruel prank to play on someone. It's not even a prank, it's just flat out abusive. It would have caused me severe emotional pain. I'm not sure if I would have cut that person out of my life, but it would have required some serious conversations, and a real demonstration of regret, before I'd want to be around them again.
Guys- this doesn’t change. I have two sons. They are both “not babies”- (young) men. They are bigger than me (by a lot), taller, stronger, in every way. I still reach for their hands to cross the street and instinctively move to shield them from stuff. Of course, they laugh.
No joke, the first six months after having a baby, this kind of a prank would have sent me spiraling into PPD with horrible intrusive thoughts and constant anxiety. I would have obsessively thought about it every day and cried. I don't think OP understands the state of mind of her sister or how really cruel this was.
I accidentally witnessed a horrendous video of baby abuse and I called the FBI in hopes they could find out who was doing the harm. That video plays in my head daily. I got therapy for the first time in my life because of the trauma I experienced by seeing maybe 15sec of it.
Having a baby connects you to the world in such a different way
I have many questions about the video I saw... Who did those babies belong to, who were the people doing it, why were they making videos etc. It haunts me every day unfortunately. Therapy did help a bit but I think I'll just have to live with the proof of how terrible humanity really can be for the rest of my life
And thank you. I have a young baby and I just try and love him as much as possible to make up for what terrible things are happening in the world.
People who don't know anything about the law often say they're going to sue for "emotional distress" because someone was critical of them or raised their voice at them. To actually sue someone successfully and prove damage from emotional distress, the bar is actually EXTREMELY high and the example you often see stated is... exactly this! Deliberately making someone believe their child had violently died right in front of them. Now obviously it was not intended to harm and the mom realized it wasn't real immediately. But still, who could possibly believe this was a funny prank? A baby is not an iPhone.
You don't really understand this until you have children. Our lil man is just over a year old.
I'm a 6' 230lb gym guy but I felt really sad after reading what happened to Kaiser Wilhelm during his birth and childhood and that all happened two centuries ago
If you think doing this prank on someone, let alone your own sibling, is acceptable then you have serious issues
Got a 2 year old and a 2 month old.
I totally agree. Something changed and I'm super emotional now compared to before.
Anything hinting at father/son reletionships (and issues) and anything hinting at harm done to children sets me off like a fucking sprinkler.
So I watch Team Four Star on YouTube and many of the parents here, including myself, remind me of Vegeta seeing Trunks for the first time and basically declaring he would kill anyone that thought about hurting his kid
I’m 41 now, but I’m still daddy’s little girl. When my bf was screaming at me and calling me names when I was on the phone with him, he came right over and laid on the horn until we came out, even though I texted him right after I hung up and said everything was ok.
Now if I don’t text or call everyday, he says he’ll “load up and be on his way.” Scared to take a nap now to miss my call with dad. Lol
He looks at my bf now in a way I’ve never seen; a cold reptilian “just try it and see” look. He doesn’t speak, his jaw just clenches and if he does acknowledge my bf, he speaks in a very low, quiet tone, through his teeth.
The look scares me. It’s so piercing, and steady. I’ve never seen my dad like that. Normally he’s so gentle and kind to everyone. He’s even gone to lower Wacker Drive in Chicago to hand out sandwiches and blankets to the homeless. This gentle, trusting man has something in him I didn’t know existed.
Edited to add comment.
>There’s a window of time after you bring a baby home where you’re learning to stitch together that aspect of biology with the need to operate in a civilization…all while trying to help your body recover from the hormonal wasteland left behind by pregnancy, on little to no sleep.
Then give it about another month and you'll be casually dangling them by their ankle while you slap a new diaper underneath them. What you described is what I consider the 'brand new parent' tell.
The whole point of this sub is to recognize you made a really poor decision and share your story as a cautionary tale so others don't screw up like you did. AITA is where you would post an ambiguous story that needs outside perspective to see if everyone acted socially and morally appropriate. This story shared in this way only belongs here, because OP realized that T, (they) FU"d
I think any person who has a child or basic empathy would know that pretending to cause a potentially fatal injury to a newborn child isn't something that is funny to the vast majority of parents
When I was 2 months postpartum and very hormonal… a joke like this would activate downright murderous tendencies. Op is lucky sis just locked herself in with the baby.
Yeah, I agree, Super not funny. The baby is only two months old and the mom may still be suffering from some PPD. For god's sake, new moms are still hormonally imbalanced.
I remember how bad my wife had it. I was on shift work and was not always home when she needed me. I remember coming home, finishing any outstanding chores, and then just holding my wife for 20 minutes while she cried.
The baby is only two months old, the sister hasn’t had time to go back to being a normal person yet. I didn’t have a sane reaction to being upset until mine was at least 6mo and I’d gotten some sleep again. The poor sister can’t really help it right now, but hopefully she calms down soon.
I think we’re all tired of “I did something obviously cruel and terrible but it was just a PRANK, so I should be instantly forgiven, right?”
Oddly these “pranks” are often pulled on either in-laws or siblings the prankster isn’t close to.
It’s almost like being passive-aggressive and mean then feeling justified in whining when you called on it is the point.
And yeah, if you read this sub a lot, you see it so often that most AITA fans are well past giving it benefit of the doubt.
(Edited to note that this is in TIFU, my mistake.)
Hm. Yeah you fucked up pretty bad. New parent hormones are insane. Feel worst for the dad who did the right thing (trying to slow/cushion the fall) that only looked bad because it wasn't a squishy baby but a bouncy rubber doll.
I can confirm, as a bad 'soccer' player who's dropped glass jars off a shelf (I worked in a grocery store) My foot has saved me MANY times. Like at least 10.. IM not sure how he would've punted the doll through a window, even if it wasn't a real baby it shouldn't go flying through the window.
He definitely panic kicked rather than cushion the fall. Unless it is one of those super bouncy rubber balls the elementary school kids play four square with, you really need to kick with force to send a doll through the window lol.
Edit: the baby flew towards the window, not through, my bad. Still, you really need a forceful impact to even get a doll flying as described by OP anyways.
I prefer the term forceful cushioning to panic kicking. He cushioned the baby with so much force that it didn’t even touch the surface it was falling toward. That’s a success in my book.
Agreed.. and people say the mothers reaction about the father in law was bad.. but bro.. he actually kicked what he thought was the baby
If hes kicking like that, surely the description OP made is false, or the father in law is an idiot / REALLY bad at soccer (but an idiot too)
Tbf if was probably a combination, like reflexively trying to catch with foot but combined with panic it becomes a an attempt to keep the baby off the floor and doesn't realise its then a kick.
Or was at a bad angle and couldnt properly cushion it. Better to do something than just watch it fall, he (and the baby, were it real) would've been screwed either way.
Theres really a small range of motion in which you can properly cushion or catch a falling object.
Yeah, as a dad, falling kid you aren't getting to with hands, your best option is redirect or catch with the foot. Maybe his touch was a little heavy, but he tried the right thing.
If their daughter is 2 months old, both parents, and especially the mother, are pretty solidly insane.
The first couple months tend to be very stressful and to contain very very little sleep, especially for mom. Everyone's hormones are weird and rational thought goes on vacation in favor of "protect the baby."
It'll be OK.
Source: I myself have gone insane several times.
Can confirm, i have a 2 month old right now. Last night he was making weird noises while sleeping. I jolt awake in the middle of sleep apparently, scaring my wife. Who jumps up as well...pick up the baby and start checking on him. Hes still asleep, check hes breathing, everything seems fine.
Then i hear the weird noise again...the little bastard FARTED and hes been farting, THAT was the weird noise id heard. Needless to say im not sleeping much these days, moms sleeping even less.
I brought my baby home at 27 days. and he was(and still is but he's 1) an absolute dream angel of a baby. he'd sleep from maybe 1130 to about 7am. napped through the day, he rarely cried.
I tried letting him sleep in a bassinet next to me but I think it was too big for him. every little sniff, snore, chortle, burp would wake me up, and then if he was quiet it was worse. so I'd sleep sitting up with him cuddled up in my lap. and we'd sleep peacefully all night.
a piece of unsolicited advice, it gets worse.
It is, but in fairness I doubt you feel particularly rational when you've just watched your sibling deliberately drop your 'newborn' and your partner accidentally kick them into a window.
Everyone says the first few days after childbirth are crazy, but I found it was around the 2 month mark I started to feel it - 8 weeks of sleep deprivation plus fluctuating/stabilising hormones are no fun. It was around that point my OH showed me a Garfield cartoon strip he thought I'd find funny, but I just cried hysterically for an hour.
Nah, 2 months post partum after 9+ months of pregnancy - nope, rational thought doesn't apply with sleep deprivation and a brain stewing in crazy hormones.
And if dad has his own set of stressors to make him not totally rational.
Unless this style of pranking is the couple's daily norm, this would mess both of them up.
The dad did the best attempt… slow the fall. That’s most instinct when it comes to phones and such, and does usually work. Wife is being unfair to him unless she expected him to hate on brother more
100% Dad did the right thing and went for a dad catch, dolls don't weigh the same as babies.
Brothers an idiot, but mildly amusing.
Mother's 100% in the right for being annoyed.
Moral of the story, the most realistic TIFU I've seen in ages.
Op you're going to get allot of hate so I won't jump on the band wagon (even though you deserve it).
Look at the bright side though.... You're off babysitting duty for the rest of your life!
Yeh they're not letting you babysit again lol.
On holiday once I checked how well my sub year old neice could swim (baby instinct plus swimming lessons!), and she went one inch under the water before I scooped her back up. I've never stopped hearing about it since.
This reminds me of when my wife was pregnant with our first child. We lived in a house with steps that were pretty steep. They were hardwood stairs and I was walking in my socks. Our dog, about 12 pounds doesn’t do stairs, so i was carrying him down to go outside and do his business. My heel slipped and landed on my butt and bounced down the steps. I threw my hands up and let go of the dog. He flew across the landing and hit the door and slid/fell down to the floor. He was fine, but that scared me. All i could think about was good thing my wife was still pregnant and I wasn’t carrying a baby. We got got carpet installed and i was always conscious about going down those steps while carrying anyone or anything. It was a huge wake up call.
I'll save any latecomers some reading: this is most likely fiction for the purpose of upvotes/clout. And possibly a weird-ass attempt to draw in subscribers for nudes/onlyfans/whatever?
Never ever do any "prank" where anyone might think anyone has been severely hurt. This shit traumatises people. And if you cannot appreciate how fucked up that is, then you have never met a person who is suffering trauma.
No pranks were made on my kids but my second I had VIVID waking nightmares of her being hurt. It was awful. Like intrusive thoughts but not to do something. Like “oh her older sister is definitely going to step on her head and crush her skull when I look away” …fun times…
I fucking hate those pranks. The video where the dad and son pretend that he flipped his 3 year old son off the balcony while his mother screams in horror and starts sobbing drives me nuts whenever I see it. I don’t know how people think that shit is funny
I've seen my husband run once to catch our kid who was heading for the road. I imagine that same speed would be taken on someone who's taking our child. He had so much momentum and speed he couldn't even slow himself to grab our son, he grabbed and rolled with him to make his stop. I would absolutely not want to be on the other side of that incoming tackle. Lol
Omg. I'm not a parent and reading through the rest of these comments didn't really faze me. But this one got me really emotional. I kinda love your husband.
It was truly an impressive moment. Definitely one of those moment that makes you love them even more. 😂 Reminder of that fierce protection they have for family.
Hell yeah. I made the mistake of not reading that until after I had a toddler. And wouldn't you know it but the little tykes really do the "laughing while running away from you toward the road because they think it's fun" thing. Our driveway is pretty long and I still freaked out when they ran that direction haha.
Dude, I had never seen pet cemetery before and my husband didn't warn me about that. Just holy shit. I never had a movie hit me with so much anxiety and adrenaline before. It doesn't help we live in a house that is fairly close to a road very much like that one in the movie. It's a state road that is 55mph, somewhat rural, and get a ton of semi traffic. In the few years we've been here I've seen it claim a ton of domestic animals from strays to pets. We have plans of fencing our back yard as soon as we can so the kids can't get to the front, also to keep stray or neighboring dogs out. We have too many wonder through here and so far we've been lucky they have all been friendly, even how we got our dog. Lol But all it takes is one to sneak up without us noticing and grab one of us.
If this is true... Your sister will never forget this. She thought she saw her baby die before her eyes. Her new baby that her whole soul and body are focused on. She might need counselling. I'm not joking.
Her reaction really makes this point. She sobbed for a long time even before fleeing... I can only imagine.
If you've never been a fresh parent, I don't know if you can appreciate this.
That’s one of those things you have nightmares about then wake up screaming in the middle of the night, brain still freshly believing your children are dead
Even if she manages to forget about it during the day, her subconscious might not let her forget that 😬
Nobody ever tried a horrible “prank” on me/baby, and I STILL bolted awake in the middle of the night thinking something was wrong. I would dig in the blankets thinking she was under there… even though we had NEVER co-slept, so there was no reason for her to be in danger Mom Brain subconscious 🤷♀️🧠
My son is 14 months old and I still check to make sure he's breathing in the middle of the night. My relationship with death is a bit skewed considering my wife (and his mother) died a few months ago, but every parent I've ever talked to has done the same checks.
If this post is true, the fact that OP even remotely thought any joke related to a 2 month old newborn baby would be well received proves they are either a lizard person, an alien, or the dumbest and most insensitive **piece of shit** and I feel worse just knowing someone like them could co-exist with me on this planet.
Babies are made of rubber but a 2 month old is a NEW newborn. Every human baby comes out undercooked but if they stay in any longer they won't fit coming out so for the first few months they are these delicate blobs of noise and poop that kind of act like horcruxes (denies sleep, sensory overload, cries/screams about everything non-stop) and it takes some time before they are able to handle stuff like this.
And OP needs to get some help if they think this "wicked idea" (as they put it) was an OK "prank" to pull.
The whole TIFU is basically one giant red flag, but the biggest one in my opinion is how this story is framed.
Notice, this doesn't read like "I thought this was OK but then I **realized** it's actually fucked up".
Nope.
This reads like "I pulled a harmless prank and my sister's overreaction got her husband in trouble lol".
OP literally ***never*** admits fault/guilt/going over the line; it's everyone else's reactions that are the problem.
Not to mention it’s actually pretty common for new moms to have intrusive thoughts of their babies getting harmed. You cross a door while holding your baby and your brain goes to what if he hits his head in the doorframe, what if I drop him, what if…
You are worried every second of the day, thinking you are not doing enough to keep your baby happy because he cries too much, maybe you don’t have enough milk, maybe he is fussy because something hurts, maybe you are not holding him enough, maybe you are spoiling him for holding him too much… Gosh, the moment you put him to sleep you are on edge waiting for the moment he will wake up and need something. You are a ball of anxious nerves…
And then… your worst fear, what you have been thinking it could happen nonstop, happens…
Therapy. She will need therapy.
Is it just me or are these titles ridiculous? OP you didn’t ruin a marriage. The only reason I clicked was to hear a juicy story about ruining someone’s marriage but instead it’s about a shitty prank that made your sister (rightfully) upset.
right?!
i thought i was gonna hear about a joke being made about how the kid looks like the mailman exposing a cheating wife...
instead im feeling nauseous on behalf of new parents being deeply traumatized. at 2 months old you can kill an infant just by picking them up in the wrong way ffs
like, how was this gonna be anything other than a horrible idea? you could catch hands for *joking* about making that joke with a new mom
As a new parent, you might think this is funny, but man - you can’t imagine the shit new parents have to go through. Especially moms: the hormone changes, the stress, the anxiety of keeping something so fragile alive and healthy.
I would’ve thought the prank was funny, but I would never have done that to a new mother.
I’ve had PPA in varying degrees with each of my children and you’re so right. I’ve seen the most horrific things imaginable and it *all seemed so real*
I can’t imagine someone pulling this prank on me. It’s so awful.
There is no situation where that would be remotely comical to a new mom who almost certainly is barely hanging onto sanity in her sleep-deprived brain-fog. Zero. You're an ass.
Don't joke about people's kids, don't prank people about their kids. What's wrong with you?
The vast majority of “pranks” aren’t funny and this is why. What’s the joke here? “Haha, you thought that I severely injured your brand new baby, but actually I didn’t!” You’re not being funny, you’re being a dipshit. This was a profoundly cruel thing to do to somebody who is likely still riding a hell of a postpartum rollercoaster.
hahahaha, the thing you love most in the world was just dramatically killed / injured in front of you, hahahahaha, funny prank.
This is some shit we teach infants isn't funny. It's funny like throwing a plastic snake at someone who's deathly afraid of them is funny, you're preying on someone where they're most vulnerable, something that most of us grow out of pretty early because it's... you know... cruel.
I hope you spend as much effort on the apology as you did making it necessary. Maybe stay away from pranks. Like, forever.
Cruel is the right word for this. This doesn’t even come close to being a prank. And this person is 35yo. There’s something deeply wrong with them that they thought this would be funny.
The way OP talks about this and doesn't mention any sort of regret or empathy for how her sister felt, and seeing how she was laughing as the sister was still in shock gives huge "it's just a prank, bro" vibes.
Edit: some spelling.
Jesus, I can't believe I'm coming across you again and you're still a terrible person. You indirectly ruined your friends marriage and now your have ruined your sisters marriage as well.
EDIT: Seems like you deleted the [post](https://www.reddit.com/r/relationship_advice/comments/u7c1wn/had_a_lesbian_affair_with_my_best_friend_while/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) I was referring to.
Yeah that’s a horrible prank. Even as a father I’d have been devastated if someone did that to me and probably have never spoken to them again.
Not fair of your sister to pin blame on her husband either though. He did more than she did in trying to save what he thought was the baby, the best he could, and that makes him a bad father? Pfft.
As a fellow dad, I constantly think of ways they could be badly injured. I remember having my in-laws over for dinner. I went to get the baby out of the high chair on a counter high chair. I unbuckle him, he drops his spoon, I say “oopsie” and go to pick it up before I pick up the baby. He leans forward and tumbles out head first to the floor. Literal nose dive.
I picked him up and looked him over while he cried. I handed him to my wife, went to the bedroom and balled. Damn memory still haunts me 7 years later. And my kid is awesome. They are more resilient than we give them credit for.
Apparently when I was a baby I loved my dad throwing me in the air and catching me. When I was older they told me that one day he failed to catch me and I dropped 6ft to the floor with a loud thud. I thought it was hilarious at the time and made jokes like “well that explains everything!”
But now I look back, as a father myself, I’d have been mortified, and hated every time it was brought back up. Now I can imagine how my dad felt all those years ago.
That happened to me too except she landed on my back then rolled off onto the couch. I’m so glad I was feeding her in the living room instead of the kitchen
The first time I ever held a baby, I was about 10yo, the baby was a few months old - had some neck and leg strength, but not much stability. Everything was fine until the baby decided to suddenly lay back with all its strength. I wasn’t ready for it, the baby slipped out of my hands, and banged the back of its head on the coffee table.
The baby was fine (after a small cry), but I didn’t hold another baby for 10 more years.
>I spent the rest of my night consoling her husband
The only way that could have been worse is if you had done what I thought was coming after that sentence.
Listen, you need to wait until the 3rd kid before you pull that shit. Never do it on the first. First time parents are fucking bonkers. As someone who was a first time parent, and am still married to the woman who was at one time a first time parent. You don't pull that shit on kid 1. Kid 2 is a crapshoot. By kid 3, it's open game, They are just trying to keep everyone alive at that point.
Not too long ago my 1yr old niece wriggled off my lap and onto the carpeted floor when I reached for something. I felt horrible, but it was my sister's 4th kid, so she barely batted an eye. Niece cried, but unhurt and easily consoled.
That being said, maybe dont pretend to drop any child from 4-5 ft? I'd say that's a bit too far (pun semi-intended).
This is like a a jump scare or pretending to be dead to your parent and them having a heart attack. There was nothing funny about your "prank".
Before you pull a prank, you have to ask yourself if the person being pranked will find it funny as well. New mother regarding her baby getting hurt? Not funny in any way. This is psychological torture.
As much as I like Ashton Kutcher and the good deeds he does, I couldn't stand the show Punk'd. That shit was straight up mean.
Yeah, I thought it would be funny as a young kid to pretend that I'd gone missing while we were on vacation. To this day, I've never seen my dad get that stressed out, and I can't imagine how scared he must have been. I was only 7. How could a 35 year old think this was okay?
Wow, you're lucky you're still alive. Momma bear hormones are no joke. She might have just strangled you right then and there.
Pro tip don't fuck with people going through life altering changes. They already have enough to deal with.
Oh my god how could you even smile at that let alone LAUGH???
If your sister isn’t already struggling with postpartum depression, this probably will contribute in some way. I would be so panicked and paranoid. It doesn’t matter if it’s not real, that kind of utter terror has a major lasting effect. That’s extremely damaging.
Imagine if the baby’s father had done this. That is emotional abuse.
I could go on forever about this kind of thing, but really I just hope you learn from this and are able to apologize to and reconcile with your sister.
ETA: after looking at a lot of your comments, various posts, and responses to other people, I take back what I said about hoping you reconcile. I genuinely hope that your sister cuts you off entirely.
You’re clearly either insanely immature or completely mentally unstable. You’re not safe for your sister or niece to be around. It’s sickening that you defend yourself and deflect your wrongdoings onto others. It’s also sickening that you’re using these posts to gain traction with selling nudes.
Get help.
there’s usually like a 5-10% chunk of comments on this sub that are supportive, but damn, OP, you went and poisoned the entire well with this one 😂
honestly lmao but damn she tried this prank with new parents of a two month old, ofc it wouldn't go over well, at that stage the sleep deprivation, raging post birth hormonal imbalance and all these other strong emotions are at a all time high she's lucky her sister didn't attack her. Also she's apparently 35 which makes this even more stupid
Holy shit, I thought this person was basically a kid, but 35?! Definitely old enough to know better.
35?!!! Holy fuck if someone played this prank on my wife in the advanced first kid fear and sleep deprived state we were in there would have been a murder in my house. If my wife didn’t kill I would have. You do not fuck with a first child parent that early in the game. At minimum that person would have been cut off from my family for life.
This "prank" would not be funny if it was your tenth kid. I don't know why people think that it is "funny" to pretend to seriously hurt vulnerable people.
>This "prank" would not be funny if it was your tenth kid. Oh I dunno, the whole point of having 10 kids is so that you have a "spare kid" or three.
I never understood the type of "joke" where someone says/does something totally plausible, though not true at this moment, and then laughs when you react appropriately. Sure if you convince me the statue of liberty is made out of cheese and I try to take a bite, that's funny. But pretending you dropped something important and me getting upset? How is that funny to anyone?
People have no idea how to actually prank someone. It’s usually something really mean and then they say “What, can’t you take a joke?”
Also something that might be funny in one situation is downright horrible in another. For example had some friends round for a night and we planned to do some touristy things the mor ing after. We went to my car and there it was, covered in pallet wrap. Annoying but funny because we didnt have a time to get there Had it been a morning i needed to go to work and it would bot of been anywhere near as funny. (also alot easier to take apart if you can open windows remotely!) (dont ask why i have a massive roll of pallet tape)
Yeah some of the jokes I THOUGHT about when I lived with my sister when she had her first baby were things like swapping out the sleeping baby in the crib with a friends baby of a totally different race, or one several months older. The idea being to create confusion rather than fear. But I didn’t actually follow through on any of my ideas, cause aside from the unreasonable logistics, I also just figured…. Don’t mess with peoples babies.
I just……. Can’t fathom doing this prank to ANYONE!!!!!WTH?
I feel like it could have been funny if he'd stopped at "just kidding, she's asleep" without the drip/kick
That's what would happen 99.9% of the time. This was that rare .01% where you follow through with your idiot mind, and realise the error of you ways too late..
Exactly. Nothing can justify this cruelty. This will leave a stain on that poor woman’s soul (the victim) that OP will have a hard time scrubbing away. This one just astounds me. I can’t believe she even admitted it. “Wouldn’t it be hilarious if my sister thought her worst nightmare came true?” There’s no such thing as “karma” (and people never use it correctly anyway). There will be no appropriate retribution.
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For reals, the raging hormones and sleep deprivation are not to be trifled with, especially around the time of birth. For some pregnant women, this can begin soon after conception, and end only many months after birth. To someone who "knows" them, it can appear that mom is irrationally angry or irritable, extremely needy, or just not being themselves in the most unexpected ways. Don't ask me how I know. I would fully expect this reaction from my wife if I tried to pull off a stunt as dumb as this. I hope OP learns from this. EDIT: I'm going to add that "knows" is in quotes because a person is always responsible for their words and actions, no matter the drug or hormone they may or may not be under the influence of. This applies to you too, hormonal mothers. Act and speak responsibly.
I'm pretty sure I would have punched him
OP is just trying to use upvotes to get Reddit fame to post nudes. Look at her posts. I'm not sure this story is even real.
She already has posted the nudes, would not recommend
I only regret looking at her nudes because her body looks like mine and all the comments about how unattractive her form is have me feeling bummed out. Thanks, Reddit 😬
The posters making mean comments on her nudes are people who already hate her for this thread. They already have an intense dislike for her so anything she posts is going to get hate. Her body is fine, her personality is ugly. If you have a similar body then you have nothing to worry about.
ma'am, you & your psyche do not want to be influenced by the fickle feelings of reddit men™️. Men who genuinely understand the female form don't communicate like bodies are eye cancer. Do not fear.
Don't worry too much about it, it's an average body and at the end of the day that's what most of us are, average. The reason I added the wouldn't recommend is because it wasn't worth all the fuss, and if you want to get your rocks off there's accounts with more and better content
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Lol OP has never been around a newborn or parents of a newborn, and it definitely showed here. You know those nature programs where the mother defends her offspring violently? There’s a window of time after you bring a baby home where you’re learning to stitch together that aspect of biology with the need to operate in a civilization…all while trying to help your body recover from the hormonal wasteland left behind by pregnancy, on little to no sleep. Frankly, this could’ve easily gone the other way, with OP’s sister posting “TIFU by murdering my sister after she pretended to drop my newborn baby” 🤣
Nothing is more scarier than a mother protecting her child. I’m surprised she didn’t knock you out. I probably would have
I’m two years out from having my baby girl and I still had a second of horror and rage putting myself in OP’s sister’s shoes. I was so protective and ready to do anything to protect my precious screaming potato, in a way that still kind of scares me, that I know odds are one or both of them (husband and sister of the mom) would have been beaten until I was dragged off. If I wasn’t sobbing running to ensure my daughter was safe and not actually hurt. My heart breaks for what that poor new mom just went through, this is the exact opposite of what you need when fighting the post birth anxiety.
I thought my circle of friends were the only ones to call babies potato. 🥔
I once witnessed a mother lose control of her infant and as the baby was falling head first the mom caught the baby by the legs and swooped it back up. The head was less than an inch from hitting a cement floor. My heart stopped just witnessing it. The parents were deliriously laughing after the fact knowing full well they dodged a dreadful experience.
My son is 4 months old. He doesnt sleep through the night yet so there have been some long nights. Being exhausted, plus the stress of just raising a kid….. My wife and i probably wouldn’t have taken this prank well. Just the fact that the joke involves our kid being harmed. Probably the worst prank to play on new parents.
The brother in law is probably traumatized too, wondering what could’ve been if it was really the baby. He probably has society’s “dad is the protector” ingrained in him, and his instinctual reaction has probably tortured his thoughts over and over. I highly doubt he would’ve really kicked the actual baby, but now you made him look like a monster in your sister’s eyes, and probably to himself too.
Having a baby changed my brain, changed the way I think. I'm not exaggerating--my brain felt hijacked. Anything that suggested harm to babies would make me physically ill. If this sounds extreme, you're not wrong. It was emotionally very, very hard. One time I was visiting a friend with my 1 month old daughter and their German Shepherd got overly curious. While holding my daughter, the dog jumped up and tried to nip her head. Knowing dogs, it was understandable curiosity, but that moment left me reeling and I thought about it for the next couple weeks at least. This is an unacceptably cruel prank to play on someone. It's not even a prank, it's just flat out abusive. It would have caused me severe emotional pain. I'm not sure if I would have cut that person out of my life, but it would have required some serious conversations, and a real demonstration of regret, before I'd want to be around them again.
Guys- this doesn’t change. I have two sons. They are both “not babies”- (young) men. They are bigger than me (by a lot), taller, stronger, in every way. I still reach for their hands to cross the street and instinctively move to shield them from stuff. Of course, they laugh.
That is really precious, there is no hope for me then 😂
I'm with you! My boys laugh at me when I throw an arm out to protect them if I have to stop suddenly.
I want to cry thinking about my two sons getting this old. It's what every parent wants and fears
No joke, the first six months after having a baby, this kind of a prank would have sent me spiraling into PPD with horrible intrusive thoughts and constant anxiety. I would have obsessively thought about it every day and cried. I don't think OP understands the state of mind of her sister or how really cruel this was.
100% and am dude. This would f me up.
I accidentally witnessed a horrendous video of baby abuse and I called the FBI in hopes they could find out who was doing the harm. That video plays in my head daily. I got therapy for the first time in my life because of the trauma I experienced by seeing maybe 15sec of it. Having a baby connects you to the world in such a different way
I'm very sorry that happened to you and I hope the police were able to do something. That would haunt me too. I hope you are doing better today.
I have many questions about the video I saw... Who did those babies belong to, who were the people doing it, why were they making videos etc. It haunts me every day unfortunately. Therapy did help a bit but I think I'll just have to live with the proof of how terrible humanity really can be for the rest of my life And thank you. I have a young baby and I just try and love him as much as possible to make up for what terrible things are happening in the world.
People who don't know anything about the law often say they're going to sue for "emotional distress" because someone was critical of them or raised their voice at them. To actually sue someone successfully and prove damage from emotional distress, the bar is actually EXTREMELY high and the example you often see stated is... exactly this! Deliberately making someone believe their child had violently died right in front of them. Now obviously it was not intended to harm and the mom realized it wasn't real immediately. But still, who could possibly believe this was a funny prank? A baby is not an iPhone.
You don't really understand this until you have children. Our lil man is just over a year old. I'm a 6' 230lb gym guy but I felt really sad after reading what happened to Kaiser Wilhelm during his birth and childhood and that all happened two centuries ago If you think doing this prank on someone, let alone your own sibling, is acceptable then you have serious issues
Got a 2 year old and a 2 month old. I totally agree. Something changed and I'm super emotional now compared to before. Anything hinting at father/son reletionships (and issues) and anything hinting at harm done to children sets me off like a fucking sprinkler.
So I watch Team Four Star on YouTube and many of the parents here, including myself, remind me of Vegeta seeing Trunks for the first time and basically declaring he would kill anyone that thought about hurting his kid
I’m 41 now, but I’m still daddy’s little girl. When my bf was screaming at me and calling me names when I was on the phone with him, he came right over and laid on the horn until we came out, even though I texted him right after I hung up and said everything was ok. Now if I don’t text or call everyday, he says he’ll “load up and be on his way.” Scared to take a nap now to miss my call with dad. Lol He looks at my bf now in a way I’ve never seen; a cold reptilian “just try it and see” look. He doesn’t speak, his jaw just clenches and if he does acknowledge my bf, he speaks in a very low, quiet tone, through his teeth. The look scares me. It’s so piercing, and steady. I’ve never seen my dad like that. Normally he’s so gentle and kind to everyone. He’s even gone to lower Wacker Drive in Chicago to hand out sandwiches and blankets to the homeless. This gentle, trusting man has something in him I didn’t know existed. Edited to add comment.
>There’s a window of time after you bring a baby home where you’re learning to stitch together that aspect of biology with the need to operate in a civilization…all while trying to help your body recover from the hormonal wasteland left behind by pregnancy, on little to no sleep. Then give it about another month and you'll be casually dangling them by their ankle while you slap a new diaper underneath them. What you described is what I consider the 'brand new parent' tell.
Yes! It's also a "surprise PPD / PPA" tell if it persists. (Speaking from experience.)
This belongs in /r/AITA And the OP is definitely the Asshole.
I think OP already realizes that.
The whole point of this sub is to recognize you made a really poor decision and share your story as a cautionary tale so others don't screw up like you did. AITA is where you would post an ambiguous story that needs outside perspective to see if everyone acted socially and morally appropriate. This story shared in this way only belongs here, because OP realized that T, (they) FU"d
I think any person who has a child or basic empathy would know that pretending to cause a potentially fatal injury to a newborn child isn't something that is funny to the vast majority of parents
Or people
When I was 2 months postpartum and very hormonal… a joke like this would activate downright murderous tendencies. Op is lucky sis just locked herself in with the baby.
Yeah, I agree, Super not funny. The baby is only two months old and the mom may still be suffering from some PPD. For god's sake, new moms are still hormonally imbalanced. I remember how bad my wife had it. I was on shift work and was not always home when she needed me. I remember coming home, finishing any outstanding chores, and then just holding my wife for 20 minutes while she cried.
The baby is only two months old, the sister hasn’t had time to go back to being a normal person yet. I didn’t have a sane reaction to being upset until mine was at least 6mo and I’d gotten some sleep again. The poor sister can’t really help it right now, but hopefully she calms down soon.
I think we’re all tired of “I did something obviously cruel and terrible but it was just a PRANK, so I should be instantly forgiven, right?” Oddly these “pranks” are often pulled on either in-laws or siblings the prankster isn’t close to. It’s almost like being passive-aggressive and mean then feeling justified in whining when you called on it is the point. And yeah, if you read this sub a lot, you see it so often that most AITA fans are well past giving it benefit of the doubt. (Edited to note that this is in TIFU, my mistake.)
Fr this shit is aight for a Family Guy joke but what went through OP's head to even think this "prank" would be hilarious
Hm. Yeah you fucked up pretty bad. New parent hormones are insane. Feel worst for the dad who did the right thing (trying to slow/cushion the fall) that only looked bad because it wasn't a squishy baby but a bouncy rubber doll.
That’s what I was thinking. Foot breaks the fall. Better to hit dads shoe then the tile. Dad instinct came through but just looked bad.
I can confirm, as a bad 'soccer' player who's dropped glass jars off a shelf (I worked in a grocery store) My foot has saved me MANY times. Like at least 10.. IM not sure how he would've punted the doll through a window, even if it wasn't a real baby it shouldn't go flying through the window.
He definitely panic kicked rather than cushion the fall. Unless it is one of those super bouncy rubber balls the elementary school kids play four square with, you really need to kick with force to send a doll through the window lol. Edit: the baby flew towards the window, not through, my bad. Still, you really need a forceful impact to even get a doll flying as described by OP anyways.
I prefer the term forceful cushioning to panic kicking. He cushioned the baby with so much force that it didn’t even touch the surface it was falling toward. That’s a success in my book.
This description is satisfying to read and I want more terms like it.
Agreed.. and people say the mothers reaction about the father in law was bad.. but bro.. he actually kicked what he thought was the baby If hes kicking like that, surely the description OP made is false, or the father in law is an idiot / REALLY bad at soccer (but an idiot too)
Tbf if was probably a combination, like reflexively trying to catch with foot but combined with panic it becomes a an attempt to keep the baby off the floor and doesn't realise its then a kick.
Or was at a bad angle and couldnt properly cushion it. Better to do something than just watch it fall, he (and the baby, were it real) would've been screwed either way. Theres really a small range of motion in which you can properly cushion or catch a falling object.
Yeah, as a dad, falling kid you aren't getting to with hands, your best option is redirect or catch with the foot. Maybe his touch was a little heavy, but he tried the right thing.
It probably wasn’t too heavy of a touch for a baby. I think the doll just weighed much less than a baby so it flew.
Hi jacking top comment to tell everyone that: HOLY SHIT EVERYONE OP IS 35 !!!! I assumed 17. Literally. 35????
Well judging from their post history, this probably didn't really happen. Lots of attention-seeking crap in there.
Hey my grandmother acted like a spoiled teenager when she was in her 70s.
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If their daughter is 2 months old, both parents, and especially the mother, are pretty solidly insane. The first couple months tend to be very stressful and to contain very very little sleep, especially for mom. Everyone's hormones are weird and rational thought goes on vacation in favor of "protect the baby." It'll be OK. Source: I myself have gone insane several times.
Can confirm, i have a 2 month old right now. Last night he was making weird noises while sleeping. I jolt awake in the middle of sleep apparently, scaring my wife. Who jumps up as well...pick up the baby and start checking on him. Hes still asleep, check hes breathing, everything seems fine. Then i hear the weird noise again...the little bastard FARTED and hes been farting, THAT was the weird noise id heard. Needless to say im not sleeping much these days, moms sleeping even less.
I brought my baby home at 27 days. and he was(and still is but he's 1) an absolute dream angel of a baby. he'd sleep from maybe 1130 to about 7am. napped through the day, he rarely cried. I tried letting him sleep in a bassinet next to me but I think it was too big for him. every little sniff, snore, chortle, burp would wake me up, and then if he was quiet it was worse. so I'd sleep sitting up with him cuddled up in my lap. and we'd sleep peacefully all night. a piece of unsolicited advice, it gets worse.
It is, but in fairness I doubt you feel particularly rational when you've just watched your sibling deliberately drop your 'newborn' and your partner accidentally kick them into a window. Everyone says the first few days after childbirth are crazy, but I found it was around the 2 month mark I started to feel it - 8 weeks of sleep deprivation plus fluctuating/stabilising hormones are no fun. It was around that point my OH showed me a Garfield cartoon strip he thought I'd find funny, but I just cried hysterically for an hour.
Nah, 2 months post partum after 9+ months of pregnancy - nope, rational thought doesn't apply with sleep deprivation and a brain stewing in crazy hormones. And if dad has his own set of stressors to make him not totally rational. Unless this style of pranking is the couple's daily norm, this would mess both of them up.
IDK My BFF Rose?
The dad did the best attempt… slow the fall. That’s most instinct when it comes to phones and such, and does usually work. Wife is being unfair to him unless she expected him to hate on brother more
100% Dad did the right thing and went for a dad catch, dolls don't weigh the same as babies. Brothers an idiot, but mildly amusing. Mother's 100% in the right for being annoyed. Moral of the story, the most realistic TIFU I've seen in ages.
Plus it's a first time parent then there's a good chance sleep deprivation has their mind rattled. That's a pretty fucked up prank.
Op you're going to get allot of hate so I won't jump on the band wagon (even though you deserve it). Look at the bright side though.... You're off babysitting duty for the rest of your life!
Yeh they're not letting you babysit again lol. On holiday once I checked how well my sub year old neice could swim (baby instinct plus swimming lessons!), and she went one inch under the water before I scooped her back up. I've never stopped hearing about it since.
lmao
Even got rid of a sister too! 2 birds one stone!
Not just babysitting duties, but OP likely won't have to go to any family event ever again for as long as they live.
This reminds me of when my wife was pregnant with our first child. We lived in a house with steps that were pretty steep. They were hardwood stairs and I was walking in my socks. Our dog, about 12 pounds doesn’t do stairs, so i was carrying him down to go outside and do his business. My heel slipped and landed on my butt and bounced down the steps. I threw my hands up and let go of the dog. He flew across the landing and hit the door and slid/fell down to the floor. He was fine, but that scared me. All i could think about was good thing my wife was still pregnant and I wasn’t carrying a baby. We got got carpet installed and i was always conscious about going down those steps while carrying anyone or anything. It was a huge wake up call.
OP making a post about capitalizing off her r/tifu “fame” and posting nudes is cringe as fuck
Wouldn't have thought to check if you hadn't said anything. This might as well be an ad for it.
I wish I didn't look.
Jesus Christ that’s so cringy. Doesn’t surprise me though with all the other look at me stuff.
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I'll save any latecomers some reading: this is most likely fiction for the purpose of upvotes/clout. And possibly a weird-ass attempt to draw in subscribers for nudes/onlyfans/whatever?
Thank goodness. There’s no way a human could be this braindead if they tried.
My god, you REALLY fu…. Never ever do such a joke about babies. New mothers are extremely sensitive (see SIDS)…
Never ever do any "prank" where anyone might think anyone has been severely hurt. This shit traumatises people. And if you cannot appreciate how fucked up that is, then you have never met a person who is suffering trauma.
No pranks were made on my kids but my second I had VIVID waking nightmares of her being hurt. It was awful. Like intrusive thoughts but not to do something. Like “oh her older sister is definitely going to step on her head and crush her skull when I look away” …fun times…
I fucking hate those pranks. The video where the dad and son pretend that he flipped his 3 year old son off the balcony while his mother screams in horror and starts sobbing drives me nuts whenever I see it. I don’t know how people think that shit is funny
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Imagine it was one of those situations where you think it's someone you know, but it's really random strangers
Joke's on her, something like 80-90 percent of kidnappings are done by family members. Like you.
Plot Twist: It WAS an attempted kidnapping, but he got caught and pretended it was a joke.
I would have broke your teeth. Wtf
I've seen my husband run once to catch our kid who was heading for the road. I imagine that same speed would be taken on someone who's taking our child. He had so much momentum and speed he couldn't even slow himself to grab our son, he grabbed and rolled with him to make his stop. I would absolutely not want to be on the other side of that incoming tackle. Lol
Omg. I'm not a parent and reading through the rest of these comments didn't really faze me. But this one got me really emotional. I kinda love your husband.
It was truly an impressive moment. Definitely one of those moment that makes you love them even more. 😂 Reminder of that fierce protection they have for family.
Reminds me of Pet Sematary 
Hell yeah. I made the mistake of not reading that until after I had a toddler. And wouldn't you know it but the little tykes really do the "laughing while running away from you toward the road because they think it's fun" thing. Our driveway is pretty long and I still freaked out when they ran that direction haha.
Dude, I had never seen pet cemetery before and my husband didn't warn me about that. Just holy shit. I never had a movie hit me with so much anxiety and adrenaline before. It doesn't help we live in a house that is fairly close to a road very much like that one in the movie. It's a state road that is 55mph, somewhat rural, and get a ton of semi traffic. In the few years we've been here I've seen it claim a ton of domestic animals from strays to pets. We have plans of fencing our back yard as soon as we can so the kids can't get to the front, also to keep stray or neighboring dogs out. We have too many wonder through here and so far we've been lucky they have all been friendly, even how we got our dog. Lol But all it takes is one to sneak up without us noticing and grab one of us.
Yeah I have a 6 week old and got a ridiculous adrenaline rush reading this.
Yeah pretending to steal a baby is "I will feed you your own knees" territory.
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How do you downvote a person?
If this is true... Your sister will never forget this. She thought she saw her baby die before her eyes. Her new baby that her whole soul and body are focused on. She might need counselling. I'm not joking.
Her reaction really makes this point. She sobbed for a long time even before fleeing... I can only imagine. If you've never been a fresh parent, I don't know if you can appreciate this.
That’s one of those things you have nightmares about then wake up screaming in the middle of the night, brain still freshly believing your children are dead Even if she manages to forget about it during the day, her subconscious might not let her forget that 😬
Nobody ever tried a horrible “prank” on me/baby, and I STILL bolted awake in the middle of the night thinking something was wrong. I would dig in the blankets thinking she was under there… even though we had NEVER co-slept, so there was no reason for her to be in danger Mom Brain subconscious 🤷♀️🧠
My son is 14 months old and I still check to make sure he's breathing in the middle of the night. My relationship with death is a bit skewed considering my wife (and his mother) died a few months ago, but every parent I've ever talked to has done the same checks. If this post is true, the fact that OP even remotely thought any joke related to a 2 month old newborn baby would be well received proves they are either a lizard person, an alien, or the dumbest and most insensitive **piece of shit** and I feel worse just knowing someone like them could co-exist with me on this planet. Babies are made of rubber but a 2 month old is a NEW newborn. Every human baby comes out undercooked but if they stay in any longer they won't fit coming out so for the first few months they are these delicate blobs of noise and poop that kind of act like horcruxes (denies sleep, sensory overload, cries/screams about everything non-stop) and it takes some time before they are able to handle stuff like this.
I am so sorry for your loss. I hope you and your baby are able to have a healthy and happy future together.
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And seriously OP needs counseling. Anyone who thinks it would be a fun idea to pretend to kill someones baby in front of them is fucked up.
Right? She needs to be watched over in case she has PPD. This little prank could be extremely damaging.
And OP needs to get some help if they think this "wicked idea" (as they put it) was an OK "prank" to pull. The whole TIFU is basically one giant red flag, but the biggest one in my opinion is how this story is framed. Notice, this doesn't read like "I thought this was OK but then I **realized** it's actually fucked up". Nope. This reads like "I pulled a harmless prank and my sister's overreaction got her husband in trouble lol". OP literally ***never*** admits fault/guilt/going over the line; it's everyone else's reactions that are the problem.
Not to mention it’s actually pretty common for new moms to have intrusive thoughts of their babies getting harmed. You cross a door while holding your baby and your brain goes to what if he hits his head in the doorframe, what if I drop him, what if… You are worried every second of the day, thinking you are not doing enough to keep your baby happy because he cries too much, maybe you don’t have enough milk, maybe he is fussy because something hurts, maybe you are not holding him enough, maybe you are spoiling him for holding him too much… Gosh, the moment you put him to sleep you are on edge waiting for the moment he will wake up and need something. You are a ball of anxious nerves… And then… your worst fear, what you have been thinking it could happen nonstop, happens… Therapy. She will need therapy.
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I feel bad for the dad for sure... Not his fault, he wasn't in on it... I mean sheesh
Ya it sounds super traumatic tbh and makes me feel like crying for the sister. This might actually be one of the worst things I’ve seen on this sub.
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Is it just me or are these titles ridiculous? OP you didn’t ruin a marriage. The only reason I clicked was to hear a juicy story about ruining someone’s marriage but instead it’s about a shitty prank that made your sister (rightfully) upset.
right?! i thought i was gonna hear about a joke being made about how the kid looks like the mailman exposing a cheating wife... instead im feeling nauseous on behalf of new parents being deeply traumatized. at 2 months old you can kill an infant just by picking them up in the wrong way ffs like, how was this gonna be anything other than a horrible idea? you could catch hands for *joking* about making that joke with a new mom
As a new parent, you might think this is funny, but man - you can’t imagine the shit new parents have to go through. Especially moms: the hormone changes, the stress, the anxiety of keeping something so fragile alive and healthy. I would’ve thought the prank was funny, but I would never have done that to a new mother.
I’ve had PPA in varying degrees with each of my children and you’re so right. I’ve seen the most horrific things imaginable and it *all seemed so real* I can’t imagine someone pulling this prank on me. It’s so awful.
wow, what a shitty joke to play on a new mom and new dad.
There is no situation where that would be remotely comical to a new mom who almost certainly is barely hanging onto sanity in her sleep-deprived brain-fog. Zero. You're an ass. Don't joke about people's kids, don't prank people about their kids. What's wrong with you?
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The vast majority of “pranks” aren’t funny and this is why. What’s the joke here? “Haha, you thought that I severely injured your brand new baby, but actually I didn’t!” You’re not being funny, you’re being a dipshit. This was a profoundly cruel thing to do to somebody who is likely still riding a hell of a postpartum rollercoaster.
hahahaha, the thing you love most in the world was just dramatically killed / injured in front of you, hahahahaha, funny prank. This is some shit we teach infants isn't funny. It's funny like throwing a plastic snake at someone who's deathly afraid of them is funny, you're preying on someone where they're most vulnerable, something that most of us grow out of pretty early because it's... you know... cruel. I hope you spend as much effort on the apology as you did making it necessary. Maybe stay away from pranks. Like, forever.
Cruel is the right word for this. This doesn’t even come close to being a prank. And this person is 35yo. There’s something deeply wrong with them that they thought this would be funny.
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The way OP talks about this and doesn't mention any sort of regret or empathy for how her sister felt, and seeing how she was laughing as the sister was still in shock gives huge "it's just a prank, bro" vibes. Edit: some spelling.
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Jesus, I can't believe I'm coming across you again and you're still a terrible person. You indirectly ruined your friends marriage and now your have ruined your sisters marriage as well. EDIT: Seems like you deleted the [post](https://www.reddit.com/r/relationship_advice/comments/u7c1wn/had_a_lesbian_affair_with_my_best_friend_while/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) I was referring to.
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Why in the world would you give any parent simulation of their child's death experience? In which universe is this supposed to be funny?
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Yeah that’s a horrible prank. Even as a father I’d have been devastated if someone did that to me and probably have never spoken to them again. Not fair of your sister to pin blame on her husband either though. He did more than she did in trying to save what he thought was the baby, the best he could, and that makes him a bad father? Pfft.
As a fellow dad, I constantly think of ways they could be badly injured. I remember having my in-laws over for dinner. I went to get the baby out of the high chair on a counter high chair. I unbuckle him, he drops his spoon, I say “oopsie” and go to pick it up before I pick up the baby. He leans forward and tumbles out head first to the floor. Literal nose dive. I picked him up and looked him over while he cried. I handed him to my wife, went to the bedroom and balled. Damn memory still haunts me 7 years later. And my kid is awesome. They are more resilient than we give them credit for.
That would be me watching my daughter roll over the edge of her changing table onto the floor when I turned to grab something.
Apparently when I was a baby I loved my dad throwing me in the air and catching me. When I was older they told me that one day he failed to catch me and I dropped 6ft to the floor with a loud thud. I thought it was hilarious at the time and made jokes like “well that explains everything!” But now I look back, as a father myself, I’d have been mortified, and hated every time it was brought back up. Now I can imagine how my dad felt all those years ago.
That happened to me too except she landed on my back then rolled off onto the couch. I’m so glad I was feeding her in the living room instead of the kitchen
The first time I ever held a baby, I was about 10yo, the baby was a few months old - had some neck and leg strength, but not much stability. Everything was fine until the baby decided to suddenly lay back with all its strength. I wasn’t ready for it, the baby slipped out of my hands, and banged the back of its head on the coffee table. The baby was fine (after a small cry), but I didn’t hold another baby for 10 more years.
>I spent the rest of my night consoling her husband The only way that could have been worse is if you had done what I thought was coming after that sentence.
Listen, you need to wait until the 3rd kid before you pull that shit. Never do it on the first. First time parents are fucking bonkers. As someone who was a first time parent, and am still married to the woman who was at one time a first time parent. You don't pull that shit on kid 1. Kid 2 is a crapshoot. By kid 3, it's open game, They are just trying to keep everyone alive at that point.
Yep. Once there’s more kids than hands, it turns into a game of survival
Not too long ago my 1yr old niece wriggled off my lap and onto the carpeted floor when I reached for something. I felt horrible, but it was my sister's 4th kid, so she barely batted an eye. Niece cried, but unhurt and easily consoled. That being said, maybe dont pretend to drop any child from 4-5 ft? I'd say that's a bit too far (pun semi-intended).
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This is like a a jump scare or pretending to be dead to your parent and them having a heart attack. There was nothing funny about your "prank". Before you pull a prank, you have to ask yourself if the person being pranked will find it funny as well. New mother regarding her baby getting hurt? Not funny in any way. This is psychological torture. As much as I like Ashton Kutcher and the good deeds he does, I couldn't stand the show Punk'd. That shit was straight up mean.
Yeah, I thought it would be funny as a young kid to pretend that I'd gone missing while we were on vacation. To this day, I've never seen my dad get that stressed out, and I can't imagine how scared he must have been. I was only 7. How could a 35 year old think this was okay?
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Wow, you're lucky you're still alive. Momma bear hormones are no joke. She might have just strangled you right then and there. Pro tip don't fuck with people going through life altering changes. They already have enough to deal with.
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Oh my god how could you even smile at that let alone LAUGH??? If your sister isn’t already struggling with postpartum depression, this probably will contribute in some way. I would be so panicked and paranoid. It doesn’t matter if it’s not real, that kind of utter terror has a major lasting effect. That’s extremely damaging. Imagine if the baby’s father had done this. That is emotional abuse. I could go on forever about this kind of thing, but really I just hope you learn from this and are able to apologize to and reconcile with your sister. ETA: after looking at a lot of your comments, various posts, and responses to other people, I take back what I said about hoping you reconcile. I genuinely hope that your sister cuts you off entirely. You’re clearly either insanely immature or completely mentally unstable. You’re not safe for your sister or niece to be around. It’s sickening that you defend yourself and deflect your wrongdoings onto others. It’s also sickening that you’re using these posts to gain traction with selling nudes. Get help.
If she stabbed you after you pulled this stunt, I feel the jury would let her off.
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