Woman asks if she's wrong to call stepsister a 'bad' mother.
When someone is a bad parent, it's hard to say whether or not you should do something about it. When this woman is conflicted about her stepsister, she asks Reddit:
'AITA for calling out my step sister for her smoking?'
My step sister recently had a baby, throughout her entire pregnancy she smoked ecigs.
Her baby was born and had to go to the NICU due to poor blood sugars and feedings. I asked my step mother if they informed the doctor’s that she smoked ecigs throughout her pregnancy and drank very occasionally, as a potential cause for his issues.
It was not taken well and my entire family ganged up on me . Saying I was out of line for asking that and that IATA . I told them that they say not to smoke anything during pregnancy for a reason and that I went cold turkey the day I found out I was pregnant.
(Background EVERYONE in the family does ecigs). It can be a sore subject for most but I feel like the doctors should know. AITA?
Let's see what Reddit has to say.
alteriepse writes:
NTA. Doctors always know about cigarette smokers because people who smoke reek of it and have lost their own sense of smell, but I am not sure how much odor the ecigs have.
Fortunately the management of neonatal hypoglycemia does not depend on knowing whether the mother smoked.
About the only thing a mother would be taking in late pregnancy that would be crucial for the doctors managing neonatal hypoglycemia to know would be insulin or certain other diabetes medications.
katiedoesntsharefood writes:
YTA. What good came from this? Nothing. Mind your damn business.
burntoutopsie writes:
NTA- Important medical information that can help doctors give the child a better life trumps your step sisters feelings. Even if she cuts you off for it, this way you will have helped the child.