How does one feel when one's baby is expecting a baby?
My baby left me/home, to go live with her dad when she turned 17. I didn't stop her, although it ripped my insides out, but she needed to find herself.
Was I wrong? I don't believe so. After all, I was giving her the freedom to choose what she wanted.
She lasted four weeks there.
Then became homeless.
Was I still wrong? Should I have taken her back?
Well, no. I still don't believe so. I may have been harsh but I believe I was teaching her the difference between right and wrong. How not to take others for granted.
Call me a bad mother or any other expletives you can come up with but I stand by my decision.
Anyway, a year and a half down the line, said child is with child. She wants me to be the birthing partner. I am over the moon, ecstatically excited about this.
Why should I be after how I was treated you may ask?
Plain and simple.....she's my daughter. She's family. I love her. That's it. Nothing more.
Someone once said.."you can choose your friends but you can't choose your relatives."
I stand by that saying. As much as anyone loves their kids, they can do emotional damage to a parent, with or without the parent's knowledge. But we all unconditionally love them.
My baby is having a baby and that makes me a grandparent. So now, do I have to look after the grandchild as well as the child? Where does the caring stop and the unconditional love start?!
Laters xx
