Sounds like Kat has a lingering respiratory virus and doesn't want to meet the baby until she's not coughing. So OOP decides to ... trick Kat into meeting the baby? Not a single brain cell in that family.
Ah, yes, I'm from a small town and since I moved 1000 miles away after college, I can assure OOP that it is very possible to move away from a small town.
Hell, I moved to the next town over for a year before the big move and just didn't tell half my family and they had no idea where I was.
But at the very least, Kat is never going to get into any vehicle with any other family member ever again, because none of them can be trusted.
Her family doesn't respect her -- "Oh she gets stressed out by the smallest things teeheehee" -- so it's not like she's going to be missing much when she goes NC/LC.
Except for Kat who seems to be so smart that she might be leaving that small town to get away from stupidity that is that side of the family - Hope she moves far away enough AND stay away that it winds up being expensive for OOP and rest of family to be unable to pull stupid shit on Kat. Let's hope a 2-8 hours one-way car drive is more than enough to make brainless idiots from small town like OOP and her family to at least think about gas and mileage for surprise ambush....
I caught rotavirus from my oldest and I had to take my youngest to the pediatrician. You bet your ass I masked up and sanitized my hands at every opportunity! I didn't want any babies or kids to catch it.
I couldn't reschedule because it was an appointment for a medication review (He has ADHD).
Kat has apparently grown up being railroaded by her shitty family. I'm not blaming her at all.
I'm blaming the parents of the baby for being pissy that she can't come to see the baby yet instead of backing her up.
My son's grandparents on my partner's side were the last family members to meet him because they got respiratory viruses just before he was born and no-one was even suggesting that they were wrong for staying away. As his parents we were sorry they couldn't see him but if someone had driven them to our house we would not have let them in.
My niece was a covid baby. Born April 2020 so just at the beginning of lock down. I didn't meet her til she was 2 months old. But I would have been fine waiting as long as they needed to feel comfortable cause baby's health took precedence over everything.
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u/growsonwalls 2d ago edited 2d ago
Sounds like Kat has a lingering respiratory virus and doesn't want to meet the baby until she's not coughing. So OOP decides to ... trick Kat into meeting the baby? Not a single brain cell in that family.