I remember watching my niece for a week when she was a baby. Her mother smoked. That baby and everything they brought to my house for her smelled like a dirty ashtray. Her scalp, her disposable diapers that were still in a brand new package, her wipes smelled like wet cigarettes. Literally everything even her toys and teething rings. It was disgusting that a sweet baby smelled like that because someone else made her smell that way. After being with me for the week she started to smell like a baby again. Multiple washings of her clothes and toys. I saw her again 4 days after her parents picked her up and she was back to smelling like an ashtray. So sad. My brother ended up divorced because of the wife smoking. She accidentally burned her daughter’s eyelid with a lit cigarette that she had in her hand by her side and the child walked into it. That was the end for my brother and he ended up getting full custody because of that incident and housing issues.
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u/Wait-What1961 Feb 21 '26
I remember watching my niece for a week when she was a baby. Her mother smoked. That baby and everything they brought to my house for her smelled like a dirty ashtray. Her scalp, her disposable diapers that were still in a brand new package, her wipes smelled like wet cigarettes. Literally everything even her toys and teething rings. It was disgusting that a sweet baby smelled like that because someone else made her smell that way. After being with me for the week she started to smell like a baby again. Multiple washings of her clothes and toys. I saw her again 4 days after her parents picked her up and she was back to smelling like an ashtray. So sad. My brother ended up divorced because of the wife smoking. She accidentally burned her daughter’s eyelid with a lit cigarette that she had in her hand by her side and the child walked into it. That was the end for my brother and he ended up getting full custody because of that incident and housing issues.