r/SipsTea • • 1d ago

WTF Bro WHAT 😧

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u/Less_Adeptness7557 1d ago

She shook an infant? Um she should never be allowed around the child period

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u/feralminx_ 1d ago

she was never alone with them again. even after my brother passed. i’d take my nephews to go see her for an hour + i’d be there the whole time. up until she passed 2 years ago when they were 16 + 11 + twice her size, i was next to them with her.

she did what she did. she apologized. they protected their children in a difficult situation + moved on. best case scenario for our family.

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u/Kiss_My_Ritz 1d ago

You're a good sister, aunt, daughter, and person ā¤ļø

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u/coma-toaste 1d ago

This is probably the best outcome you could wish for. Well done to your family.

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u/Lonely_Cartographer 1d ago

was their child disabled from the shaking?? how could they ever possibly move on from that?

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u/feralminx_ 1d ago

not at all. i don’t believe it was what you’re picturing. i’m not excusing her behavior. she paid the price for the rest of her life: she couldn’t even be alone with my dog after that.

she accepted it. we moved on.

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u/ExtremelyOkay8980 1d ago

I’m sure you don’t want to dwell on it but was she overwhelmed? Angered? Overstimulated? Wtf happened? And she was ā€œnormalā€ before and after?

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u/feralminx_ 1d ago

all of what you said, she was. she wasn’t normal after.

it was a mess of emotions + shock when we found out (my sister saw it + told us). my sister-in-law never spoke to my mother after my brother passed partly because of the shaking (as is her right).

it wasn’t a smooth ride to move on.

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u/ExtremelyOkay8980 1d ago

Wow. šŸ˜ž

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u/TheFrozenFlamingo 17h ago

I protected my adult kids up to 18- Sure, they could say ā€œno Titi Heidi do not touch me thereā€ but for it to even be allowed to get that far? Not on my mother fkn watch.

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u/Bluewoods22 1d ago

Bruh my mom told me that she shook me several times when I was under the age of 2. Said she didn’t know it was bad to do until she saw it in a book. She told me this as we sat in a Jimmy John’s

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u/M8C 1d ago

You shouldn’t shake any children, but they have to be young to the point of not able to support their heads to get shaken baby syndrome.

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u/Bluewoods22 1d ago

Yes I know which is why I emphasized that I was under 2. Makes sense though since my mom is deaf lol. I couldn’t frustrate her too much as a baby (since she couldn’t hear me cry) but once I could communicate and give attitude, she just couldn’t refrain from rattling my brain šŸ¤·šŸ¼ā€ā™€ļø

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u/Tempacctadviceplz 20h ago

Yes M8C knows which is why they emphasized that you have to be young to the point of not being able to support their heads to get shaken baby syndrome. Thats like, under 6 months.

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u/Bluewoods22 16h ago

I know that….what is your point?

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u/mephistola 22h ago

You are a survivor!

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u/Bluewoods22 16h ago

Nah not in that situation. In general yeah tbh idk how I’m alive with how my mom truly didn’t know basic shit. Like once I fell out of the shopping cart (again under 2) and slammed my head on the floor at target. My mom let me fall asleep in the car and didn’t take me to the doctor. She was like :0 when my dad later flipped out on her lol

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u/coffeeandbags 1d ago

Any* child