Familial relationship dynamics can be hard to navigate — that’s why Reddit exists. A father took to the online platform to ask fellow users if he and his wife were wrong for not leaving their two-week vacation in Mexico early when his daughter gave birth back in the States.
More from LittleThings: Days After Teen Daughter Dies In Car Accident Mom Finds Message She Wrote On Mirrored Door
He explained that they had planned this trip before his daughter was pregnant.
He wrote that he, male, 52, and his wife “were on a two week vacation in Cancun Mexico. We’re from the US and planned all year for this trip, and saved up money to be able to go on this trip.” He later edited the post to add that the trip was “booked and paid before my daughter was pregnant.”
Their daughter was not due for a few more weeks.
They were on the sixth day of their vacation when their daughter’s boyfriend “called us saying she was giving birth and we had to get on the next plane ride home. We were aware my daughter was soon to pop, but her due date wasn’t until the end of this month, mind you these events took place in the beginning of this month. We told him that was impossible, and just to follow their birthing plan and to keep us updated.”
Their daughter, a first-time mom, asked when they’d be coming home.
“A few hours later we got a call from my daughter updating us then asking when we’d be on our way back and that she really wanted us to be here and that it was taken longer then expected, she was scared, etc.," the original poster (OP) continued. "She’s a first time mom so it was expected for her to be scared. My wife and I assured her everything would be fine, but we were unable to just pack up and go. She got upset and hung up on me.”
The daughter ended up having an emergency C-section due to complications.
“Hours later in the middle of the night we missed a call due to us sleeping and it was her boyfriend saying there was complications and they were performing emergency c section," OP explained. "The next morning we called immediately and our daughter told us she was scared and things could’ve went bad and our Cancun trip was more important to us then her, then hung up. We tried to call back but she wouldn’t answer.”
The baby and daughter are OK, but now she’s ignoring her parents' calls.
“The baby was born healthy and our daughter is okay. We have only seen pictures of our grandchild through Facebook because our daughter hasn’t let us see her and has barely spoke to us since we’ve been back home. We had planned to be there for our grandchild’s birth, but we couldn’t leave 6 days into a trip we spent a large amount of money on. Even if we did we wouldn’t make it back on time. Even if we did make it back we couldn’t do anything the doctors couldn’t in the situation. I feel as though our daughter is being too harsh to us,” he wrote. “We have apologized many of times.”
The overall consensus from Reddit: There was nothing mom and dad would have been able to do.
One user, who said the grandparents weren’t to blame in the situation, wrote, “you can't just rush home from another country, and if you had, same day tickets would have been astronomical.”
They added, “I take it your daughter is mad, but it was a no win situation. You planned the trip way ahead, and you could not just rush home because traveling from another country doesn't work that way.”
These stories are based on posts found on Reddit. Reddit is a user-generated social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website where registered members submit content to the site and can up- or down-vote the content. The accuracy and authenticity of each story cannot be confirmed by our staff.
