{"id":278,"date":"2025-08-22T15:46:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T15:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=278"},"modified":"2025-08-22T15:46:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T15:46:05","slug":"my-husband-skipped-our-babys-birth-he-had-more-important-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"My Husband Skipped Our Baby\u2019s Birth \u2014 He Had &#8220;More Important&#8221; Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was pregnant with my 1st child, my husband has 3. The day my water broke, he didn\u2019t come to the hospital. He texted,<br>&#8220;It\u2019s my son\u2019s first football game. I promised I\u2019d be there. Our newborn won\u2019t recall this day anyway.&#8221;<br>I said don\u2019t come home. He didn\u2019t show up for 3 days. Worried, I went to his ex\u2019s house, she looked flustered. I froze when I found out my husband had been staying there in the guest room because he felt offended when I asked him not to come home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was furious, and to make it worse, she turned to me and said, &#8220;Well, your husband already has three kids, so this fourth one isn\u2019t as special to him as it is to you.&#8221; Then she added, &#8220;His first family will always be more important, and that\u2019s just how life is.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I couldn\u2019t say a word and left. After seeing my husband\u2019s indifference and hearing his ex\u2019s words, I\u2019m seriously considering divorce.<br>Today, 4 days after the birth, he finally came to meet his daughter. While I know he can be a great and devoted dad, his attitude has shocked me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What should I do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was pregnant with my 1st child, my husband has 3. The day my water broke, he didn\u2019t come to the hospital. He texted,&#8220;It\u2019s my son\u2019s first&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":593,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}