{"id":3080,"date":"2025-09-04T17:01:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=3080"},"modified":"2025-09-04T17:01:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:01:04","slug":"my-husband-skipped-our-babys-birth-he-had-more-important-plans-but-i-had-the-last-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=3080","title":{"rendered":"My Husband Skipped Our Baby\u2019s Birth\u2014He Had \u2018More Important\u2019 Plans, but I Had the Last Word"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cWhen I went into labor three weeks early, I called my husband from the hospital. His voice was calm \u2014 too calm. \u2018I can\u2019t be there right now. This meeting could change everything for us.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through the pain, I begged him to come. He said, \u2018I\u2019ll make it up to you,\u2019 and hung up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I delivered our daughter surrounded by nurses and a sympathetic doctor, but no father. 14 hours later, I sent him a photo of her tiny face. No reply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next morning, I found out where he\u2019d really been \u2014 not in a boardroom, but at a weekend getaway with a woman from his office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When he finally showed up a few days later with flowers, I handed him divorce papers instead of the baby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes the \u2018more important\u2019 plans aren\u2019t what they tell you\u2026 and sometimes the ending isn\u2019t what they expect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for the opportunity to share my story with you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen I went into labor three weeks early, I called my husband from the hospital. His voice was calm \u2014 too calm. \u2018I can\u2019t be there right&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":395,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080","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=3080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3083,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3080\/revisions\/3083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}