I Was Kicked Out of My In-Laws’ House with My Newborn – They Soon Felt the Consequences

But to me, as I tried to lull my baby to sleep upstairs, it was chaos incarnate. Their squabbles over something so small could erupt into screaming matches that rattled the walls.

And when you’ve been up for three nights straight, soothing a crying baby who keeps waking to the sound of shouting downstairs, it’s unbearable.

For a while, I did everything I could to tune them out.

I turned up the baby monitor to hear Tommy’s breathing, blasted white noise, even tried humming lullabies over the sound of their bickering.

But there are only so many times you can rock your baby back to sleep after being startled awake by voices that never seem to stop.

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