It’s great for parents when grandparents can help out by babysitting, but it’s not always possible for grandparents to babysit.

In today’s story, a grandmother thinks her daughter is mad at her because she said “no” about babysitting.

Let’s see how the story plays out…

AITAH for telling my daughter my husband won’t watch her kids when she had a medical “emergency”

My daughter (29 F) had her third baby a couple months ago, and everything seemed fine.

But a couple weeks ago she called me (54f) and she was crying.

I asked her what was wrong and she said she had to go back to the hospital she gave birth at because she was having 9/10 pain in her uterus.

I asked if it could be her birth control and she said she wasn’t sure but that she called her OB and they wanted her to be seen at the hospital.

OP told her daughter “no.”

She asked if my husband (53M) was available to watch the kids so her husband could take her since my husband is currently unemployed.

I told her I didn’t know what her dad was up to but that there was no way he was taking 3 kids, it just wasn’t happening.

She went quiet for a bit and I suggested they take all the kids (4M,2M, newborn) and she just go in and they wait for her in the car while she gets checked.

She then said “never mind I’ll just figure it out” and hung up.

Her daughter found someone else to watch the kids.

I tried calling back but she ignored my call.

Apparently she found a neighbor to watch her older two sons and they took the baby with them.

They checked her out and turns out she had 3 cysts on her ovaries, one on her left and two on her right and that’s what was causing her pain.

OP thinks her daughter is mad at her.

I told her I was glad she found out what was wrong.

She just gave a short “yeah me too” and hasn’t really been talking to us much since.

I think she’s upset I told her no on my husband’s behalf, but watching 3 kids is too much on him and I don’t feel she’s entitled for us to watch all 3 of her kids on such short notice.

So AITAH?

The daughter probably is annoyed that her parents didn’t jump in to help, but at least she found someone to babysit.

Let’s see how Reddit responded to this story…

This reader thinks the mom should’ve said “yes” to babysitting.

Here’s a sarcastic response…

This reader wonders why the dad didn’t answer for himself.

Another reader doesn’t understand why the grandfather couldn’t babysit.

With parents like these…

If you enjoyed that story, read this one about a mom who was forced to bring her three kids with her to apply for government benefits, but ended up getting the job of her dreams.