Helping friends start families can feel like a beautiful act, but it can also create complications no one expects.

One young woman donated her eggs believing she’d still be welcomed as the “cool aunt” in the child’s life.

But when the parents grew threatened by her status as the biological mother, they kept her at a distance for two years, then out of the blue asked for free babysitting.

The resulting conversation was as confusing as it was dramatic.

You’ll want to read on for the full story.

AITA for asking for saying it’s ‘babysitting’ even if the baby is biologically mine

I (22f) donated my eggs 3 years ago to my friends V and M (30m and 32m) since they wanted to have a baby.

I wasn’t the surrogate but just the egg donor.

They all had grand plans of how cool this arrangement would be.

Back then they used to say how I’d be the coolest godmother/aunt to the baby and we’d be a big happy family, etc.

Fast forward to when the baby was born, I only found out through social media posts.

Soon, the reality became much different than any of them anticipated.

When I congratulated them, they hesitantly said that since I’m the biological mother of the baby, my meeting him might hamper their bonding as parental figures and so they didn’t want me to meet him till he’s at least 2 years old.

Well, their kid and their call, so I never questioned it or argued it.

So when she does come around the baby, things are awkward.

Last week was the baby’s 2nd birthday and they invited me to the party.

I’m good with kids. It’s easy — just pretend to enjoy whatever game they’re playing and laugh along.

They noticed him getting along with me too much and requested that I keep some distance from him.

I was weirded out but complied.

Then her friends did another complete 180.

Yesterday they texted me that V had some family emergency and needed me to take the baby for 2 days.

I agreed but texted them babysitting rates.

She decided she wasn’t going to shell out any more goodwill for free.

As a friend I would’ve agreed, but since they never let me interact with the baby and acted weird, I said I would charge them.

Her “friends” didn’t like this one bit.

Now M is all over the internet ranting about how it’s called “parenting” and not babysitting when it’s your own baby, etc., etc.

So AITA for babysitting a child who’s supposed to be biologically mine?!

This situation is awkward in so many ways.

What did Reddit make of this?

This user thinks the woman’s friends really need to get back in touch with reality.

If it were up to this user, they’d say this.

Real friends don’t behave this way.

This commenter has whiplash just from reading this story!

It’s funny how her friends were suddenly willing to bend the rules the minute it benefitted them.

She respected their wishes at every turn, but respect clearly wasn’t a two-way street.

If you thought that was an interesting story, check out what happened when a family gave their in-laws a free place to stay in exchange for babysitting, but things changed when they don’t hold up their end of the bargain.