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Husband left his friends who I don’t know alone in our house with our 6 month old

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28loloie · 26/01/2026 14:52

So I’m not sure if I’m over reacting.

DD is 6 months old, I haven’t left her alone with anyone properly yet, I’ve left her with DH while I go a walk but the longest I’ve been away from her until yesterday was maybe an hour.

Yesterday I went to brunch without DD for a few hours, it was my friends birthday and I really wanted to go. DH said he would have DD and invited a few of his friends who I don’t know super well (they live in the city so we don’t meet them often) to keep him company.

I got back yesterday afternoon, his friends were still there. I asked how everything had gone and DH told me he had to nip out for an hour as his little sister needed dropped to A&E, so he left DD with his friends. Apparently she was fine. 1 of his friends is female, 2 were male. He reckons he was gone for just over an hour and his friends said that they gave her a bottle but other than that she was happy just getting cuddled.

We have never left DD with someone who wasn’t me or DH before. I always figured our parents would be the first people we left DD with. I don’t know these friends and while I’m sure it was fine, I can’t feel certain that they are good people. DH thinks I’m over reacting, she was perfectly safe. I feel he made a unilateral decision which could have been easily avoided if he just took DD with him.

AIBU to feel he shouldn’t have done this.

OP posts:
gototogo · 26/01/2026 15:00

They were friends of his and obviously competent. He’s her father and he thought it was fine. Seems perfectly reasonable solution

NerrSnerr · 26/01/2026 14:59

Heronwatcher · 26/01/2026 14:58

No YANBU. They could have been anyone. Who knows whether they might have fed the baby the wrong thing, put them to sleep on a sofa, not noticed that a nappy needed changing. Would they have known what to do if the baby started screaming, was sick, or worse injured herself. I’m not even going down the road of child abuse or shaken babies here for it to be pretty bad.

He should have taken the baby to A&E with him, asked his sister to take a taxi or at worst called you and dropped baby at the brunch on his way (not ideal but I’d have preferred this to leaving her with three total strangers).

They weren’t strangers to the baby’s dad though.

dairydebris · 26/01/2026 14:59

His little sister needed to be taken to A and E? Your baby is fine? He presumably knows and trusts his friends? What do you think he should have done instead?

Heronwatcher · 26/01/2026 14:58

No YANBU. They could have been anyone. Who knows whether they might have fed the baby the wrong thing, put them to sleep on a sofa, not noticed that a nappy needed changing. Would they have known what to do if the baby started screaming, was sick, or worse injured herself. I’m not even going down the road of child abuse or shaken babies here for it to be pretty bad.

He should have taken the baby to A&E with him, asked his sister to take a taxi or at worst called you and dropped baby at the brunch on his way (not ideal but I’d have preferred this to leaving her with three total strangers).

28loloie · 26/01/2026 14:58

GasperyJacquesRoberts · 26/01/2026 14:55

Why did his sister need to go to A&E?

She fell off her bike, she’s broken her arm and collar bone.

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NerrSnerr · 26/01/2026 14:57

You’ve said you don’t know them well but assuming he knows them well. Why would you think that your husband isn’t friends with good people?

Surprised he didn’t call you though.

GasperyJacquesRoberts · 26/01/2026 14:55

Why did his sister need to go to A&E?