I'll risk sticking my head up again
Years ago my parents had me,then my brother
My mother,not knowing she'd have more than one baby (3 stillbirths then me and was told she'd never have one baby let alone 2 at this point) had got rid of all my baby equipment
So when she 'caught' on with my brother,she re-bought everything
Just after my brother had grown out of everything,my aunt fell pregnant with twins
She asked my mother if she could borrow my brothers stuff-the idea being,she'd buy another set but it would save her money in only having to buy one set of everything,rather than two-but would give it all back,once finished with,so my mother could either have another baby (which seemed unlikely at the time) or sell it herself to re-coup some of the cost
Her then boyfriend and the waste of space,pisshead of a father beat her up and pushed her down the stairs
She ended up giving birth to very prem twins-it really was touch and go if one would survive,let alone both-they where the size of barbie dolls at birth
Very sadly,twin 1 died at 4 days-twin 2 went from strength to strength and made it (now a married mum herself)
Aunt hadn't got round to buying most of the second stuff she needed as it she was about 7 months and my family seem to believe its unlucky to buy things in early,so just used my brothers stuff
My mother then fell with surprise twins herself (my younger brothers) and asked aunt for my other brothers stuff back as the same idea being she would only have to buy one lot of baby stuff herself
Aunt then shamefully told her she'd sold the lot-not a blanket left as 'you where told you'd never have one baby,let alone 4!'
The only reason my mother still speaks to her is the loss of twin 1 and the fact my aunt was a skint single mum at the time but almost 35 years on,she's still fuming