Basically, I agreed to have this girl (age 4) if her mum went into labour - the deal was that I would have her until this woman's mother had arrived (around a 3 hr drive apparently) and she would pick her up from me.
She was dropped off yesterday at 8am. I took her to pre-school and dropped my kids off at school. At 11am, I picked her up - no sign of granny yet but I thought traffic and all that. Come 3pm, no call from anyone, still no sign. At 5pm, the parents ring and say that she is still not in established labour and they haven't called the granny. I tell them that they need to call her now as the little girl thinks she is going with granny. They said they would.
7pm comes and goes and I put her to bed with the others. She's very upset and I try and put a good light on how exciting it is to sleepover but all she can say is 'where is granny'. I phone the hospital at 8pm (thinking there may have been some problem) - she's still only 3cm and they think granny will only get there at 10pm.
I say no matter what time she arrives, I think their girl isn't going to settle and granny can come here anytime she wants.
Roll forward - she was up every hour on the hour in tears and eventually got into bed with my dd for comfort. I tried everything but she couldn't understand why she had been left so long.
8am - I get a call, baby was born at 10.30pm last night but they thought that was too late to send granny or husband round here so they went home . I dropped her off at school and they are picking her up later.
I am very pissed off with them for her sake - just can't understand (as they are quite neurotic parents) why they kept changing their plans. I think it is largely because the dh has no backbone and cannot make decisions without his wife who he wouldn't bother because she was in labour.
Shall I keep my mouth shut and just leave it or should i mention to the dh that I thought they should have picked her up?