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Dear Care and Feeding,

A couple weeks ago, I saw a video on YouTube of a wife who decided to test how vigilant her husband was while out with their very young baby by secretly following him. She managed to not only “kidnap” her baby from his carriage while her husband played on his phone, but the husband only learned of it when she confronted him with the baby in her arms. My husband, “Eric” and I have a son who is a little over three months old, and the video inspired me to try the same thing with him. I thought he would never allow such a thing to happen. I was wrong.

Unbeknownst to my husband, I followed him to the park with a friend in her car where he was pushing ou

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