I Was Born To Replace Her

From the moment she is conceived, a baby becomes aware of the world outside her mother. Her parents are happy, but her older sister Hannah, her father's daughter from his first marriage, is not. Hannah screams that they must choose between her and the new baby, and her jealousy escalates until she pours concentrated weed killer into her stepmother's prenatal herbal teas. When her father learns of it, he hits her for the first time.

After the baby is brought home, Hannah creeps to the bassinet and whispers that there is only room for one of them. She squeezes the infant's neck, then sobs an apology as her father throws her across the room. Relatives who came to help with the baby condemn her, and her grandfather says they should have let her go with her gambling mother.

The baby, who understands everything, stretches out her hands and tries to smile at the sister who wants her gone.