Octomom worries hospital will not release babies to her
Nadya Suleman, the California octuplets mom, has told television therapist Dr. Phil McGraw that she fears not being allowed to take her newborns home from the hospital until she proves that she has the means to care for them, according to news reports. Suleman, 33, is the jobless, single mother already living in her mother’s three-bedroom house with six young children when she gave birth last month to octuplets conceived through in vitro fertilization. She has said that the her family relies on food stamps and disability benefits for three of her older kids, one of whom is autistic. According to the report from Reuters:
McGraw said Suleman called him on Tuesday afternoon, upset after she had spoken with officials at the suburban Los Angeles Kaiser Permanente Medical Centre where the octuplets, born 9-1/2 weeks premature, remain in a neonatal care unit.
“What she is telling me is that unless and until she has a better living arrangement, that they are not likely to release the children to her.” He added that according to Suleman, hospital authorities had some concerns about her “ability to care for the children,” but he did not have details about those concerns or what standards she might not be meeting, the Times reported.
Kaiser Permanente officials declined to comment on Suleman’s case.
Well, isn’t this the first bit of sanity we’ve heard since this baby drama began? I hope the social workers take good hard look at whether Suleman will be able to take care of 14 little children.
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If the babies do not go home with Nadya but are placed in foster care and then not placed with permanent families if there is a lengthy court battle, these babies may not be able to attach to any one specific caregiver. Attachment disorders can be lifelong struggles not to mention the trauma related to eight biological siblings potentially not being raised together.
I hope the hospital does NOT allow the babies to go home with her. For the mother to engineer this whole caper was insane and the hospital is the voice of reason at this point. The mother needs psychiatric treatment. Her 70+ year old parents are in no position to have a tribe of babies dumped on them, they’re in foreclosure, and the grandmother has openly criticized her daughter’s actions with the IVF procedures resulting in 14 children.
Hopefully there are many couples who cannot conceive who would be
happy to have a newborn. Many people have to adopt from foreign countries to be able to adopt an infant. So sad, but I can’t imagine that the Mom
would ever be able to take care of so many and the children need to
come first and be in a stable, loving environment.
Does it really matter who these babies go home with? These babies will suffer attachment disorded and this may well be the least of their mounting disorders.If we are truely looking out for the best intrest of these babies we would place them separately in two parent loving familys with the means to support them individually, financially and emotionally. This may not seem fair to the mother but I have yet to wittnes this mother putting her childrens need above her own,oh and so I don’t get blasted by loving financially able singel parent homes I include you in those fit to care for these babies.
This mother needs a shrink and it is not Dr Phill for crying out loud!
I don’t see how the hospital can stop it. That is crazy. While 14 kids are a lot. There are 3 adults in that house. I can’t imagine those kids would be better off in social workers hands. State care is no answer for those young babies.
What I’d like to know is why she’s spending time at the Dr. Phil Show, when she has 8 babies in the hospital.
Look likes everybody loves seeing a train wreck in the making.To sad that this women is using her babies as pawns to get her “15 minutes of fame”
This gal is TALENTED…. she just flutters her eyes and pouts those FAKE lips, dabbs a tear or two and she can get anything she wants and knows it…. she wants some bleeding heart sap to GIVE her a big ol’ house to raise he precious babies in……… I cant believe they would allow this women to EVER take those babies home…I dont see one sign she loves and cares about the kid she already has much less the 8 added to the pack…. All the money she makes in welfare and disability hasnt gone to her family at all but instead to her fertility treatments…. she didnt make the house payments, pay her bills or buy food for the kids, instead she STOLE it from her kids and used it to crank out MORE babies.. all because she craves attention and pity!!!!
Ok, a couple of things. First of all, to all the people who says she has done this so she can get more welfare, I can’t believe that’s true. Generally the welfare people receive is not even enough to meet basic needs, much less allow for leftovers to be frittered away as people seem to be suggesting this Mom would do. For the record, I think this woman is nuts and has no business having these children and I hope the hospital does not send them home with her. What I’m waiting for is all the pro-birth people to step forward and volunteer to either adopt these babies or help this woman create a financially and emotionally stable home for all of her kids. Prove to me you’re actually pro-life. This Mom said she had the remaining embryos implanted because they were “alive”. Now that they are actually here, put your money where your mouth is!