Will Octomom’s Babies Be Taken From Her?
Posted by Sassy Smith at 3:15 PM on March 30, 2009
The octodrama just doesn’t end. After firing the Angel in Waiting nurses, who were providing the octuplets with free care, Nadya Suleman is on the defensive – but so is Gloria Allred. Allred firmly believes the babies should be removed from Suleman’s care and placed in foster homes.
On Thursday, attorney Gloria Allred took her battle to the airwaves, speaking with Ryan Seacrest on KIIS-FM. She said, “I definitely think the babies should be placed in foster care, so they can have the consistent care that they need to have, that they are not getting from their mother.”
Allred alleges that Suleman didn’t spend much time with her babies during the many hours that the AIW nurses were in the Suleman home.
Gloria said, “Of the 102 hours Angels in Waiting were in her home, Nadya only spent about eight hours in the nursery.” And the only time Nadya fed the babies, was if the cameras were rolling (with radaronline.com).
Seacrest asked how the octomom spends her time, to which Allred said, “Much of the time she’s out shopping and when she returns she rarely stops in the nursery to see the babies or ask about how they are doing.”
During the radio show, Ryan announced that someone had phoned the station to say they’d seen Suleman out – shopping for shoes. Allred exclaimed, “She should be with her children and going to the hospital visiting the other four babies. Not going shopping.”
Nadya denies all claims made by Allred and the AIW nurses. She said they were “spying” on her and she felt they were very unprofessional.
Two more of the octuplets are now home – they were brought to the Suleman home Thursday evening.
Do these children have a fighting chance with all the chaos going on at the moment? Does Nadya deserve to parent her children or should they be placed in foster care?
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The accounts are so exaggerated that it is hard to know what to believe; I wonder if a good share of the the time the AIW nurses didn’t know where Nadja was she was at the hospital with the other 6 babies. I agree the nurses were there to try to catch her out; there is absoulutely no need to have one on one nurses to care for five pound babies and the hospital agrees with this opinion; Allred says the babies couldn’t have come home without the nurses but the hospital refutes this and followed through by sending home four more babies after AIW left. I think Nadja is getting a bum rap by the press and by an economically shocked public in America