Octuplets: Hospital questioning her ability to care for octuplets

February 25, 2009

I got this video from the LA Times site. In it is a small snippet from the grandfather’s interview on Oprah.

OPRAH to the grandfather about his daughter’s mental state: “It seems a little unstable.”

DOUD: I-I-I have to agree with you because, uh, I’m not psychiatrist, but, I questioned her-her-her-her-her, mental, uh, situation.

I beg people not to punish someone who is mentally, uh, not complete

Then he went on to ask Oprah for help getting his daughter a psychiatric evaluation.

He just stated that his daughter is mentally not complete -> if you are mentally incomplete you are mentally incompetent -> if you are mentally incompetent you should not be anywhere near children = no octuplets.

They need to keep doing more interviews. The grandmother and the mother were fighting on video on radaronline. Nadya has already taped two shows with Dr Phil - the first set to air today. Yesterday she called Dr Phil after the hospital called her warning her that she has to prove she is capable of caring for them.

He didn’t have mention any specifics when he spoke with the LA Times’ JESSICA GARRISON & KIMI YOSHINO:

MCGRAW: 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. I haven’t talked to the hospital. I haven’t talked to the caseworkers.

I don’t think she has the money, the space, the transportation, the supplies, the manpower, I don’t think she has any of that in place at this point.

What I have said from the beginning when I first addressed this story is that you can be upset with this mother . . . [but] you can’t turn your back on the mother without turning your back on 14 innocent children. They didn’t ask for this.

And they shouldn’t have to suffer because of it. Neither the mother or the siblings are attached to the octuplets. Let them be adopted to parents who have the wherewithal to care for them in all and every way. No one knows how disabled they are going to be. The older ones reportedly were full term and 3/6 have neurological disabilities.

JIM ANDERSON, director of media relations for Kaiser Permanente Southern California:

Any conversations that the mother may or may not have had on this topic are private and we could not discuss them. In general, mothers with multiple births who have babies in the neonatal intensive care unit are given advice and counsel about what they need to have in place to care for the children when they are discharged. There is a multidisciplinary team that works with them in advance to offer advice and support.

VICKI BERMUDEZ, a regulatory policy specialist with California Nurses Assn. and a neonatal intensive care unit nurse at the Kaiser hospital in Roseville.

In all cases involving very premature babies, social workers are assigned to evaluate parents and to determine what services to which the children and family may be entitled. If they feel there’s a risk to a baby, they contact Child Protective Services and Child Protective Services would make a determination as to whether or not there’s a reason for concern. The agency could place a protective hold on a baby while determining whether the home environment is safe. The children also can be placed in temporary foster care.

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