Community› The Bump Month Clubs› July 2014 Moms
July 2014 Moms
New Discussion

05/23 Flame Free Confession Friday

13»

Re: 05/23 Flame Free Confession Friday

  • hgtvmomhgtvmom member
    MonkeyJD said:

    eadams08 said:

    Baby currently in the NICU with Alex is named Ratonieoneya (Ra-ton-ee-on-ee-ah). The nurses actually get really happy when babies have names they can pronounce. 


    Confession: I side-eye the hell out of the teen mom that comes to visit her baby every other day to bring breast milk, and only stays for MAYBE 20 minutes. Same story for another baby, but parents are older and come less often (stay just as long though) and that baby is 3 months old. I feel so sorry for some of these children.
    ********************

    When I'm doing my weekly shift as a rocker I totally side-eye those parents and so do the nurses. I hate when I come in and the nurses keep pointing me to the same babies who need to be held because mom/dad are never there.
    -----------------
    This! So this! I used to volunteer at a children's hospital. I hung out with a lot of basically abandoned kids. They were where my heart was. Some were in foster care because their parents had actually abandoned them when they got sick and some had parents who looked at hospital time as "free" baby sitting.

    Those kids are 1000% why I want to foster or foster to adopt kids with chronic health conditions. But, we need to be in a financial position that I can stay home/be accessible to them all the time.
    Report Reply
  • Loading the player...
  • hgtvmomhgtvmom member
    edited May 2014
    Lori_n_Lior said:


    bunny0711 said:


    MonkeyJD said:

    eadams08 said:

    Baby currently in the NICU with Alex is named Ratonieoneya (Ra-ton-ee-on-ee-ah). The nurses actually get really happy when babies have names they can pronounce. 


    Confession: I side-eye the hell out of the teen mom that comes to visit her baby every other day to bring breast milk, and only stays for MAYBE 20 minutes. Same story for another baby, but parents are older and come less often (stay just as long though) and that baby is 3 months old. I feel so sorry for some of these children.
    ********************

    When I'm doing my weekly shift as a rocker I totally side-eye those parents and so do the nurses. I hate when I come in and the nurses keep pointing me to the same babies who need to be held because mom/dad are never there.

    WTF else are these parents doing? They would have to kick me out each day. 

    I think this is kind of harsh. You don't know peoples circumstances.

    My brother and SIL had two preemies.  My brother only got to see his daughter for a few minutes on his way home from work every day because he had to keep his job to have insurance for what they affectionately call their "million dollar baby" and then drive another hour home in time to say good night to his 3 year old son. His wife had to rely on sitters and people driving her to the hospital since she wasn't cleared to drive for a few weeks after delivery. Their LO was born at 26 weeks and had to be in a NICU over an hour from their home.

    Not saying everyone has an excuse or circumstances, but I am sure I a lot of people do and my brother and SIL didn't even have the worst of circumstances, just normal run of the mill life stuff.


    ----------
    I get this too - I worked with some of these kids too. But those aren't the parents I'm judging (personally). It's the ones who decide that this is "too hard" or just don't care enough to be with their scared, sick child that I side eye.

    It simply blew my mind how many kids got sick and then ended up in foster care, then had foster parents who couldn't be bothered either.

    Report Reply
  • jensaviccijensavicci member
    Matthew930 said:

    After avoiding the random thread for over 5500 comments, I actually really like it.

    Seeeeee! We're not so bad ;)
    Report Reply
This discussion has been closed.
Choose Another Board
Search Boards
"
"