Don’t panic but I think you’re having a stroke. Is someone home with you? Can you call 911?

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The mother hatched out a plan to murder two people that involved her daughter and her daughter’s friend as accomplices and you think the jury’s still out to decide whether she’s a good mother or not? *Facepalm*

I mean it does clearly state that the murders were planned through text messages between the mother and 13 yr old daughter. Not the 18 year old bf. All it say is he “helped” we really have NO IDEA what his part in the play was at all. Its very possible he was just picked up because he was black and in a relationship…

There was a really great comment about marriage in last week’s episode of The Affair (which is appropriate or ironic, depending on who you are): “A house, it’s like a marriage, actually. You’ve got to be in it for the long haul if you ever want to see it come together.”

I had premature babies in the 3 pound range. Their apgars were like 3 and 4, if that gives you any indication of the typical stress a preemie would have. They couldn’t breathe, their color was off, muscle tone was very low..and their heads were the size of peaches. There is no way that any rational person can look at…

If it were a full-term baby, I might agree, but pre-term (by two whole months!) babies are so fragile and so many things can go wrong, that they really, really should have gone to a fucking hospital.

There’s two ways midwives are licensed - as Certified Nurse Midwives, meaning they’ve gone to nursing school and then attended an accredited Midwifery program, or as Certified Professional Midwives (the one Duggar girl recently got this certification) which basically means they’ve attended a bunch of births with…

This was not a “screw up” & I don’t see a slippery slope.

I had two preemies. It is not a reasonable reaction to a birth two months before schedule to not seek medical attention for the infant after delivery. Nothing about a three pound baby looks fine to stay home and hope for the best - this is not an observation that requires a medical degree, just fucking common sense.…

That would be my guess as well, and these lay midwives are very dangerous. My niece went the whole lay midwife route twice. the first time she ended up with a hospital delivery and in ICU because of severe kidney infection the midwife missed. The second time, she hemorrhaged so badly after the birth, she nearly died.…

But we’re not taking a full-term 8lb baby. It doesn’t take a genius to know that if you deliver a baby that small and that premature, it’s likely to have serious medical problems.

Charge the everloving fuck out of that midwife.

Many years ago, my baby sister was born two months early. Despite receiving the best medical treatment available at the time, she didn’t make it. Since then, there have been so many developments in the treatment of premature labor and premies.
Every time I read about some new treatment or improvement to an old one, I…

No. Fuck these guys. It’s one thing if a mother has a premie and freaks out and doesn’t go to the hospital (but it’s probably still a crime, I was panicked isn’t a get out of jail free card). It’s quite another if a couple has a “religious” conviction that demands they sacrifice their child rather than seek safe and…

I doubt this woman is a licensed and trained midwife. She is probably just someone from the church who attends births. Regardless, if you are in labor 2 months early, YOU GO TO THE HOSPITAL. That’s not really the same thing to me as a parent whose child maybe has a fever and they don’t realize how serious it is. No…

Ok, we could say that the mother herself would’ve been in a bad spot. But she was with her husband, and at her parents’ house. And not one of the others did the reasonable thing, either.

Yeah but I think reasonable people would take a premature baby to the hospital right away. I think reasonable midwives would recommend taking premature babies to the hospital right away.

I think I’d agree with you if they were making a similar argument in their defense, but they’re not; there was nothing to impede them from acting like reasonable adults with a responsibility for the health and safety of their child, except for their lack of common sense. That’s not a legally valid excuse for letting…