Octuplets' Mom Turns Down Offer of Home & Nursing Care

by Mary Richard | February 27, 2009 at 08:43 pm
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LOS ANGELES - Attorney Gloria Allred was on CBS' The Early Show this morning and said that Nadya Suleman has turned down the offer presented to her last week by Angels in Waiting for around the clock pediatric care of her 14 children.

"She did not accept our offer," Gloria Allred told co-anchor Harry Smith on The Early Show Friday. " ... There would have been no burden on the taxpayers. Instead now, it may be that the taxpayers are going to have to foot the bill for all of this."
Allred, who has filed a complaint with the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, had asked Suleman to respond by Thursday at midnight

After several phone conversations with Suleman, Allred and Angels In Waiting had a meeting set up with her for last Monday, but Suleman never showed.

They say Suleman seemed more interested in capitalizing on her infants than caring for them -- by asking to do a reality show -- and hold press conferences every two weeks updating the babies' conditions.

"I told her a reality show is a definite no," said Linda West-Conforti, Angels In Waiting. "I educated Nadya that we would have a total of 28 people a day in our home and that her preemies are an open Petri dish due to their low immune system."

The Octomom Nadya Suleman has been in the media spotlight all week, with the ex-boyfriend Denis Beaudoin going on national TV on Monday demanding a paternity test. 

Tuesday her father spoke out on Oprah, at on point questioning his daughter's mental stateRadarOnline had an exclusive interview this week with Nadya and her mother, in which they face off, and her mother calls her "obsessive compulsive." 

Entertainment Tonight and The Insider had exclusives this week, and Dr. Phil devoted Wednesday and Thursday to her, as she told him of her fears that the hospital may not release her babies until she can prove that she can properly care for them.

Hospital officials at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center said Thursday the infants were doing well.  "All eight of the babies are gaining weight and continue being fed donated pasteurized breast milk.  The introduction of nipple (bottle) feeding is beginning slowly," according to a hospital statement.

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Rachel Nixon

This is quite the saga!

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Mary Richard

Saga is right!  You can't make this kinda stuff up!  Only thing is... there's real little lives involved.

"You can't point to a TV show right now that has a better plot than Octomom, " said Janice Min, editor in chief of Us Weekly.  "We have someone who is living her own national reality show for the cameras. ... The story has every element that scripted TV would die for. Dysfunctional family, public feuding with the mother ... the plastic surgery, the Angelina Jolie comparisons. ... Now there's a baby-daddy mystery."

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Amy Judd

that is ridiculous - she doesn't know what is good for her.

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Esther1933

Nadya’s fantasy expectations are not the criteria she must meet. She has way too much fruit in her loop! With all the public outrage and her parent’s statements re Nadya’s state of mind, it is doubtfull wayward and self-willed Nadya will get her way after rejecting the only workable offer given her. Right now, no amount of money donated to her through Dr. Phil will change the enevitable from occuring. Not all about money!! More about safe care and 14 lives at stake. Not about Nady’s whims and whimsical drifty persona. About Octopus Mom needing  more arms, legs and money!! Nadya’s birthing pattern was no coincidence and law of averages hasn’t been repealed. Nadya persisted in defying odds. Kept right on keeping on; implanting 6 fertilized embroys over and over. All her prior six kids were under six years when injected with last six that bore octups. Set of twins from next to last six injection were just over one year old. Sooner or later the law of averages wins out. It caught up with Nadya. The definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again; never expecting different results. What a farce Dr. Phil’s interview turned out to be. Besides being a ratings whore, Dr. Phil is a pompous ass. We haven’t heard he is dishing out any money to Nadya. It’s his gig. Why not? Isn’t he to set an example first? Like with his Britney Spears rescue, he is Johnny-on-the-spot to dig his heels into whatever smut will bring him viewers. His interview with Nadya was phoney. As well, so was Nadya. Dr. Phil's anger managment is not under control. He needs to look at "The Man In The Mirror." Put his own life and marriage in check. Not sure Nadya is ready for any type of reality check yet!  She is asleep in the deep and Angels in Waiting needs to care for the micor-preemies not Nadya. They need professional care not an array of neophites who want to be caregivers and have no experiance with preemies who can have a number of developmental issues and needs that far surpass neophites and Nadya’s ability. Six kids and fourteen new babies under one roof that is in pre-forclosure" Not ideal. A more peacefull, secure, safe and stable enviro is a must. Those preemies should not be released to Octo-Mom. My bet is that those in charge of making the decision as to when and where these children go — will NOT release them to Nadya. Dumber than dumb for Nadya to reject the only workable and acceptable option she had. She now is in deep doo-doo!! As Atty. Allred said, If she refuses the offer she could have her children taken away. Thanks to authority’s with heads on their shoulders Nadya is soon to discover her self-willed fantasy has fallen flat and the air taken out of Nadya’s sails along with it.

 

 

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Millie

Look up Angels in Waiting online; What you will find is a little frequented site describing a service where nurses take foster babies into their own homes to prepare them for adoption.  They are paid for this "foster" service through medical and medicaid.  I doubt they had any privately funded sum set up to support these children - they were just going to use the state system to get the children into a 1home paid for by the state and away from the mother.  A huge scam thought up by Gloria Allred

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Chris Rich

So sad she is doing this.  It is like she is looking for the fame/fortune rather than the love and care of ALL of her children.  Poor babies....dumb woman...they offered her help and she turned it down...dont turn these babies in to more of a freak show than you already have woman....geez

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