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To fill you in: Young mom (mom 1) brings her daughter to me as a newborn. She's 5 now and still here. Mom 1 recommends me to her sister (mom 2) for her 1 year old daughter.
I start tending one year old. (is 4, almost 5 now) Mom2 gets pregnant, but the baby girl is stillborn. This the second stillborn baby. The strain of it all causes Mom 2's marriage to crumble and they divorce.
Mom 2 remarries,and gives birth to a healthy baby boy but their marriage is rocky and hubby seems to move out every other week, only to get back together a few days later.
Two months ago, the husband lost his job and they lost their state funding and had to pull the kids out of day care, but I see them regularly as they often pick up Mom1's little girl.
Mom1 called me very upset from the hospital yesterday. Mom2 and hubby had another fight and he left. Mom2 took 2 bottles of meds and tried to commit suicide.
The 4 year old daughter had the insight to call her daddy (the first husband) and said "something's wrong with mommy".
He left his job and arrived at the home 20 mins later to find his ex-wife blue on the floor. He called 911 and emergency crews rushed her to the trauma unit here.
She is still not responsive. The docs say even if she comes around, they don't yet know what damage was done as they don't know how long she was without oxygen. They are giving her a 50/50 chance. She is only 29 years old.
I am so gut wrenched. I have come to know the whole extended family and they are devastated. The husband is blaming himself and is falling apart.
The girl has been through a lot in her short years. Who wants to have buried two babies by age 29? Two marriages (both guys seem very nice, but who knows what goes on behind closed doors)
But suicide????????
She has been a good mother...but she did this with the two youngest kids in the house. What if the 4 year old didn't know how to call her daddy?
The baby boy (1 yr) will not remember anything, but the 4 year old girl watched her mother collapse, and was alone with her until her dad got there, watched her dad call 911, watched emergency crews work on her mom and then take her away. My heart aches so much for that sweet little girl. She must have been (and still is) so scared.
If her mom pulls through, we don't know if she will be ok mentally. If she dies, the fathers will each get custody of their birth children and this poor little girl will lose her brother too.......what a mess......having a hard time being cheerful for my day care kids today.....
...sorry for venting, but it helps to tell someone, you know?
I start tending one year old. (is 4, almost 5 now) Mom2 gets pregnant, but the baby girl is stillborn. This the second stillborn baby. The strain of it all causes Mom 2's marriage to crumble and they divorce.
Mom 2 remarries,and gives birth to a healthy baby boy but their marriage is rocky and hubby seems to move out every other week, only to get back together a few days later.
Two months ago, the husband lost his job and they lost their state funding and had to pull the kids out of day care, but I see them regularly as they often pick up Mom1's little girl.
Mom1 called me very upset from the hospital yesterday. Mom2 and hubby had another fight and he left. Mom2 took 2 bottles of meds and tried to commit suicide.
The 4 year old daughter had the insight to call her daddy (the first husband) and said "something's wrong with mommy".
He left his job and arrived at the home 20 mins later to find his ex-wife blue on the floor. He called 911 and emergency crews rushed her to the trauma unit here.
She is still not responsive. The docs say even if she comes around, they don't yet know what damage was done as they don't know how long she was without oxygen. They are giving her a 50/50 chance. She is only 29 years old.
I am so gut wrenched. I have come to know the whole extended family and they are devastated. The husband is blaming himself and is falling apart.
The girl has been through a lot in her short years. Who wants to have buried two babies by age 29? Two marriages (both guys seem very nice, but who knows what goes on behind closed doors)
But suicide????????
She has been a good mother...but she did this with the two youngest kids in the house. What if the 4 year old didn't know how to call her daddy?
The baby boy (1 yr) will not remember anything, but the 4 year old girl watched her mother collapse, and was alone with her until her dad got there, watched her dad call 911, watched emergency crews work on her mom and then take her away. My heart aches so much for that sweet little girl. She must have been (and still is) so scared.
If her mom pulls through, we don't know if she will be ok mentally. If she dies, the fathers will each get custody of their birth children and this poor little girl will lose her brother too.......what a mess......having a hard time being cheerful for my day care kids today.....
...sorry for venting, but it helps to tell someone, you know?
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