I get what you mean but I think she’s trying to say they’re making out like she’s cracked out 24/7 but that she isn’t even using daily. I’m not saying that makes the usage while pregnant ok but there are varying levels of drug users and she doesn’t feel like they’re portraying her accurately. She needs help, not judgement and this show is not helping.
Every drug addict understands the stupidity of saying i dident use today. Shes saying it like that for attention. Shes not stupid shes cosplaying as stupid.
I volunteered in our hospital's NICU cuddling babies born addicted. They had to be given drugs to go through withdrawal. They would convulse and their little hearts could stop. Cuddling them helped them stay calm. It would break your heart to see their terrible suffering. I know it broke mine! They stayed in the MICU for months. Most of them would end up with life long problems! Selfish woman! Take parental rights away please!
Thank you so very much for being of great comfort to these babies born addicted. You’re certainly an Angel in my eyes. May God continue Blessing your giving ❤️
God bless you all of my kids were premature and was in the NICU for months. My oldest daughter had to go threw withdrawal because I have serious health problems and was in the hospital for the entire pregnancy. They had me on a lot of meds and I was kinda young but I knew something was wrong. Every time I would refuse my medications the doctor would tell the nurses to call child protection services on me because I was not following the recommendations for my unborn child and putting her life in danger. But the volunteers in the NICU was the best... I loved them. I refunded to leave my daughters side I cried all day all night. I lived across the street from the hospital. They would sit with her so I could take showers I wasn't eating or anything. They helped me so much. They taught me how to calm her down and so much more. She didn't like lights they knitted her a jet black quilt to put over her incubator. She is 23 years old still doesn't like light but either does my mother and father. Actually I don't like it either so I think it is just her she loved music hated the other babies they had all kinds of tricks for her I loved it. I always donate to them. They got me thru the hardest times of my life. I did 2 more pregnancy after that in different states so no more medication problems but still premature I had twins so they all had to say as well. It was wonderful they are amazing. So God bless you only a true angel can do that job. And without pay yes only a real angel 😇 so thank you from the bottom of my heart. The nurses don't have time to do it. We need you guys!❤
Thank you for doing that! I have been thinking about volunteering to do that as well. I was born with spina bifida and was in the NICU for the first 6 weeks of my life and in and out of the hospital my entire life having over 60 surgeries and I'm 40. I can't work because of my health and can't have children for the same reason but I love babies so much! I would love to be able to help in any way I can when I am well.
they were actively trying to send her to rehab. holding someone accountable for their actions isn’t not helping someone. the first step is recognizing the problem.
Getting her clean IS helping her. She keeps trying to argue, but her arguments are spurious; she keeps sighing in frustration, but only because she's not getting her own way. That's why she's whining. The fundamental truth is that all junkies are liars; they'll do & say anything to fulfill their habit.
Yes, she's a person, a young adult capable of making their own decisions. The only person who can help her is herself. Sure, people can give her resources, but if she doesn't use them. That's on her.. The baby has no choice.
The first 2 comments in this thread came from some slow people. Do you two think the pain and problems of being a drug addicted baby go away after birth? I have no first hand experience on the topic, but I'll make a wild guess that this sort of thing comes with lifelong issues.
So many people writing her off in the comments. She is lost in addiction, she needs help but that needs to be slow for those who arent ready. I was an addict for 30 years. I used prison to dettox & received a 2 year dto, with mandatory phychological support. Not everyone gets the real help I got. But i was tired, broken & ready. This is an illness, just like my Cancer was. Please dont hate. I really hope this lassy & her baby are healthy & well. ❤🏴
And the lady saying "we're here for the baby." Is cruel. The reasons this woman is on drugs were from her own traumas. If she'd tried to reach her by saying you're worth this. Your baby is worth having a healthy mother then maybe I'd believe these people have a clue what they're dealing with.
Sorry about your cancer..I was diagnosed with colon cancer recently...I can't imagine what you went through going through withdrawals in prison. That must have been awful...does the prison help you detox?.
@@sherryhendee542 yes while someone must speak up for the helpless unborn child whom cannot do it themself…. What the comment is trying to say ,however ,is that the mother is also sick and deserves to be cared about as well. I am a mother of 2 and I love my children so much and would do everything in my power to protect them, but it must be a very defeating feeling to not be cared for as much as everyone here is way more focused on helping the unborn child more then the mothers Illness as well. THEY ARE BOTH IMPORTANT! Like I said (for me) I would be more willing to do what it takes for my child, absolutely, but for her (whom is addicted to drugs and probably doesn’t have a strong enough bond with her unborn baby atm) needs more of a reassurance that she is cared about and that she is loved and she is important enough to all to want to have that will to want to get better for herself and her baby.Drug addicts are very selfish because they are sick and they do not have the brain capacity in the deepness of their addiction to make selfless decisions, it’s not their fault, it is the Illness speaking. She deserves that feeling of being cared about too… and if they really cared and wanted to help that baby, then they need to show the same respect to that mother as well. That mother is the only one who will be able to save and give that baby good health. She is the one carrying that child in her womb. The mother needs the help more then anything in order for her baby to be born healthy and safe. You need to understand addiction and how it affects the brain. Both mother and baby deserve a chance for a better life. Both mother and baby deserve love. She is not a monster, she is a sick woman.
Exactly. They're talking to her like she's a baby receptacle. Of course, that's going to be met with a lot of anxiety from an actual human being with a mental disorder. This is NOT how you approach a pregnant addicted mother. She can go to a methadone clinic. she can get a suboxone prescription. OR SHE CAN GET AN ABORTION. She doesn't HAVE to go to Texas. There are rehabs everywhere...theyre just trying to get some money at that particular rehab.
She doesn’t care about herself… she is not showing one ounce of self-care nor understanding that she needs help. You got to be cruel to be kind and she needs to face her consequences. Sweet talk ain’t going to change her mind
@Janellabelle Because taking drugs is serious complications for the child and she acts like just one hit every other day is okay. She is delusional and thinks it's okay to abuse the fetus
Maybe, because the mother is not "there" for the baby.... she doesn't want to stop using, so they're trying to get her help, to help the baby not be born addicted.
I think it’s because she clearly isn’t ready to get help but they need her to at least be clean until the baby is born to try and minimize the damage done to the baby. If she wanted help I think their approach would be different
Maybe they've already gone down every avenue to help her and she doesn't seem to want it. Therefore seeing as she is pregnant she should be made to stay in some sort of facility until the baby is born, then take the baby away and let it be brought up by people who care for it, because she obviously doesn't.
My Grandmother had a saying a lot of political people need to learn. A man convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still. No one changes their mind by being yelled at or greatly inconvenienced. The climate change protesters who block traffic are actually hurting their cause. Imagine being that young woman who is being ganged up on by all those adults. I guarantee you that whatever comes out of her mouth, her whole soul is in flight mode--she just wants out, and changing isn't even on the menu.
Really? Because being kind and sweet to an addict for far too long is a much better way? Because that works right? You don't tell someone "get better if you want to, but I dont really care" if you care for them. Just so they can go back to what they were doing?? You give addicts an ultimatum if they are affecting the lives of others and show they never cared for anyone else but themselves. If you don't care about the lives of other people, then yeah... be a pushover to people that use. Let them use you and other people. Dont get them help. Right???
Speaking medically. Seems she may have a problem with depression CAUSED BY THYROID DRUGS MAKE HER FEEL BETTER ( unless she purposely plucks her eyebrows really short. Allopathic CANNOT HELP BUT NATUROPATHIC CAN BUT BETTER TO GET PROPER treatment than mask with drugs loose baby She needs REAL HELP THE CORD separated her from her baby Baby needs mother. Mother needs baby To separate will mean horrendous worse problems She needs to see a NATUROPATHIC THYROID SPECIALIST (an EXCELLENT ONE IS In Tucson arizona she treats people all over the world- can we ( all reading this pitch in help her get the real help she needs so both she & baby can live naturally If I’m Not mistaken BECAUSE SHE has thyroid problems -not fixed prior to baby - the Baby ALSO will have thyroid problems !!! Anybody else interested to join me to help her. ???? Please comment
Yes and that's exactly what addiction is. You can't force an addict to do whatever you want. If they aren't ready to change, they won't. Stop trying to strong arm addicts into changing. It doesn't work and makes things worse.
When someone gets treated like dirt and told they don’t matter and only their child (who she may not have bonded with yet) is worth saving, they’re not going to want help. The drugs are more comforting than being treated like nothing.
@sazzowl_gaming8203 Sadly many of my country’s top corporations are about feeding egos. Wish they weren’t, but hey what can a handful of more “common” people like us do about it? Whoever has the money has the power is how it works here
Shaming is not a way to get people sober. Forcing is not a way to get people sober. She knows what she's doing is wrong, she's is already ashamed. Addiction is not as easy as "you have a baby now be sober" all these snarky comments aren't doing anything but proving everybody stupidity. I hope she got sober and her and her baby are doing okay
They aren’t shaming her, they are being real with her. It is no longer about her, it is about the baby. If she doesn’t care about herself that is fine but her baby deserves protection. What did they do other than tell her the truth? They didn’t call her names, they didn’t belittle her. How is anything they said or did shaming? She is not a victim, she put herself where she is today and now an innocent baby is suffering because of it.
Raise a couple of drug addicted or alcohol affected babies, and then you’ll understand why these people are not all sunshine and roses toward this girl. It is a long, hard road for those babies in life, and it’s 100% preventable. It’s horrible watching what the children have to go through.
No. 💯 incorrect. Been off the sauce 35 years. It’s called consequences. Her rights end where her baby’s begins. She doesn’t have to stay sober after the kid is born and taken away from her permanently. Until that kid is born, that body isn’t her’s. People NEVER get sober by being enabled, catered to, and coddled. PERIOD. 💀
Sadly I have a stepdaughter who does not great things to herself. However, every time she’s gotten pregnant, which is 6 times, she cold Turkey quits everything while she’s pregnant. Her problem is after the baby is born she just wants that one hit now & gets back on bad things. Zero of her babies were born with any addictions however. I’ve got to give her kudos for that. Her ex hubby & her Mom raise her kids. I wish she would just get herself fixed so she’d quit having kids other folks have to raise.
My sister is the same. Can be completely sober during pregnancies and deliver healthy babies but then goes right back to drugs. She's due to have her 4th this August. Her first is in foster care, her 2nd was adopted about a partenal aunt and I fostered her last child until he was adopted out. She now plans for me to take guardianship immediately following the birth of this baby. I feel so conflicted on continuing to help her. She's my sister and these babies are my family but when is enough enough. My oldest is 22 and my youngest is 14, starting over for the next 18 years is a huge thing. I pray our family members make the choice and get sterilized.
My youngest is adopted. He was exposed to so many things on a daily bases while in the womb. I watch him struggle everyday for what was done to him. He struggles from learning disabilities, physical disabilities, mental disabilities. To do drugs & alcohol while pregnant isn’t just selfish. It’s morally repugnant, disgusting & any woman who does should be criminally charged, put in jail & forced to be sterilized so they can NEVER do it again. It’s not fair to allow them to possibly do it again.
Hi everyone! I see some really nasty comments about this girl. WELL ONCE UPON A TIME I WAS HER!. I’m a recovering addict with 7 years clean and both my son and daughter were born with suboxone in their systems and they had to be detoxed off of it to be able to come home. Anyone who thinks I intentionally wanted to hurt my beautiful kids is absolutely wrong! If u have never walked in an addicts shoes u will never understand and u can pass judgment all u want but it still won’t change the fact that I like her we’re suffering an internal prison that no one else knows about unless u have been there. So try to be a little more understanding when expressing ur hate for her or addicts alike. People can turn it around just as I did and I’m now majoring in psychology to be able to help other addicts like myself.
I Agree wholeheartedly with this one comment. I also felt like they really weren’t trying to understand her issues whether she wanted help or not and they were already talking like they were going to take the baby away regardless of what happens with her.
I wondered why it felt like they were all attacking someone who CLEARLY has problems, and thought it sounded off, and then I read the kind-hearted comments of others and I knew I was right.
She’s not ready to get help. You can’t force help on someone who has addiction problems. They first have to want it. For it to work. But even then sometimes they fall off the wagon. Just take custody away till she is ready
She needs to be institutionalized in a rehab until baby is born. She's choosing to keep the baby then her choice HAS to be to get clean. She could get charged with all sorts of things if baby is born addicted. Not to mention the awful start to life this baby will have fighting addiction. Her choosing life for her child meant she had to be ready to get clean. When you are pregnant, your body is not your own. Everything you put into it affects the child inside and you have to be aware of that.
I used my whole pregnancy basically. Was homeless and the shelter i was at suggested i go to a rehab for moms i had never knew existed. I decided to go and had my daughter sober. Luckily she was healthy and didnt habe to be in nicu like a lot of other babies that came and went in that rehab. If i had known that was an option, i wouldve went in sooner. Some people just arent ready and unfortunately a lot of moms wont get sober before the baby is even born. Its partially the shame in yourself but also the shaming from other people that makes it hard to admit you need help. They definitely shouldve made her feel supported and i think she wouldve felt a little differently. My daughter just turned one and i recently celebrated 1 year sober 🙏
Good job momma! Not only did you do it for yourself, you did it for your child. Congrats on your sobriety! I wish good health to you and your baby as time goes along! Addiction is such a hard disease to battle. You proved your strength to yourself and should be very proud ❤
Imagine that hovering over her, you will be homeless and pregnant if you dont appear on that show, that should not have been a choice , Give her Strenght to cope take care , and hopefully she can free her self from addiction , with good supports ❤
I was born Crack addicted and was given to my mom to leave. She left me in the crib for 2 months, crying made her turn up the radio. That pain and misery is still fresh in my mind even though I was an infant. For the next 18 years she beat me and sold me to her Crack dealers starting at 3. Nobody in my family said a damn thing, they only covered for her. Cps was called a lot but never believed me or the therapist that said I was assaulted. They liked my Crack head mom and would laugh and talk to her like friends. Disgusting!!!! Not OK ever
@@anahabat8210 she died a year ago alone paranoid of jail time. My 3 siblings became addicts too. Drugs destroyed the entire family. Rather tragic, NEVER try drugs it is not worth it!
I'm so sorry that happened ro you. And I hope you get to know Jesis Christ, the father who never leaves or forsake you. I will remember you in my prayers.
It's more complicated than that. I am pregnant with my first. Week 22. All painkillers were stopped when the pregnancy was discovered. I have crps in my right leg as a result of an army injury. The only thing I have right now is medical cannabis. I make a real effort to use as little as possible. But the pain is so unbearable that I asked the doctors to give up the leg. Don't judge without knowing the background.
You're right you shouldn't judge unless you know the whole situation. But the point here is someone has to do something for that poor little baby inside of her, because she is clearly not putting the baby first.
That’s dangerous to stop taking opioids like that. They should have put you on a small dose of subutex. I know many moms who were on subutex while pregnant and there baby had no issues when they were born. Much safer then methadone .
Girl I'm positive that any ill effects from the medicinal cannabis is less harmful than the stress of you being in pain all the time. Period. There's a good chance it's safer than any OTC meds as well, especially since you can't take things like ibuprofen or naproxen while pregnant. You do what you have to do. A doctor giving you a medication is nothing like being addicted to illicit drugs. My youngest had issues from a prescription I had no choice but to take but in the end the benefits outweighed the risks according to my doctors. Stress is dangerous too. If the doctor put you on medicinal marijuana they did it for a reason. You are NOT a bad person for taking care of yourself.
That girl has made it clear how selfish she is -- if she is allowed her way, she will do severe damage. She still needs to be raised properly, and that requires direction and close supervision.
@@christinesbetterknitting4533she's clearly troubled, and too young and irresponsible for a kid. Yes she is acting selfish and yes it is her fault. But that doesn't mean she needs/deserves less guidance, patients, or love. People don't suddenly turn into addicts when they are happy in life. She's a kid herself! Imagine she gets the help, the love, the patience, and guidance she needs and completely turns her life around. I don't get how denying her all of that could possibly be productive for her life or the baby's life in any way.
This is what scares addicted parents from getting help while pregnant.. when in actuality preventative care could have easily been taken early enough to ensure the baby isn’t born addicted.
One thing I learned when I was getting clean is that I understood and related to people that had walked down the same road I was currently walking down. The people who got degrees and learned things from a book and hadn't experienced addiction themselves didn't truly understand what was going on or how it felt. But her being pregnant or not she isn't ready for help and sadly she is forcing that choice on to her baby.
Honest to god. I HATE when people say “it’s not about you” and “we are here for the baby” Shut up. Women are treated so poorly when it comes to prenatal care. They are treated like they are simply a vessel - it’s bs. I understand this situation is different because she is a drug addict but still it isn’t right to treat the mother like she is not important.
I admit, it should be about both the women and the baby. The women is the one suffering with the drugs but they don't care about what she's going through. On the other hand having a baby is a big commitment whether you're ready for it or not. While she shouldn't be treated as a baby machine she also should take responsibility. Either way this whole situation should be about both the baby AND the women's health as well.
@@jazmineraymond7495she decided to keep it so to you it is also her decision to have a baby strung out on heroine and permanent damage? She doesn’t think she needs help. She said 100x on this episode she is not an addict. She just uses heroine a few times a week with her sister.
I believe in helping people with drug addiction to stop taking it with in-house programs where they're symptoms can be monitored and medicine for nausea can be to help. I don't think you can give ultimatums to stop because they will either do it for someone else and are more likely to start using again or will push away even farther. It has to be they're decision to stop using drugs and browbeating a person and making them feel horrible can really backfire. I hope she stops using drugs for her own sake, not just the baby's.
When i had my daughter, in Las Vegas, they took me past the NICU on the way to see her and it was full of addicted babies, it was the most heartbreaking thing I've ever seen. It made me look at my children so differently. I can't imagine seeing my babies that way or how anyone can just be ok with doing that to the helpless babies!
I had a foster child for 2 years. Her mother admitted to meth use within the first 3 months the pregnancy. Then quit. Damage done. The child had her issues. If mom had not used, child would have possibly not had some of her issues.
It sounds like she didn't know. drugs are bad but she did stop when she found out so it sounds like she did the best she could with the information she had at the time it sucks her child suffers from issues now but it's not entirely moms fault if she didn't know. At least she cared enough to stop when she did find out and not continue that's the difference.
@@annawest7626 gosh the very day that I found out I was pregnant I had been at a theme park riding roller coasters and such. Not quite the same, but yeah when you don’t realise your pregnant you do all kinds of things and when you are on drugs you may not even realise you are late let alone pregnant. Mind you doesn’t make it any less heart breaking for the affected child.
@@violetscreaming no it doesn't it's unfortunate but like I said it's not like she continued once she found out. And it's funny you mentioned riding roller coasters I literally did that like a week before I found out I was pregnant I was like almost 3 months. Lol what a coincidence I specifically remember cause I rode the magnum at cedar point.
@@annawest7626 yeah I went on one of those big drop rides and a loop the loop style roller coaster one after the other. I ended up with ptsd style fear of falling after that and could not go into elevators for the longest time lol
I think she's chosing drugs over her baby. Selfish maturity. That poor tiny baby will have to go through terrible withdrawals. Gee's she's proud of herself for not using drugs today. Poor, poor baby!
She is an addict and she is sick… she needs to get help. Addiction is a selfish disease. She doesn’t have the mental capacity to act selfless. If you understood addiction you would understand that she needs the guidance and adult figures that care and shows her love in order for her to have the will to get the help she needs to get clean for herself and her baby. And as addiction goes it’s a day by day process, one step at a time, everyday is a milestone for recovery.
Oh give it a rest. The facilities he uses are duel diagnostic centers that provide a ton of testing and elite doctors, with exceptional experience in drug addiction. Instead of making unsubstantiated and unwarranted accusations, maybe consider the child she's carrying that she's plying with drugs? Js.
@@kristinefaulkner6035Have you looked these places up though? I highly recommend. Yes, she needs help. But not from dr Phil and not from these messed up centers. Isn't it weird that he's always sending them to the same centers? Isn't it also weird how instead of recommending help from the specialists, he used to recommend using the app Doctors on demand?
She said it! She just went on the show because if she didn't she would be homeless...! Let that sink in! Dr phil and jis gang did a dirty one on this and that poor girl!
What's wrong with you!?! She's 7mis pregnant doing heroin and cocaine and drinking. She's lucky She's not in JAIL! What he offered and gave her was a GIFT to her and her unborn child.
The parents are to blame for that ultimatum not Dr Phil lol you think they’re threatening this random girl with homelessness if she doesn’t come on their show
I remember this... the mother with the short grey hair was dying on top, her life expectancy was short it was cancer. She didn’t want to die with her x2 daughters addicted and one pregnant. Her and her husband where helpless, she couldn't die in peace....
Its sick that there are women out there who cant get pregnant and they would wonderful mothers. And then there is this one, who is literally killing her baby. Killing her blessing.
Didn’t this Dr Sophy have an unethical relationship with one of his patients…? Publicly. Taylor from RHOBH. Pretty sure he’s in no position to stand on a soapbox and judge anyone about anything.
@@darlenebertocci4631doesn’t matter if he helped thousand of people if he can have an unethical relationship with someone he can do other things . If this is true
If you're not willing to go get help and you're even thinking of using drugs while you're pregnant... you're being extremely selfish and harming your baby. 😢 Do it for your baby.
I relapsed when I was pregnant. I reached out to our County Drug & Alcohol. They found me a safe house that offered women and babies a GOOD way to live
My friends mom who is a high school English teacher smoked weed the whole time she was pregnant. My friend just got her master's degree and is now working at a university. I'm talking about weed people....and no she was born perfectly healthy. Highly intelligent plays multiple instruments.
My youngest had withdrawals from a medication I had to take and even though I literally had to take it I felt like the worst most terrible person. They ended up making me talk to a psych person and put me on antidepressants before I left the hospital after my emergency c section. I felt like a failure for not having a natural birth like my older child and then on top of it he was having shakes at times and sneezing all the time from it. He only stayed for four nights but that was the worst hardest four nights. He's five now and totally fine. But in the NICU I saw people who had little micro preemies and babies addicted to illicit drugs and it just killed me. I felt so guilty for getting to leave with him. How dare I be happy leaving with my son walking by these babies born addicted and so very tiny with no visitors. The drug addicted babies had no visitors I saw in the days I spent sleeping in a chair in the NICU. It was so sad. And some of the very small preemies parents were in there every day looking at their little 1-2 pound babies and they looked so sad and scared. I get that addiction is not something you can just drop. It's painful it makes you so sick I get it. You may have nowhere to go. But you can't give up 💜
How could a pregnant mum do this to her unborn child?. I had terrible toothache when I was pregnant with my oldest son, and I wouldn’t take paracetamol/ Tylenol. I put up with the pain.
This is why no one should preach my body my choice. Contradicts their whole narrative, of it being a women's body. The baby is a human being and they are trying to protect the baby from its mother. It should be the same for every unborn child.
She is a child herself 😭😭😭 where do we draw the line? Where are her parents, why are all these adults ganging up on her. She needs love and nurturing 😢😢. This breaks my heart 💔
What you don't understand is that if mom abruptly stops, she could miscarry. There are better options, but unfortunately, quitting cold turkey is not one of them. Unless mom is trying to miscarry intentionally.
@queenelizabeth4242 that still doesn't justify as an excuse to pump you're unborn child with drugs and drink sorry I don't feel sorry for the addict I feel sorry for the child
@@sophieward7415 it's not an excuse. And I do not approve of drug use or alcohol use during pregnancy. I'm saying there's an alternative. But quitting cold turkey is not it.
I work as a pediatric nurse with children affected by these drugs...it's the saddest thing to witness...they are affected for life...on vents, with all sorts of other deformities and sequalae... Someone needs to show her pictures of what could happen...but she's selfish....
I understand accidently getting intoxicated when you haven't confirmed you're pregnant but knowing you're pregnant and doing drugs anyways? This makes me so angry.
Look up her kid..youll see the effects on a baby. Youe probably in denial of how your kids are hurt by your use... sad making excuses for drug use....sad
Anything can be addictive. People seriously don’t get it. The ones who say marijuana is a gateway drug are correct. Nobody starts off wanting to do hard drugs. They look for the next high. I feel a difference in my mood, appetite, body, having constant headaches from literal withdrawal of marijuana. I don’t get how people can even say that
BS. Use any type of substance and when your body gets used to it, withdraws will happen. It may not be pronounced, but it happens. Add a growing fetus/baby (whichever you prefer) and it can and often does stunt development both mentally and physically.
@CaitlinVanderlip That sounds like a you problem. I'm fine with or without weed. I smoked my entire pregnancy and my daughter was fine and there was no THC in her system.
I would be willing to bet big money that the two people talking to the girl in pink have both done some really bad things in life that they'd never admit to or discuss to the public.
A friend of mine fosters drug addicted babies and it is so sad to see them. The last two she had both had medical issues due to being exposed to drugs, both born premature. The fact that she doesn’t comprehend how horrible even using drugs one time while pregnant is is just crazy to me.
This is so sad, that girl is literally 18, she’s barely not a child herself and most people who are drug addicts don’t choose the life that led to drugs. I’ve grown up around some really horrid situations and I’ve been very fortunate in that exposure to drugs early on actually deterred me. If I had gotten addicted to drugs, pregnant at 18 and then paraded onto tv to be blasted by adults who have no idea I’d feel flustered too. This girl needs love and support, no one gets clean if they don’t have a support network. Get this girl a safe environment, a detox programme and more education around healthy choices, parenting, and generally life help.
It’s about both. The mother and the baby. If you help the mother you help the baby, she can be a good mother still and turn her life around and that baby will be better off for it.
You can't force an addict to stop using. And that is nottheway to do it. They are tellingherthat the unborn baby has morevalue than her. Congrats on confirming her reasons for using in the first place! This was disgustingto watch, it pissed me off. And I never even had her problems. They are shaming and threatening her, and that will never help.
If she is a teen, pregnant, addicted, we should be evaluating the parents, not her. I really hope she gets help, not the shame she was given on this show.
Baby, baby, baby!! What about the girl? The lady out an out said "we're here for the baby!" Why send her to TEXAS?! Women in Texas have absolutely NO RIGHTS! Nobody, not one asked if she wants the child! Maybe, if she isn't very far along, they should give her the option of abortion? If she's been doing drugs since conception, and "once is all it takes" then wtf? And the fact the guy said "you might never get to know that baby" sounds like she will end up having it taken away from her ultimately anyway. They are CHILD ADVOCATES, not there to help her out at all!
She better go to rehab now. I went when i found out i was pregnant. If she tries to detox without medical help she could put the baby in shock and it will die. Thats what they told me and it was enough for me to pack my bag and go. I wasnt about to make my baby suffer for my selfish acts. I stayed sober she came early but was still healthy fully developed and not addicted to anything. Im sober now still shes 9 and i have a 4 year old as well. Ive seen videos of babies detoxing from the mother after birth and its awful. They have to cover their eyes because they are so so sensitive to light they shake uncontrollably they suffer so much worse than an adult would on this. She better make the right choice. I pray she does.
