This is insanity

mugwump · Oct 17, 2005

I might get a little flack from this post but I mean it from the heart. I feel that us as nurses have the right and authority to be nosey. We See things. We hear things. we are privy to information. Not that I am saying a nurse could have stopped this probably not. But lets preten (Attacher a) and victim b) were both pregnant. Normally they go to OB's where they see nurses. (Attacker A) miscarries. you know this but with hippa can't let anyone know. But you may or may see that she is still pretending to be pregnant. Seeing her by diapers and a bassinet at walmart. (do you feel comfortable enough to confront her about this. She may be buying them for someone else. I've learned crazy things happen. We had a "pregnant woman" come in for monitoring because she hadnt felt the baby move she came in with an ultrasound (hers???) sstating she had twins. We could never keep baby's always got moms. Finally we did another ultrasound and she wasn't even pregnant. Husband had sold the truck to by two bassinets 2 car seats, snd she wasn't even PG. She had 2 options. OK maybe 3 Come clean and tell the truth. Tell them the babies died she delivered and took them to the hospital and they can't get them back (Yes I belive I have recived a phone call like this) #3 steal a baby to continue the lie. Maybe someone had an inllking deep down inside. About 6 years ago before I started working with OB patients I had an aide who said she was pregnant with twins, she never got fat I belive she said that one died. She had them at a hospital where they wouldn't have delivered them that early and she went there for a waterbirth wich they didn't do at that time. She called in work from the hospital where she gave birth but when I called back 10 minutes later they had no record of her. Freaky. Had I known now back then I would have called her on it.

Question · Oct 17, 2005

That's good to know. I guess my local news got it wrong. :uhoh21: Oops!

You can watch it on fox news video. They interviewed the young man that found them. Just go to fox news dot com and click on video and then click on O'REILLY FACTOR. It is a pretty good video clip, that woman was nuts!

futureTMA · Oct 17, 2005

I'm sure because of this recent news, The Learning Channel is airing a program it did on the subject at least several months ago called "Dying to Give Birth". If you'd like to see it, you can to to TLC's website or find it on tv in Yahoo. I saw the show and it's very good as with most of TLC's educational programming. There is a shorter name for it than what I linked to in my "phenomenom" post which I'm surprised the medical journal that wrote about these cases didn't use/create. Anyway, in the program they call it "fetal abduction."

mugwump - In the cases on the show, the women never saw a doctor or nurse during their "pregnancy" but of course told everyone involved that they had. Those involved have no reason to doubt but the show doesn't really go into if and what those involved became more involved by asking questions. However, what I got from the show was that the women became great at deception in order to fool those involved.

I'd like to write more about the show, but I don't want to give to much away for those that want to see it. There is something in the show that is very good, but I'll share it later.

Mirai Kangofu · Oct 17, 2005

Why does the Bible story of King Solomon, the two women, and the baby come to mind?

futureTMA · Oct 24, 2005

For those that want it, here's an update. The article is rather long and basically tells you the women's life story.