Equally hard. Just different. The goal posts are ever changing.Actually, a lot of it is judgemental and cruel. It’s really easy to be the perfect parent when you aren’t actually a parent.
A mum of teens!Im a mum of two under 6 and often wonder what they will be like as teens and if it will be easier or harder!!
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It is likely that any parents in here aren't exploiting their children's privacy and childhoods for views and cash. The very fact we can comment on her life and the finer details of her parenting is because she chooses to publicise it. We wouldn't have anything to say on her parenting if she respectfully kept her children's lives private.
A friend of mine had her twins at 34 weeks and she stayed full-time at the hospital while they were in the NICU (we're in nz so different to usa i know) but she was there 24/7 with them and they came home just over 2 weeks later!
Oh she was totally aware the birth will be premature and she was totally aware the babies were footling breech .
She just turned her pregnancy into ME ME ME fest, treated herself like a spoiled princess, was actually happy when she birthed kids fighting for their lives because “yay she got her body back and feels herself again”, ignored normal precautions…. soaked herself in a bathtub nightly, drank caffeine etc which is fine in regular pregnancy but anyone would understand that the multiple gestation+ AMA+ other complications were NOT normal to start with so she should have prioritized her kids and not her comfort
Now the kids are 37 weeks gestation so if she was fit to be a mother they’d have likely been discharged but yes, nurses must be worried how she’s not bonded at all to them nor puts an effort to learn how to care for them.
The super spoiled 3 year old she has at home is just an excuse… and in the end of the day he’s exploited as a cash cow not cared for. That’s why he’s 3 and in diapers and his speech is slurry.
I’m not even going into cruel click bites like “am I pregnant” videos and “very sad news” when she was in early pregnancy and knew everyone will take this as miscarriage announcement not some BS for her bunnies. The whole childbearing process has been exploited and squeezed for last drop of cash, gross, just gross
She just turned her pregnancy into ME ME ME fest, treated herself like a spoiled princess, was actually happy when she birthed kids fighting for their lives because “yay she got her body back and feels herself again”, ignored normal precautions…. soaked herself in a bathtub nightly, drank caffeine etc which is fine in regular pregnancy but anyone would understand that the multiple gestation+ AMA+ other complications were NOT normal to start with so she should have prioritized her kids and not her comfort
Now the kids are 37 weeks gestation so if she was fit to be a mother they’d have likely been discharged but yes, nurses must be worried how she’s not bonded at all to them nor puts an effort to learn how to care for them.
The super spoiled 3 year old she has at home is just an excuse… and in the end of the day he’s exploited as a cash cow not cared for. That’s why he’s 3 and in diapers and his speech is slurry.
I’m not even going into cruel click bites like “am I pregnant” videos and “very sad news” when she was in early pregnancy and knew everyone will take this as miscarriage announcement not some BS for her bunnies. The whole childbearing process has been exploited and squeezed for last drop of cash, gross, just gross
One of the cruelest pregnancy click baits was "I fell down the stairs" and then about an hour later she edited it to say in brackets "I'm ok" because everyone in the comments was sick with worry.Oh she was totally aware the birth will be premature and she was totally aware the babies were footling breech .
She just turned her pregnancy into ME ME ME fest, treated herself like a spoiled princess, was actually happy when she birthed kids fighting for their lives because “yay she got her body back and feels herself again”, ignored normal precautions…. soaked herself in a bathtub nightly, drank caffeine etc which is fine in regular pregnancy but anyone would understand that the multiple gestation+ AMA+ other complications were NOT normal to start with so she should have prioritized her kids and not her comfort
Now the kids are 37 weeks gestation so if she was fit to be a mother they’d have likely been discharged but yes, nurses must be worried how she’s not bonded at all to them nor puts an effort to learn how to care for them.
The super spoiled 3 year old she has at home is just an excuse… and in the end of the day he’s exploited as a cash cow not cared for. That’s why he’s 3 and in diapers and his speech is slurry.
I’m not even going into cruel click bites like “am I pregnant” videos and “very sad news” when she was in early pregnancy and knew everyone will take this as miscarriage announcement not some BS for her bunnies. The whole childbearing process has been exploited and squeezed for last drop of cash, gross, just gross
Oh yes. This one I remember too
I must admit her clickbaits are very effective- I start watching her closely after her pregnancy ones, but that’s just a wrong way to attract attention Too many people has been through horrible fertility related issues, pregnancy and infant loss etc, it’s just so wrong to monetize on this…Even the recent “Flynn doesn’t call me mom anymore” or whatever, that’s titled to suggest child issues and then her haha just kidding he made a fun name for me.. that’s not funny. It really isn’t.
Being crude and using black humor is one thing, laughing at peoples nightmares (like falling down the stairs and miscarrying is not exactly unheard of) is a whole other level
Her clickbaits are one of the first things that made me get the ick with her. I know all of the youtubers do it but she uses really insensitive, disgusting topics and it's bleeping vile.
The clickbait was the reason I unsubscribed, it was just getting ridiculous. I get that she wants clicks but that's not the way to go about it
I'm not a parent but I'm also not talking about babies in boxes and purple legs, that, I think is cruel. (Colleen said that, btw).
I'm sure there's a Colleen rave thread somewhere you can join. Or maybe mumsnet.
When my first was born I didn't know what to call the perpex cots and referred to it as a goldfish bowl. Seemed quite apt as they laid there under lights as all we could do was sit and look at them with the funky wrapped sunglasses on.
I am a parent of 4 children, ages 14,11,8&5
I have genuine concern for her mental well-being and bond with her babies I’m not a perfect parent and don’t usually judge but it’s genuine concern not a troll.
I have genuine concern for her mental well-being and bond with her babies I’m not a perfect parent and don’t usually judge but it’s genuine concern not a troll.
Hun, do you know where you are? Like.... you know what this forum is for, right?
That’s because you’ve never had a baby in a “box” or with purple legs. She’s telling her story? That literally happened to her? HER baby had purple legs. She’s talking about it on HER channel that literally no one forces you to watch. My baby also had purple legs when they were hospitalised once and I told many people about that. She misspoke by saying boxes? I wouldn’t necessarily know what to call them either off the top of my head. I haven’t raved about her once. But if you aren’t a parent then you really can’t speak on how someone else feels or should act post partum. Probably shouldn’t even if you are a parent. This site is to express your opinions, I get that, but Picking apart a new mother about stuff you know nothing about is just heartless.
yes of course! I’m just sharing my opinion tooWhich is fair to say! I kind of feel similar, although I can see how much she loves her children it is strange for the Vlogs to cut to her at home or going shopping etc because it makes it seem as though she’s okay and not thinking about the twins. I hope she is okay, mentally! We only see snippets of the day though and we have no idea what goes on in the other 23.5 hours of her day.
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I think either her doctor didn't correctly prepare her for premature labour or she never took it to be that serious, for some reason even after they were born she kept thinking they will be home in 2 weeks (by Thanksgiving).I’m sorry we haven’t mentioned it on this page of the thread yet; Colleen stopped to straighten her hair whilst in premature Labour with twinsI don’t care I’m being judgemental, that is completely crazy
Just based on her descriptions her doctor was a quack. Endless completely unnecessary procedures and “treatments” (vitamin IVs and testing, pep talks with her and Erik) but didn’t go straight to the point for the essential stuff.
I get that Colleen really enjoyed that woo woo approach but I think it was a huge disservice for her and her babies, not to mention the leaps of (useless) medical bills.
Her last pregnancy ObGyn was on point and that gave her “panic attacks” so… I can’t feel compassion, even though objectively, this time she was scammed.
I get that Colleen really enjoyed that woo woo approach but I think it was a huge disservice for her and her babies, not to mention the leaps of (useless) medical bills.
Her last pregnancy ObGyn was on point and that gave her “panic attacks” so… I can’t feel compassion, even though objectively, this time she was scammed.
And she shouldn't post her newborns online, or share her entire life, or broadcast her kid's entire childhood to the world. But she does. And as long as she does, I will comment on it, like everyone else here. If you've been following Colleen since before her first marriage you'd know this isn't nitpicking, it's a pattern. And that pattern is she will do and say anything for clicks and money. Heartless is her using miscarriage as clickbait. Heartless is her triggering her followers with talks of pregnancy and traumatic birth stuff without a trigger warning. Heartless is making a bunch of tweens her therapists because she's too self absorbed to live her life without an audience.
It's nice to see that on this site people with or without children have more common sense and compassion to how other people are triggered by Colleen posts then Colleen herself. Also she needs to take some time off her channel when Maisey and Wesley (or as she likes to call them "the babies") come home so she can bond and enjoy the time she has with them. She is financially stable enough to and I think most people would love to spend 3 months at home and get paid to do so.
It could just be that you say you're a parent because it fits your narrative that non parents shouldn't have an opinion.
You're actually being just as judgemental, making presumptions and saying what others should or shouldn't say or do. It's like you think not only is Colleen better than us, but you are too.
Nobody would force Colleen to read this site or any other gossip site, that would be her choice. If she did start reading here I'm sure you'd be the first one to point out to her to stop reading here and go back to HER channel.
I called it. The dermatillomania is back. She needs more sympathy. Two babies in the NICU wasn't cutting it.
What is back is her malnurished diet and fast lifestyle and her skin picking is a symptom of that. She was purposefully showing her fingers to the camera this week during advent to encourage comments so she could start the dialogue up again. They are gross looking and painful I bet, but if she won't take responsibility for her physical and mental health then it's all on her. She can't blame this on any exterior factors because she is the one who refuses to eat a sufficient well balanced diet and to take time off work to recover from her recent difficult experiences.
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