The woman who cut her babys arms off

TeagansMom609 wrote: I saw that on the news the other day! Some woman in TX cut her infants arms off and then called 911 and just sat there waiting for them. Supposedly she had bad post partum depression. What a lame excuse! What the hell is wrong with some people??????? That makes me sick

Kirstenmumof3 replied: Awwww that poor little baby, that's so sad! I hope it will be okay! That women sounds like she definately needs therapy!

Josie83 replied: That is so hard to understand . . . did the baby die? That's so sad xx

coasterqueen replied: I don't know...I haven't had PPD but I seriously am starting to think that it's a serious thing and more serious for some than others. I'm not going to quickly dismiss it. I know it's awful and horrible but there needs to be something done in our health care system or something to do some kind of check up with these women. Some people just get so overwhelmed with a newborn they might not even know they have it. I feel sorry for everyone in this instance.

TeagansMom609 replied: Yes the baby did die

kimberley replied: how awful!! i had PPD with 2 of my three kids. while i did have issues with bonding with my second child, i never once had any inclination to hurt any of the kids. it was more that i wanted to hurt their father or myself. i felt really unneeded... insignificant. i should have been medicated i agree with Karen that something HAS to be done to better screen new moms for this. i was too embarassed to tell my OB but thankfully no major harm was done. i am sure other women feel the same way i did... spinning out of control and no way to stop it. it is a chemical/hormonal imbalance.

i remember a long time ago, a dr in toronto jumped in front of a train with her newborn child. this woman had everything... including PPD her husband even tried to get help for her because she was not at all herself... and they did nothing until it was too late.

~Roo'sMama~ replied: Oh how sad! I can't imagine being depressed enough to do something like that... it's scary. I have a history of depression and so my OB is a little concerned - but I just can't imagine doing something like that!

MomToMany replied: That is absolutely awful. I hate hearing about poor children suffering at the hands of their parents, usually the mother. Poor, poor baby.

ITA there has to be more done to help these women. It is a REAL issue, and most don't know they have it. I have been depressed for a good part of my life, but never knew it. I thought what I was feeling was normal. I think you also deny it when you hear that term, thinking it will never happen to you.

But as you all know, I was REALLY depressed a month or so ago. I knew there was something wrong, but didn't know what. I had all these guilty feelings about my kids and the choices I made which I truly regret now. I didn't know how to cope. I have never thought about hurting my children. That goes beyond PPD into PPP (Post-Partum Psychosis, I know I spelled that wrong).


If ANYONE has ANY symptoms, they should get to a Dr. immediately before its too late. Anyone should help, but they are too afraid of getting involved. But if I was around someone like that and didn't help and something happened to the child/ren, I could never live with myself.

momof2girls replied: I hear stories like this and it actually makes me sick!!! I went thru ppd and wanted to NEVER hurt my kids, I agree that its more then ppd that would make a mother hurt her child, they have to be insance. With my ppd, I just felt sad and worried about them, lots of women have ppd its nothing to be ashamed of and I agree get help if you feel anything weird....

A&A'smommy replied: OMG OMG OMG

Maddie&EthansMom replied: This happened 10 mins from my house. Talk about making you sick. I heard the 9-1-1 recording of her voice when she called in to tell the police. AND her picture is everywhere. She looks crazed. She is definetly insane and it has to be more than PPD. There are so many resources in this area. There are free clinics and seminars to help new moms and mothers to be. She has 2 other children that have been taken from her before. CPS has been making frequent visits to her home. It is stuff like this that pisses me off. I hate hearing that. Just to know this precious life could have been saved makes me want to scream. I just don't understand how it could have gone unnoticed. This woman LOOKS crazy. She looks and sounds like she could hurt someone.

MomToMany replied:
OMG, that is so awful! If there were problems with her before, why on earth would they let her keep that baby?? I pisses me off too to see poor innocent babies hurt when the whole thing could have been prevented . What a really screwed up system we have in this country !

I'm so sorry it happened so near you Aimee. I don't even want to see her face. When stuff like this happens, I think mandatory sterilization should be necessary.

dreamweaver82 replied: OMG

I keep hearing about these things and it bothers me because no matter how depressed i was i would never think about sick stuff like that never mind do it.

Something kinda smaller than that happened nearby where a mother bit some of her baby's fingers off and claimed that the cat did it until they found the proof leading to her. She claimed the whole PPD thing which I couldn't believe.

There are some sick people in this world and those people shouldn't breed.

LovingmyBoriqua replied: ITA!! What a Lame excuse if, this woman was suffering from Postpartum Pyschotic depression she could of went to her dr or even to the ER told the physican her situation..... I mean this incident shild suffer because of her man the woman look crazy too. I just thought that was sick just like that andrea yates case as well... I would never endanger my child because of depression if i was depressed i would see my dr ASAP or go to the ER asap. I would send my kids with a family member so children servies wouldnt remove my children until i got the help. I would made sure i was 100.9% well before i bring my children back in the home. But cutting the children arms off is not good sign. Their had to be signs this woman suffer from depression...