Octuplets Mom Fires Free Nanny-Trainers

Octuplets mother Nadya Suleman has fired a nonprofit group of nurses that helped care for her children, accusing the group of spying on her and reporting her to child welfare officials, her spokesman said Monday.

Suleman attorney Jeff Czech said the relationship started badly between Suleman and Angels in Waiting, which has been training nannies paid by Suleman at the family's home in the Los Angeles suburb of La Habra.

Last month, an attorney for Angels in Waiting filed a complaint against Suleman with child welfare officials, seeking an investigation into whether the mother could provide a suitable environment for her 14 children.

Suleman later had several confrontations with the nurses, Czech said, and the situation grew unbearable Sunday when Suleman came to believe that Angels in Waiting founder Linda West-Conforti was filing a report against her with child welfare officials.

"It never was a good fit," Czech told CBS News, "and so she was forced to find other help."

"It started out adversarial and never really resolved itself," Czech told The Associated Press. "Nadya felt that she was being judged wrongfully and she didn't need it. All it did was make a difficult situation worse."

Czech did not detail the complaint and lawyer Gloria Allred, who represents the nurses' group, refused comment Monday, saying more details will be released Tuesday.

A call to the Orange County Department of Children and Family Services was not immediately returned, but child welfare cases are typically kept private to protect the identities of the children involved.

CBS News correspondent John Blackstone says Czech acknowledges that, the night a week ago when the first two of the octuplets came home from the hospital -- to a media frenzy -- one of the Angels nurses filed a complaint with authorities.

"I can only imagine," Czech says, "that it was due to the incredible amount of people at Ms. Suleman's Home" that night. "It really got out of hand."

But Allred showed up as well, uninvited, and was asked to leave.

The celebrity Web site TMZ.com obtained the 911 recording.

The caller said, "I'd like to have somebody removed from the home I'm at right now."

Who, asked the 911 operator.

"Gloria Allred," the callewr replied. ... She's not authorized to be here. ... She just walked in and they really don't want her in the home."

Angels in Waiting had initially offered to provide 'round-the-clock care, to be paid for by public donations, but later scaled back its offer to only provide training to Suleman's nannies. Suleman has said the offer was changed because the group wasn't receiving donations, but Allred has denied that claim.

Czech said that Suleman will have her nannies trained by nurses from the Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center, where the octuplets were born on Jan. 26. Kaiser spokesman Jim Anderson said the hospital sends out home health nurses to provide training and guidance to new mothers, and at least two such visits have been made to the Suleman home. Anderson said he was not sure how much the program costs.

Four of the octuplets are home from the hospital, and Suleman has six other children.

[vannuys]

The saddest thing of all is that these kids will be damaged even more if they are separated.

[vannuys]

The nurses shouldn't be fired. They did the right thing, as Suleman is the one who went public with this whole thing. Since we are paying for this, I think we have a right to know what's going on.

By the way, comments like that (that the nurses were unprofessional) are the reason why so many people no longer want to get themselves involved in situations where children need help because the parents are crazy.

I would certainly no longer do what I used to do because the very parents who want your help make the situation worse.

[homespunlady]

Allred has delusions of recreating the "Dionne Quintuplet" circus from the sounds of it.

Those babies were taken away on grounds that the parents were not competent to raise them, placed on display in a sterile nursery with official state "caretakers" then raised as novelties in a zoo.
They spent their lives being treated as "state" sideshow freaks and the story isn't one I'd wish on anyone.

If this Angels in waiting group was sincere about their purported purpose and status - there are PLENTY of LESS "high profile" cases that would appreciate them

- MOVE ON and "help" someone else. Lay off the vindictive publicity seeking and truly provide "help" elsewhere.

[skeezix06]

Right 122049. Better to hire people who are in a questionable state of health themselves and with only a little command of english and therefore limited possibilities to report possible parental neglect to care for babies who are in a rather fragile state of physical health, discharge home notwithstanding.

[jerijoyce]

pythoncharly WHAT ARE YOU BABBLING ABOUT????? THE TOPIC OF THIS FORUM IS THE SULEMAN BABIES!

[jerijoyce]

Everyone should leave this woman and HER children alone!!! She carried these babies and gave birth. People like Gloria Alred who came on CBS and stated that she was in a jacuzzi and shopping until cameras were present, how would she know? She was barred from entering the residence! She was on Dr. Phil and stated none of the lies that she said on CBS. That nurse has a problem, she refers to Nydia's home as our house, she needed to leave. All of these people who want to take her kids away should have their own children. Child protective services should be the only one guarding these children and monotor these babies and THEIR mother. Ms. Allred and the angel network are only looking at camera time and a pat on the back and frankly I am tired of hearing from them and seeing them on the news. The first six children look very healthy and none of them are or were in danger. These HYPOCRITES should listen to themselves and stop trying to get even because they are no longer wanted and cannot get any free airtime. If people want to do something, pray for this family and ask the press to leave them alone. GLORIA ALLRED, GO AWAY AND FIND SOMEONE ELSE TO PICK ON. WHAT MAKES YOU A GOOD MOTHER? WE THE PEOPLE THAT YOU ARE PLEADING YOUR CASE TO, KNOW NO MORE ABOUT YOU THAN WE DO NYDIA, WHAT MAKES YOU THINK WE WILL BELIEVE YOU OVER HER???????????

[o22u]

As a registered nurse I must chime in on this one! For a nurse to publicly speak out against a client is unethical and serves to substantiate the reason to terminate her services. I would file charges against her for violation of confidentiality with the state where she is licensed. Yes nurses are mandated reporters. How many mothers hire nannies to diaper and feed their babies?? That is not abuse! I have not agreed with the Octo Mom on anything until now! These nurses should be called to task.! There are also penalties for filing false reports of abuse. The needs of the children would not be neglected if the nurses were meeting them. Nureses who violate confidentiality are a DISCREDIT TO THE PROFESSION!

[hockeymom441]

Maybe if this nut-job spent less time braiding her hair, caking on the foundation, and having pillow talks w/ radaronline.com - she could actually begin to take care of her own kids. Everyone knows she's a pathological liar (her denial of her freakish plastic surgery seals the deal for me!) and the most narcissistic person I've ever listened to. I have no doubt it's just a matter of time before the state takes those babies away and places them w/ people whose brains are tuned into Earth channels... or even "on" at all. I consider myself sane - and if I had 14 kids - I'd been freaking out! The fact that she's so blase is alarming. She acts like its all some cute little game, like she's playing dolls.

[akpals]

I think Nadya is a freak, but if someone was reporting me to authorities, I would probably kick them to the curb too. The situation has gotten ebough media attention that the department of child welfare will be keeping tabs on her. Those nurses from Angels in Waiting could have tried to help the family adjust to the changes they are facing before reporting her for every little thing she did or didn't do.

[shereen1979]

it is what it is...we all agree she should have never gotten herself pregnant after having 6 children without a husband...but those babies are such a gift...and my heart beats joy just imagining them...praying that god could bless them with a good life...lets hope she can give them that....