Do you believe that it is better for a newborn to be with his drug addicted mother because, because she?
gave birth to him?
Surely, just the threat of having their newborns taken from them if they continue doing drugs will get them into rehab & recovery?
And surely every expectant Mum goes for monthly check-ups…how isn’t the problem sorted out then & there? Why can’t they just be put into a detox program to save their babies?
This is so terribly sad & wrong…babies entering the world addicted…thru’ no fault of theirs…
London, Aug 17 (ANI): There has been a drastic increase in the number of babies born with drug and alcohol addiction problems in Scotland.According to the Scottish Sun, one in every 264 newborns in Scotland now suffer withdrawal symptoms as a result of junkie mums abusing deadly substances from heroin to cannabis.One in every 98 pregnant mums have admitted that they put their unborn child’s life at risk by taking drugs during pregnancy, new figures unearthed by us show.
Scots Labour leader Iain Gray called for junkies who shoot up in front of their kids to have their children taken off them.”If a child is fending for themselves to survive, and people around them are having *** and taking drugs in front of them, I think that is not an acceptable way for the child to be living,” the Sun quoted Gray as saying.
“At the heart of the existing system is a presumption that it is better for the children to be with their mother and their birth family. That is wrong,” he added.
There is 20 per cent risk of babies dying from Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS).Although a majority recovered naturally without medication, others are forced to through a painful withdrawal that can last four months.A child suffering from NAS can experience tremors, high-pitched crying, vomiting, diarrhoea, fever, sweating, seizures, delayed visual development and wobbly eyes.
Nationally 65 per cent of drug-using mums-to-be are taking heroin and methadone, while 29 per cent use cannabis and 11 per cent knock back sedatives such as Diazepam and Temazepam. Most of the babies we treat have been exposed to heroin or methadone and need oral morphine to treat them,” said Dr Helen Mactier, a consultant neonatologist who studied drug-dependent pregnant women at The Princess Royal Maternity in Glasgow.
“It can take anything from 24 hours to a few days for a baby to detox from heroin and months for babies to detox from methadone,” she added.
Edit: Bear, then why did they get pregnant & choose to have the baby? They seem to be lost…no one will intentionally harm a life growing inside of you…which is part of you. They need help & if they don’t take that help, their babies need the help…away from their helpless Mums. zzzzz
Asked by:Faith
Bear posted: 15 Aug at 7:38 pm
Sometimes Faith,you see life in a too simpler light.
All they care about is their addiction!
Faith – They’ll f**k for a fix! They don’t care if they have the baby,or if it’s stillborn or miscarried!
Kisha posted: 16 Aug at 1:01 am
yes, if she clean up her act.
tfoley5000 posted: 19 Aug at 3:31 pm
I think Its seems Silly However She has Given Life to Child, to prove something.
misty-dawn posted: 19 Aug at 5:17 pm
I’m in agreement with Bear. I grew up with an alcoholic mother so I know what lengths ‘addicts’ go to in order to keep their habit first and foremost in their lives. Their ‘source’ whatever it may be, is more precious than life itself. Children, partners, parents do not exist as far as the addict is concerned, and no matter what, even if you can get them to admit they have an addiction, they feel they can always justify it.
meganjess posted: 22 Aug at 12:16 pm
Im sorry but this makes me sick to my stomach.
Anyone who knows me will know already I have a pathalogical hatred of junkie scum anyway but these pathetic women who drag their helpless babies (thats helpless babies not mums Faith xx) shold be totally ashamed.
Has anyone ever seen or heard a newborn detoxing from *****?
Cos I have and it is the worst sound ever.
I am actually crying as I read your question as it is the one thing that makes me both sadder and madder than anything.
Its selfishness of the highest extreme
Helly Moo has lost her voice posted: 23 Aug at 12:41 pm
Sometimes all they care about is their addiction in which case the baby should be took off them.
I watched a programme in which you saw a baby going through heroin withdrawal. The cry is like nothing you will have ever heard. It is vile, it bought me to tears. The baby was tearing at itself.. a newborn.
The mother didn’t care.. she should have gave up but she didn’t, social services let her keep the baby. Why on earth?! She gave up her right as a mother the moment she carried on taking drugs. She was offered help & given help but still went out and scored heroin.
The thing is, why didn’t she score morphine if she needed it so bad? An ex addict was told by a Dr if she ever took too much methodone to just score morphine instead of herioin because it gives the same affect but doesn’t undo the work you’ve done with the methodone.
It’s horrible & I know of a mother who scored heroin just after she gave birth, thankfully the mothers sister in law knew the guy was a dealer & grassed him up.
Some people are vile Faith, it is simple, they don’t deserve to be mothers.
They are sent on detox programs sometimes but there are ways of getting around it, you just don’t take it a couple days before your check up.
sammyjojo posted: 24 Aug at 11:47 am
Women who get pregnant and are alcoholics and drug addicts should have the babies taken away right away and placed with a loving family FOREVER! No second chance
Gobilina posted: 26 Aug at 11:10 am
I think it a sin that children are born to addicted mothers…shame on them for valuing a child’s life so little that they pass their habit on. Children who are born addicted should go into respite care and have the mum get clean before the child is returned…I support the idea of family centres where mothers could stay with their babies in a clean environment. So many of these mums are living a haggard existence and bringing up baby is simply continuing the cycle of abuse.
JD posted: 29 Aug at 9:54 pm
I think it wouldn be a good idea for governments to pick and choose who is capable of raring there kids altho i do think its not right for the child to have addicts as parents. Its a tricky one but i have to say the addict keeps the kid simply because of what i said above
Away With The Fairies posted: 29 Aug at 9:56 pm
Bear has given you my answer. I’m a foster carer – why do you think people like me are needed? Because people like them exist!
Imogen posted: 02 Sep at 1:54 am
All you people are pathetically closed minded and have absolutely no capacity to see life in the varying shades of gray that it is. You see things in only black and white and I can tell you that there is way more to life and the human condition than that! I am a recovering addict and mother of five. I went through some rough spots when my oldest were very young but have been clean for 12 years now. I am a wonderful mother to my children, they are my life. But according to you folks and your twisted outlook, I would never have had a chance to be the great mom I am if my children had been taken without even giving me a chance. I know my kids are alot better off being with me even having gone through the tough times than they would be in foster care or adopted out. the world would be a much better place if we all could have some compassion and put ourselves in others’ positions. being punitive to people with these problems helps no one, including the children!!!
El Guapo posted: 02 Sep at 11:38 pm
‘Surely, just the threat of having their newborns taken from them if they continue doing drugs will get them into rehab & recovery?
And surely every expectant Mum goes for monthly check-ups…how isn’t the problem sorted out then & there? Why can’t they just be put into a detox program to save their babies? ‘
If you believe this, you must be naive. Addicts have to stop. Until then they hurt everyone around them as well as themselves.
Irish Rover posted: 03 Sep at 4:57 pm
These types of situations are incredibly sad indeed. I think, in these cases, the best thing is for the children to be taken away from their parents. What chance have they got? If the parents have no hope, then at least give these innocent children a chance. But maybe it’s not that simple.
IrWin posted: 05 Sep at 5:02 am
More a world wide problem than singled out cases in certain countries wouldn’t you say.Thats one of this countries biggest let downs holding ourselves up as examples for anything and everything when you see the level of drugs consumed in the country of origin. of the drugs.Likewise some countries weaning children on wine,or others where vodka is cheaper than water.But hey,we are the baddies as usual ,but at least our orphanages don’t resemble world war three,and our streets arn’t full of children who have the one option to climb on an overcrowded bus for the capital.
stickadiddle posted: 07 Sep at 4:11 pm
I know for a fact that social workers consider that a bad mother is better than no mother.