Human rights, and a mother's love: who decides?

My daughter had hiccups.

One sucked her thumb. Born with a wrinkled thumb, my middle daughter was thumb sucker before she graduated college at age 21.

I felt her kick the earliest. Flutters they call it. Like butterflies in your belly.

My oldest kicked worst when I typed. I was a data entry clerk at an insurance company when I was pregnant with her. She also kicked the TV remote off of my stomach when I rested it there at 9 months.All of my babies were big.

Except my youngest.The one with the hiccups.

She was tiny and fragile and the minute she was born held us in our hearts forever. She was my New Year's Eve baby.

I remember thinking she had a "built in party" her entire life.

I lay on my bed one day as I rested, she had hiccups. I realized that was what I was feeling in my belly when I was pregnant.She had hiccups. TODAY, she needs me the most.As a mom, and her advocate.
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There is a frightening and sad story at Liz Spikol's blog My baby will be taken from me the moment it's born. I cannot imagine in my wildest dark imagination, that a woman would fear her baby being taken from her, before she holds it, loves it, nurses it and gives it a name. This baby has a name she is Molly, and the love she receives before she enters this world, should never be questioned, or held against her due to mental diagnoses.

"'I have offered to stay in a mother and baby unit after Molly's birth for as long as they want, and to be monitored. I would be prepared to stay there for 18 years if it meant I could be with my baby. But that, it seems, is not even an option.'"-Fran, a mother.

FROM the article in the Daily Mail:

"Her problems appear to have begun when she was raped by an acquaintance at the age of 14. Diagnosed with a borderline personality disorder, she was discharged from a therapeutic facility in 2002, where she had spent 13 months, and spent nine months as an outpatient.

Today, she needs no medication and, according to her former psychiatrist, Dr Stella Newrith, 'has made a significant recovery to the point where her difficulties are indistinguishable from those of much of the general population'."

"'After the rape, I became clinically depressed,' says Fran. 'I lost a huge amount of weight and was admitted to a psychiatric hospital after trying to kill myself with an overdose of tablets. It wasn't a cry for help; I wanted to die because of what he had done to me.'

She spent the next three years, on and off, in residential psychiatric hospitals in Oxford, Nottingham and London after being diagnosed with a borderline personality disorder, in her case characterised by self-harming, instability and suicidal tendencies.

"For the final 13 months, Fran went to a therapeutic residential clinic, where she attended individual psychotherapy sessions and group analysis before being discharged as an outpatient.

By the time she was 18, she appeared to have put her problems behind her.

She started to flourish, taking five A-levels at Orpington College in Kent and applying to study neuroscience at Edinburgh University.

At the same time, she worked for two mental health charities, Borderline and Personality Plus. It was through that job, two years ago, that she met the man who is the father of Molly."
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Read it here at Liz Spikol-Horrifying violation of human rights.
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Hat tilt: Philip Dawdy,Furious Seasons.