Last year, I posted about a LDS woman I found out about because her husband's relative was a Facebook friend (he is no longer). She had a three month old baby named Kolob who died of asphyxiation because she laid him down on a blanket and went to fix dinner. Somehow, he got ahold of gum and choked on it. The family had seven other kids, several of which had some significant problems.

Here's the original thread. http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1877505,1933001#msg-1933001

Several posters in the original thread predicted the mother would have another child. Well, today I went looking to see how the family was doing. Sure enough, they had a baby girl in May of this year. The child's name is Hadassah.

She posted about visiting Kolob's grave in June. https://thewright8.wordpress.com/2017/06/



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/05/2017 07:09AM by knotheadusc.

Oh man. That left me with a pit in my stomach and I don't even feel like letting the judgmentalism out. I don't know what it would feel like to have 8 kids. I don't know what it would feel like to lose a baby. And you can kind of predict some future things that will shake her to her core, even when losing a baby didn't. I just hope the best for those kids. And thank gawd that I don't have to live next door to them.

But I do think it's promising that they had Hadassah dressed up for the Pride Festival.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/05/2017 10:27AM by NormaRae.

I did not follow the link, the two posts I just read tell me she's screaming for attention.

I just politely clear my throat loudly when I want attention. She's carrying it to dizzying heights.

Well... I don't like to be judgmental, either.

On the other hand, there have been an awful lot of injuries to the kids in that family. I hope they were truly accidents and not due to negligence or abuse.

I have no frame of reference as to what life must be like in that family. It just boggles the mind.

He has to take some of the "judgement" if we are going to throw out judgement.

She seems to be doing what mormonism taught her to do. I've seen this A LOT of times and other families don't have this many accidents. Sometimes it is just the kids.

I'm speaking up because I have a younger brother who had a stroke when he was born. The doctor never told my parents. When he wasn't walking by 15 months and didn't ever crawl, but dragged himself around with a hand, my parents started going to specialists. At 18 months, he drank paint thinner. My older brother poured milk down him (he learned in scouts or he would have died. He had accident after accident, stitches and stitches and stitches. He got hit by a truck when he was on his bike when he was 5. My mother blamed herself the rest of her life for everything that happened to this brother. He had surgery for an extra bone in one leg. He had a cast on. He was about 7 or 8. He started complaining about it hurting and my mother took him to the doctor. He told the doctor he had jumped out of a tree into a ditch and the doctor found he had bent the wire going through his ankle. My mother couldn't keep up with him. He ran her ragged.

She worried herself sick about him and what would happen to him after she died. He's doing great. They let him live. He rode bucking broncos in rodeos in high school. I went to see him once and I had to get up and leave when they announced him riding. I'd seen him hit by the truck on his bike.

You never know just what things are going to happen to your children. She obviously is overwhelmed by all the kids. She's doing what God told her to do supposedly. It is horribly sad.

It would have killed my mother if my brother had died. I'm sure wherever she is, she is still watching out for him.

You are right. The dad is responsible, too. I believe he is an Army Reservist and a truck driver, so it could be that he’s gone a lot.

However, this family didn’t just lose their baby to a freak accident. They also had a kid with a broken neck, a kid with a broken leg, a kid with “brain problems” (her term), and another with autism.



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All those things going wrong. . .could it be a pattern??

There is a strange pattern. I suppose it’s possible for one family to have that many kids having accidents. But it does seem very unusual.

She dressed her youngest up for a Pride festival... TBM's do that now?

She dressed her in a rainbow colored outfit.

But it was for Gay Pride Day, per NormaRae... What 'obey the brethren' TBM does that?

I have a feeling NormaRae was kidding. The picture she refers to is of them at their baby son's grave and makes no mention of Gay Pride, at least not that I saw. I will admit that I didn't read very carefully, though.

Yes, I'm just being sarcastic. We had our Pride festival last week and none of the babies I saw there had nearly as great an outfit as the one in this pic. However, I'm sure that was the last thing that would have occurred to the parents.