Three children found dead

[RedandChecker]

m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-27122410

Very, very sad

[AliceDoesntLiveHereAnymore]

Swannery I believe an article states (as mentioned previously on the thread) that the DD was diagnosed with the condition while the mum was pregnant with the twins. So actually they may not have taken a conscious risk at all in having more children.

[Swannery]

Sorry, hadn't read full thread. Major major bad luck.

[Obstacles]

please don't speculate that these children are better off dead. There was a lady in her fifties with the same disease interviews on channel four news last night. The disease took her her sister at two but she herself had lived a full life though very disabled and said she had not felt pain. She had been made a baroness.

The mother may have been driven to the edge and needed much more support. I don't judge her but this act was very wrong. Rip little ones

[UnderthePalms]

In children with the more severe forms of the illness, fatal respiratory problems usually develop during childhood meaning they never reach their teens. If they had this form then that's very different from the baroness in her 50s. It's no more speculation to think they may have had the severe form than it is to suggest they may have been like baroness lady in her 50s.

[shakinstevenslovechild]

I don't talk about her much on here, but my little girl had a very severe form of SMA she died at just a few weeks old, for the short time she lived I had to sit by her unable to hold her, barely able to touch her, because her muscles were so weak her bones hadn't developed properly and we're broken and brittle, I was unable to bring any comfort to my little girl, all the while her gorgeous brown eyes were fully alert, aware of every test, procedure, every minute of her life was filled with so much pain. She couldn't cry properly, but her eyes would redden and fill with tears and I had to watch my tiny daughter suffer and not be able to do a single thing to help her.

I was also pregnant when the results came back (the best part of a year later) that her condition was genetic, I was lucky my dd was fine.

I can absolutely understand why this Mother did what she did. I can't say for certain that I wouldn't have considered the same.

I don't judge this Mother one bit, not for a second.

Heartbreaking for all involved

[KEGirlOnFire]

Shakin, your post has made me cry, I'm so very sorry for your loss .

No judgement from me for this poor woman and her family.

RIP little ones.

[hazeyjane]

Yes there are 4 types of SMA, no one knows which type the children had. Types I and II are life limiting and almost always fatal in childhood, types III and IV usually have normal life expectancy.

[Thurlow]

I'm so sorry, shakin

[UnderthePalms]

Shakin

[hazeyjane]

shikin, so very, very sorry for your loss. x

[hazeyjane]

sorry, that should have been shakin

[MarshaBrady]

Shakin that is so sad, I am so sorry for both of you, and your family.

This news is so heartbreaking, the poor family.

[Forgettable]

Shakin I am so so sorry. Xxxxxx

[RedandChecker]

So very Sorry for your loss shaken

It would be 'assumed' that the children had either stage 1 or 2 considering it has been widely reported their illnesses were life limiting.

I couldn't imagine having one child with an awful illness, let alone life limiting, let alone 3 under 5 with life limiting illnesses. What this family were going through is unimaginable, it is so very sad.

If she is charged I so do hope the trial is a compassionate one, the pain all of the family will be experiencing - unbearable

[StampyIsMyBoyfriend]

My first thought, when I heard three children had been found, was what must have driven the mother to do that.

Poor family all round. Hope the daughter gets plenty support.

[UnderthePalms]

It would be 'assumed' that the children had either stage 1 or 2 considering it has been widely reported their illnesses were life limiting.

Good point.

[Cerisier]

I am so sorry Shakin xxx

I have a very disabled sibling, and we know many families with disabled children. The stress and heartbreak is ever present.

I don't judge this mother for one second either and I hope she is treated with compassion.

[shakinstevenslovechild]

Thank you all

[handcream]

I know this wont be a popular view but surely we cant accept that if somone decides that someone else must die that they then take that decision on their behalf and its OK.

We are not saying this are we....

[NigellasDealer]

no I think people are saying that this mother was stressed and upset and isolated to the extent of insanity

[shakinstevenslovechild]

I don't think anyone has said it's ok and she did the right thing, I think, for the most part, people have said it's understandable.

[Pagwatch]

Of course no one is saying that.
People are saying that they have sympathy with people who may make terrible choices inthe face of despair.

[Blackmouse]

if the mother felt the childs suffereing outweighed the qualitity of their life and what was done was in the childs best kindest interest then she did a brave and ultimaltey kind thing

[UnderthePalms]

The cruel thing about this condition is that instead of the child learning to do new things, they would gradually lose capabilities. Imagine the dread each time the children deteriorated in some way and knowing that things would only get worse until they couldn't breathe. More than anyone should have to suffer. Tragic.