Come on, people…it isn’t like Britney is inside there.  This is a “You Can’t Fix Stupid” moment on so many levels.

Octomom Nadya Suleman brought home two of the strongest octuplets last night amid a swarm of crazed photographers and paparazzi and lookie-loos creating havoc in the streets and generally acting like complete fools:

It should have been one of the happiest days of her life.  Instead, Octo-mom Nadya Suleman felt she had to call police to control the chaos when she brought two of her octuplets home from the hospital Tuesday night.

First, overly aggressive paparazzi followed Nadya’s vehicle as she traveled from Kaiser Permanente Medical Center to her new home in La Habra California.
When the vehicle stopped at red lights, at least a dozen paps jumped from their cars and violently banged on the windows trying to get photos of Nadya and her babies. As bad as that was, it got even worse when Nadya arrived at her home. Hundreds of people were there, many blocking the entrance to her garage and even causing damage to it, when the garage door tried to close. 

The babies are reportedly doing well, and no worse for wear after their wild ride:

She brought the infants to her new house in La Habra, California. Members of the media and gawkers crowded the cul-de-sac, as news helicopters hovered overhead. Media swarmed the family’s vehicle as it slowly made its way through the crowd, into the home’s garage.

The babies discharged from the hospital were Noah Angel, known as Baby A, and Isaiah Angel, known as Baby C, according to the Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center.

The medical team that delivered the babies identified them by letters of the alphabet. On discharge, Noah weighed 5 pounds, 13 ounces, and Isaiah weighed 5 pounds, the hospital said in a news release.

“Both infants are able to bottle feed, are gaining weight and are able to maintain their body temperature,” the release said.

And they came home to a big new house, instead of the little house they had all been sharing:

Until recently, Suleman had been sharing another home with her parents and her other six young children. But that house ended up at risk of foreclosure, and Suleman moved into her own home.

Last week, she disputed news reports that her father had bought the new house.

“I earned it. … No, my father did not purchase this house for me. I did it on my own,” Suleman told Radar magazine’s Web site during a recent video tour of the 2,583-square-foot house.

“It’s 1,000-square-footage bigger than the old house,” she said on the video. “They [her older children] like it more than Grandma’s house.” [...]

People.com reported that their new home, which was listed for $564,900, has four bedrooms and a large back yard.

“My ultimate goal is not to be a burden on … taxpayers,” she told Radar. “So there have been a couple of offers. … I selectively picked a couple of opportunities to earn some resources for the kids.”

Great.  Now we’re gonna have Nadya and Nobody + 14: Electric Boogaloo.  Funny how she was content enough to live in “Grandma’s house” and just continue having babies, until the press showed up at her door.

(On a side note, what is wrong with people?  What was that all about?  I’m sure flashbulbs are just great for preemies just coming home from the hospital.  And why come out in the middle of the night to gawp at something like this?  Ridiculous.  I don’t agree with what Nadya has done but I also don’t agree with this bunch of knuckledraggers.)

So whatever happened with that whole Angels In Waiting thing I wrote about last week?

If you recall, there were some questions about AIW and their ability to actually pay for (and consequently follow through) what they had promised.  They at first said that they needed $135,000 a month to help pay for this care, which included an estimate of eleven nurses, and no taxpayer money would be used.  However, in 2008 it was shown that they had $5000 in revenue and $600 in assets, obviously far short of the amount they needed just for one month’s care for this one family.  They then admitted that the service would have to be paid for by donations…which of course means donations from the taxpayer.  Either way you look at it, the taxpayer is paying for their services.

At first, this is how it was described:

As our conversation ensued he named the items that would be needed, nursing care for the fragile preemies, therapists, occupational therapists (more than likely cp in the preemies) therapists for the three other disabled children (autistic, ADD, signs of autism), diapers, doctors visits and several other items.

Then came my question, “Does your organization have the budget to cover this massive undertaking”

“No, not at this time, but we are hoping to get donations and volunteers.”

Now, we’ve whittled the cost back to $50,000 a month and we’ve only heard about six nurses:

A charitable group known as Angels in Waiting has offered to be on site for Suleman’s kids, round the clock, providing 14 nurses a day, four or five at a time. Do I need to tell you how many mothers would faint with gratitude for a single nurse for an hour?

By the way, these services cost around $50,000 a month, Angels in Waiting’s attorney, Gloria Allred, told me [emphasis mine], and they are seeking to pay for that with — get this — public donations.

So what happened to the $135,000, and what services, if any, have been dropped?  Now, I am guessing the six nurses could be for the two babies already home (two nurses at a time, three shifts a day; it has been widely reported that the babies would only be coming home two at a time, so a huge team of nurses isn’t needed yet), but $85,000 still seems to be a huge chunk discounted off the previous figure.  You’d have to think that somewhere there were a few things taken off the menu.

And so just how does one donate to the octuplets, where does that money go, and what happens to it once it gets there?

If you do find the right Angels in Waiting all on your own, you link to their homepage HERE.

Do you see any mention of the octuplets there or anywhere on the links provided? I don’t.

Now link to DONATIONS at the bottom, it is a straight paypal account. Now I suppose people who donate online responsibly would be using the contact link there to find out how they can make sure that their donations are going towards the care of Nadya’s children, but fact is, front page doesn’t direct you anywhere to do that nor does the paypal account itself. Are we to suppose that AIW is putting ALL donations to them towards Nadya’s children? You know the old saying, “assume” means “make an ass out of you and me”. Without clear guidelines the donations there are very unclear.

The other link to donate for the care of Nadya’s children by Angels in Waiting is a bit harder to find unless you want to ask Dr. Phil, Nadya’s new representative of sorts who brokered the NEW deal being offered by AIW (the first offer involved the preemies going up to Lake Arrowhead to a “house” that had/or was going to be secured by AIW, a house NO reporter took the time to go see to check out) which involves AIW coming to Nadya.

First you must know to go to Dr. Phil’s WEBSITE.

Then you must have the smarts to know that you should click The Doctor Phil Foundation.

Once you reach there you then see a nice box with Nadya’s picture in it that you must CLICK.

Then you have to read down to LINK to Angels in Waiting.

Wait a minute. That’s a totally different page for donations than the one off the front of the Angels in Waiting website and it doesn’t mention the octuplets either!

Lucky for the donor, THIS link to donate for the care of Nadya’s children accessed directly from Dr. Phil’s website gives you quite a few ways to donate to Angels in Waiting. They are very curious indeed, because a few of them depend on the donor’s death to benefit Angels in Waiting. Is that going to be occurring to donors who want to help the octuplets any time soon? Let’s hope not. In other words, the scope of several of the donation possibilities there go well beyond the time Angels in Waiting will be servicing Nadya’s children, ESPECIALLY if the cash doesn’t flow in to pay the nurses SOON and CONTINUOSLY through DONATIONS.

So let’s recap before going further, an organization, Angels in Waiting, who did not have the necessary funds on hand themselves to pay for the care they were offering, tried to contact Nadya through Kaiser and her website. When they heard Gloria Allred had filed a complaint against Nadya, they contacted Gloria Allred who then went public with a plan to rescue the octuplets which in small print depended entirely on donations as the media later scorned Nadya for turning down the offer. Then Nadya relented when Dr. Phil stepped in to broker a new deal which would bring Angels in Waiting to her rather than having the preemies or her, or whoever, relocate to the “house”

The deal that Dr. Phil brokered was signed on air (the full legal documents of course are elsewhere), “The Declaration of Principles“. Number VII concerns the financial aspect of the deal between Nadya and AIW. It reads:

In the event that Nadya and Angels in Waiting are no longer working together all donations that have not been utilized shall be utilized for the support of other high risk infants who Angels in Waiting deem are in need of such care.

As it turns out, this is only true it Nadya pulls out of the deal. However, “are no longer working together” could mean that the cash donations are not coming in to cover the cost of the nursing care. What about the cash out on donations such as bank accounts upon death that materialize later. Who gets those? I haven’t seen the full legal contract as it was written so I can’t say but these are little details that haven’t been made public.

One must also remember that Gloria Allred is legal council for Angels in Waiting now. Whereas she filed a complaint against Nadya, she is now representing the organization that offered “$135,000 in wrap around care” which depended on DONATIONS to provide. Now we are seeing Angels in Waiting’s “offer’s” wings being sheared down. What happened to all the desperation for so much care needed? Note also, when the $135,000 price tag was put on the “care needed” this was entirely based on what ANGEL’S IN WAITING said was necessary.

Now, I have NO PROBLEM donating to a charity which helps innocent at-risk babies.  And I don’t even have a problem with someone stepping in and helping the octuplets…after all, somebody has to do it.  It’s clear that Nadya is in no shape to do it on her own; she can barely function in reality herself, the grandparents are exhausted, and there are innocent children involved in this mess.

What I do have a problem with is when the path of the donations and the use of the donations is unclear.  Any reputable charity will clearly have spelled out where the money goes, and to whom.  There are clear guidelines in place.  And that beggars another question…if AIW only had about $5000 last year, who is paying for nursing care for other at-risk infants?  If they can’t raise enough money for this one case, how have they been working with other infants?

Finally, in a clip on Radar Online, Nadya witters something I found interesting, said with a downcast look on her face as she conveniently holds a baby and talks about the pap swarm outside:

I guess I realize now that my life is a little different, and that I have to be really cautious.

Orly.  And the deals you’ve signed that have netted you the money you need for these babies fall under “really cautious”.  I have a feeling Nadya is going to quickly find out that you can’t alternately play the media and then scream about privacy.  In a world of blogs and 24/7 worldwide news and parents whoring out their children on reality shows for fame and fortune, you’d think she would have thought of that before now.

Way to go, Nadya.  You’ve just ensured that all your children are now paparazzi targets.

Source: k