Britney Spears pregnant with 3rd child

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Anonymous wrote:Do her meds (I assume she's on meds given her bipolar, anxiety, and anything else she has) make viable pregnancy possible? A lit of the side effects from those prescriptions have a long list of warnings about conceiving.

She has bipolar disorder?

No. The internet is diagnosing her. This thread is disgusting.

She discussed the side effects of being on Lithium. This is the primary medication to control manic episodes in bipolar.

She was FORCED to take it AND pay for medical treatment against her will. Sorry, until *she* publicly claims she has bipolar it's completely wrong to diagnose her.

I'm sure her dad was up in her business saying she was acting bipolar, and if the psychiatrist was a friend or friend of friend (like her attorney was to the judge) or just a quack then all bets are off.

She would be one of countless others who have been given meds for the wrong condition.

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Anonymous wrote:Do her meds (I assume she's on meds given her bipolar, anxiety, and anything else she has) make viable pregnancy possible? A lit of the side effects from those prescriptions have a long list of warnings about conceiving.

She has bipolar disorder?

No. The internet is diagnosing her. This thread is disgusting.

She discussed the side effects of being on Lithium. This is the primary medication to control manic episodes in bipolar.

She was FORCED to take it AND pay for medical treatment against her will. Sorry, until *she* publicly claims she has bipolar it's completely wrong to diagnose her.

I'm sure her dad was up in her business saying she was acting bipolar, and if the psychiatrist was a friend or friend of friend (like her attorney was to the judge) or just a quack then all bets are off.

She would be one of countless others who have been given meds for the wrong condition.

+1 This happens all the time and the wrong medication can cause people to seriously spiral out of control. A family member was misdiagnosed as bipolar and the medication caused a lot of chaos until it was corrected.

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I don’t know if I believe she is even pregnant. She is clearly very mentally unstable. This us something she might make up.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know if I believe she is even pregnant. She is clearly very mentally unstable. This us something she might make up.

She has been 100% clear that she wants a baby. So I don't see why not.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know if I believe she is even pregnant. She is clearly very mentally unstable. This us something she might make up.

She has been 100% clear that she wants a baby. So I don't see why not.

No way this woman is mentally fit to raise a child. Her Instagram posts are scary. She acts like a child herself. So very sad.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know if I believe she is even pregnant. She is clearly very mentally unstable. This us something she might make up.

She has been 100% clear that she wants a baby. So I don't see why not.

No way this woman is mentally fit to raise a child. Her Instagram posts are scary. She acts like a child herself. So very sad. [/quottey]

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Anonymous wrote:I feel sorry for the poster above who has gone down a bunny hole of conspiracy theories.

Britney Spears originally VOLUNTARILY entered into the conservatorship, and while she wanted her speeches about her father and criticizing the terms of her conservatorship public, she consistently asked the court to mask her actual diagnosis and treatment record from public view. This is not just because she has an affinity for HIPAA, but because she doesn’t want the #freebritney people to know just how mentally ill she is.

I fear we are about to see her meltdown again as she’s already exhibited in recent social media how manic she is much of the time, and pregnancy and post partum are likely to really knock her hormones and moods out of the park.

I don’t wish her ill, but I do think people with major mental illness that is highly heritable should think twice and three, four, five, etc. times about bringing a child into this world, no matter how much money they have to support them. Major mental illness can be very hellish to endure, even with lots of wealth to cushion the pain. I wish she’d considered focusing on her mental health but I’m sure the fiancé wanted the lock on two decades of support.

She agreed to it because her family threatened to take away her kids otherwise. I feel sad for how many women think their family and the courts will protect you.

I’m a former family law attorney and a former prosecutor who handled child removal cases AND involuntary commitment proceedings.

Britney’s parents did not have the power to take her kids away from her absent her having a serious, debilitating mental illness. Britney had plenty of money to hire skilled attorneys when all this first happened back in the day. So she is either a total idiot, which her fans insist she is not, or she is in fact seriously mentally ill. Yes sometimes conservatorships are abused and/or are abusive, but that fact doesn’t equate to Britney’s being either. The court scrutinized her conservatorship regularly and she NEVER ASKED FOR IT TO BE REMOVED. Is that because she’s an idiot? Or because she was to busy being seriously mentally ill to make effective arguments that she should be let loose on the world without any guidance and/or requirement for mental health treatment?

We will all see, I have no doubt, what the answer turns out to be. Thus far since being ‘freed’ from her conservatorship, Britney’s public actions re: social media haven’t been the best evidence of a stable mind. In her objections to her conservatorship she railed against the requirements that she attend regular therapy, so one can only assume she’s quit that since she was ‘set free.’ Let’s see how she manages pregnancy and post partum without benefit of a therapeutic relationship with a mental health provider. Maybe it will all go swimmingly - I certainly don’t wish her to fail, as that just means another baby struggling with a mother who doesn’t fully participate in bonding which will only exacerbate the genetic tendency the baby will have for developing mental illness itself.

Your credentials don’t bar you from being an idiot for opining on something you clearly don’t know anything about. Britney had a court appointed attorney. One who was friends with the judge at the time, who was guaranteed a monthly salary. Can you please explain why that person would advocate to terminate? Do you know the ACLU filed an amicus brief to support Britney being allowed to hire her own attorney? Her financial co-conservator stepped down saying that them staying involved would cause Britney irreparable harm, which is when the tide started to turn.

It was also reported when the conservatorship was first implemented that Britney’s phone was confiscated because she reached out to an attorney. She was not permitted to drive, could not make any health decisions, and had to perform against her will because she was not legally able to sign contracts.

Her fathers attorney was asked on tape, in The NY Times documentary, if she had ever seen a conservatorship terminated. No, was her answer.

Britney was clearly troubled, but disability and human rights activists prefer supported decision making agreements over conservatorships.

Besides, look at how biased you and so many op’s are. You think she’s mentally I’ll because of social media postings. Britney was the most profiled celebrity if all time at that point and the media made hundreds of millions off her being a “trainwreck.” How the hell was she supposed to get a fair trial? She may have been troubled, but the media, the courts, and her family failed her.

I understand the free Britney movement but I don’t understand how they can feel she is well enough to manage her own life. If nothing else, she has not lived as a functional adult - ever. Her ramblings don’t make sense. She barely has an education. She doesn’t know enough to know she needs support - not to pop out another kid with the first guy who pays her attention. This is the cycle of her life repeating itself and I will predict her implosion in a few years - plus a few kids unfortunately along for the ride.

Did I miss the part where in the United States only educated, productive adults are allowed to procreate? You may judge her ability to be a parent but she has the financial means and now she has the legal right to bear children if she wants. And so she will.

Of course she’s allowed to but it can also be a tragedy that she is having a child. That poor kid doesn’t stand a chance.

What a stupid comment. Very successful parents have rotten kids and vice versa. This kid will have financial resources and parents who at the very least seem loving. You don’t need to be such a hater on a baby that hasn’t even been born yet. Why don’t you look at Ukraine so you can get a perspective on what a tragedy is. A woman happy to have a baby is certainly not a tragedy.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel sorry for the poster above who has gone down a bunny hole of conspiracy theories.

Britney Spears originally VOLUNTARILY entered into the conservatorship, and while she wanted her speeches about her father and criticizing the terms of her conservatorship public, she consistently asked the court to mask her actual diagnosis and treatment record from public view. This is not just because she has an affinity for HIPAA, but because she doesn’t want the #freebritney people to know just how mentally ill she is.

I fear we are about to see her meltdown again as she’s already exhibited in recent social media how manic she is much of the time, and pregnancy and post partum are likely to really knock her hormones and moods out of the park.

I don’t wish her ill, but I do think people with major mental illness that is highly heritable should think twice and three, four, five, etc. times about bringing a child into this world, no matter how much money they have to support them. Major mental illness can be very hellish to endure, even with lots of wealth to cushion the pain. I wish she’d considered focusing on her mental health but I’m sure the fiancé wanted the lock on two decades of support.

She agreed to it because her family threatened to take away her kids otherwise. I feel sad for how many women think their family and the courts will protect you.

I’m a former family law attorney and a former prosecutor who handled child removal cases AND involuntary commitment proceedings.

Britney’s parents did not have the power to take her kids away from her absent her having a serious, debilitating mental illness. Britney had plenty of money to hire skilled attorneys when all this first happened back in the day. So she is either a total idiot, which her fans insist she is not, or she is in fact seriously mentally ill. Yes sometimes conservatorships are abused and/or are abusive, but that fact doesn’t equate to Britney’s being either. The court scrutinized her conservatorship regularly and she NEVER ASKED FOR IT TO BE REMOVED. Is that because she’s an idiot? Or because she was to busy being seriously mentally ill to make effective arguments that she should be let loose on the world without any guidance and/or requirement for mental health treatment?

We will all see, I have no doubt, what the answer turns out to be. Thus far since being ‘freed’ from her conservatorship, Britney’s public actions re: social media haven’t been the best evidence of a stable mind. In her objections to her conservatorship she railed against the requirements that she attend regular therapy, so one can only assume she’s quit that since she was ‘set free.’ Let’s see how she manages pregnancy and post partum without benefit of a therapeutic relationship with a mental health provider. Maybe it will all go swimmingly - I certainly don’t wish her to fail, as that just means another baby struggling with a mother who doesn’t fully participate in bonding which will only exacerbate the genetic tendency the baby will have for developing mental illness itself.

Your credentials don’t bar you from being an idiot for opining on something you clearly don’t know anything about. Britney had a court appointed attorney. One who was friends with the judge at the time, who was guaranteed a monthly salary. Can you please explain why that person would advocate to terminate? Do you know the ACLU filed an amicus brief to support Britney being allowed to hire her own attorney? Her financial co-conservator stepped down saying that them staying involved would cause Britney irreparable harm, which is when the tide started to turn.

It was also reported when the conservatorship was first implemented that Britney’s phone was confiscated because she reached out to an attorney. She was not permitted to drive, could not make any health decisions, and had to perform against her will because she was not legally able to sign contracts.

Her fathers attorney was asked on tape, in The NY Times documentary, if she had ever seen a conservatorship terminated. No, was her answer.

Britney was clearly troubled, but disability and human rights activists prefer supported decision making agreements over conservatorships.

Besides, look at how biased you and so many op’s are. You think she’s mentally I’ll because of social media postings. Britney was the most profiled celebrity if all time at that point and the media made hundreds of millions off her being a “trainwreck.” How the hell was she supposed to get a fair trial? She may have been troubled, but the media, the courts, and her family failed her.

I understand the free Britney movement but I don’t understand how they can feel she is well enough to manage her own life. If nothing else, she has not lived as a functional adult - ever. Her ramblings don’t make sense. She barely has an education. She doesn’t know enough to know she needs support - not to pop out another kid with the first guy who pays her attention. This is the cycle of her life repeating itself and I will predict her implosion in a few years - plus a few kids unfortunately along for the ride.

Did I miss the part where in the United States only educated, productive adults are allowed to procreate? You may judge her ability to be a parent but she has the financial means and now she has the legal right to bear children if she wants. And so she will.

Of course she’s allowed to but it can also be a tragedy that she is having a child. That poor kid doesn’t stand a chance.

What a stupid comment. Very successful parents have rotten kids and vice versa. This kid will have financial resources and parents who at the very least seem loving. You don’t need to be such a hater on a baby that hasn’t even been born yet. Why don’t you look at Ukraine so you can get a perspective on what a tragedy is. A woman happy to have a baby is certainly not a tragedy.

I agree, she's happy so we should be happy for her!

Let's save our pity for when she drowns it in the tub.

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While I'm very happy that Britney is happy (she deserves it after what she has been through) I can never be excited about a child being born under circumstances like this.

My mom also had a very difficult life, with abusive parents. She really wanted to be a mom and was thrilled to have me and my siblings. And she was a pretty bad mom to us.

What I learned as an adult is that while your childhood trauma isn't your fault, you have a responsibility to address it. It's frustrating. My childhood trauma was caused by my parents' childhood trauma. It wasn't my fault and in a way it wasn't theirs either. And yet there it is.

I think it would have been better for her to take more time (out of the public eye) to process what happened to her and come to terms with it, and then either try to conceive (with money, you can conceive very late and have a healthy baby) or go the surrogate or adoption route. Is this "fair" to Britney? No, none of this is fair to her. But in choosing to have this baby now, she is making it very likely that she will be dealing with past trauma while trying to parent a young child. Even with money, this is bad for the child. So waiting and addressing her own issue first would be most fair to the child. And that's whose needs have to be paramount in this situation because they are completely powerless.

Life is deeply unfair but having a baby doesn't solve that, it just kicks the can down the road. I wound up in therapy/recovery for twenty years before being very fortunate to have one very wanted child in my 40s. Every day I am grateful to my younger self, and my therapist, for doing the work then so that I can be the parent I want to be now.

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Anonymous wrote:A grown woman can’t have a baby now without all you harpies picking her apart?

When you're a celeb you forfeit privacy and are subject to be fresh meat for social media criticism. That's part of being rich and famous

you say that like she signed up for it and wasn’t pushed into it as a child by a family that then stripped her of her rights as an adult to maintain control of the fortune she made them. she’s done nothing in the past few years to indicate she has any desire to continue pursuing fame.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel sorry for the poster above who has gone down a bunny hole of conspiracy theories.

Britney Spears originally VOLUNTARILY entered into the conservatorship, and while she wanted her speeches about her father and criticizing the terms of her conservatorship public, she consistently asked the court to mask her actual diagnosis and treatment record from public view. This is not just because she has an affinity for HIPAA, but because she doesn’t want the #freebritney people to know just how mentally ill she is.

I fear we are about to see her meltdown again as she’s already exhibited in recent social media how manic she is much of the time, and pregnancy and post partum are likely to really knock her hormones and moods out of the park.

I don’t wish her ill, but I do think people with major mental illness that is highly heritable should think twice and three, four, five, etc. times about bringing a child into this world, no matter how much money they have to support them. Major mental illness can be very hellish to endure, even with lots of wealth to cushion the pain. I wish she’d considered focusing on her mental health but I’m sure the fiancé wanted the lock on two decades of support.

She agreed to it because her family threatened to take away her kids otherwise. I feel sad for how many women think their family and the courts will protect you.

I’m a former family law attorney and a former prosecutor who handled child removal cases AND involuntary commitment proceedings.

Britney’s parents did not have the power to take her kids away from her absent her having a serious, debilitating mental illness. Britney had plenty of money to hire skilled attorneys when all this first happened back in the day. So she is either a total idiot, which her fans insist she is not, or she is in fact seriously mentally ill. Yes sometimes conservatorships are abused and/or are abusive, but that fact doesn’t equate to Britney’s being either. The court scrutinized her conservatorship regularly and she NEVER ASKED FOR IT TO BE REMOVED. Is that because she’s an idiot? Or because she was to busy being seriously mentally ill to make effective arguments that she should be let loose on the world without any guidance and/or requirement for mental health treatment?

We will all see, I have no doubt, what the answer turns out to be. Thus far since being ‘freed’ from her conservatorship, Britney’s public actions re: social media haven’t been the best evidence of a stable mind. In her objections to her conservatorship she railed against the requirements that she attend regular therapy, so one can only assume she’s quit that since she was ‘set free.’ Let’s see how she manages pregnancy and post partum without benefit of a therapeutic relationship with a mental health provider. Maybe it will all go swimmingly - I certainly don’t wish her to fail, as that just means another baby struggling with a mother who doesn’t fully participate in bonding which will only exacerbate the genetic tendency the baby will have for developing mental illness itself.

Your credentials don’t bar you from being an idiot for opining on something you clearly don’t know anything about. Britney had a court appointed attorney. One who was friends with the judge at the time, who was guaranteed a monthly salary. Can you please explain why that person would advocate to terminate? Do you know the ACLU filed an amicus brief to support Britney being allowed to hire her own attorney? Her financial co-conservator stepped down saying that them staying involved would cause Britney irreparable harm, which is when the tide started to turn.

It was also reported when the conservatorship was first implemented that Britney’s phone was confiscated because she reached out to an attorney. She was not permitted to drive, could not make any health decisions, and had to perform against her will because she was not legally able to sign contracts.

Her fathers attorney was asked on tape, in The NY Times documentary, if she had ever seen a conservatorship terminated. No, was her answer.

Britney was clearly troubled, but disability and human rights activists prefer supported decision making agreements over conservatorships.

Besides, look at how biased you and so many op’s are. You think she’s mentally I’ll because of social media postings. Britney was the most profiled celebrity if all time at that point and the media made hundreds of millions off her being a “trainwreck.” How the hell was she supposed to get a fair trial? She may have been troubled, but the media, the courts, and her family failed her.

I understand the free Britney movement but I don’t understand how they can feel she is well enough to manage her own life. If nothing else, she has not lived as a functional adult - ever. Her ramblings don’t make sense. She barely has an education. She doesn’t know enough to know she needs support - not to pop out another kid with the first guy who pays her attention. This is the cycle of her life repeating itself and I will predict her implosion in a few years - plus a few kids unfortunately along for the ride.

Did I miss the part where in the United States only educated, productive adults are allowed to procreate? You may judge her ability to be a parent but she has the financial means and now she has the legal right to bear children if she wants. And so she will.

Of course she’s allowed to but it can also be a tragedy that she is having a child. That poor kid doesn’t stand a chance.

What a stupid comment. Very successful parents have rotten kids and vice versa. This kid will have financial resources and parents who at the very least seem loving. You don’t need to be such a hater on a baby that hasn’t even been born yet. Why don’t you look at Ukraine so you can get a perspective on what a tragedy is. A woman happy to have a baby is certainly not a tragedy.

I agree, she's happy so we should be happy for her!

Let's save our pity for when she drowns it in the tub.

Aren’t you a peach? There’s no evidence that she’s a danger to her kids and she’s certainly got financial resources to hire quality caregivers as Nannies.

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Oh lord, what a mess.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know if I believe she is even pregnant. She is clearly very mentally unstable. This us something she might make up.

She has been 100% clear that she wants a baby. So I don't see why not.

No way this woman is mentally fit to raise a child. Her Instagram posts are scary. She acts like a child herself. So very sad.

She’s been treated like a child by her conservatorship and the law since she was mid-20s. The way she acts is not surprising.

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Anonymous wrote:While I'm very happy that Britney is happy (she deserves it after what she has been through) I can never be excited about a child being born under circumstances like this.

My mom also had a very difficult life, with abusive parents. She really wanted to be a mom and was thrilled to have me and my siblings. And she was a pretty bad mom to us.

What I learned as an adult is that while your childhood trauma isn't your fault, you have a responsibility to address it. It's frustrating. My childhood trauma was caused by my parents' childhood trauma. It wasn't my fault and in a way it wasn't theirs either. And yet there it is.

I think it would have been better for her to take more time (out of the public eye) to process what happened to her and come to terms with it, and then either try to conceive (with money, you can conceive very late and have a healthy baby) or go the surrogate or adoption route. Is this "fair" to Britney? No, none of this is fair to her. But in choosing to have this baby now, she is making it very likely that she will be dealing with past trauma while trying to parent a young child. Even with money, this is bad for the child. So waiting and addressing her own issue first would be most fair to the child. And that's whose needs have to be paramount in this situation because they are completely powerless.

Life is deeply unfair but having a baby doesn't solve that, it just kicks the can down the road. I wound up in therapy/recovery for twenty years before being very fortunate to have one very wanted child in my 40s. Every day I am grateful to my younger self, and my therapist, for doing the work then so that I can be the parent I want to be now.

Plenty of bad mothers with or without past trauma. Just believing you’re a great mom doesn’t make you one. We have no idea if Britney will be a good mom, but she has the resources to ensure her kids are cared for and the child also has a father. The kid will be fine.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t know if I believe she is even pregnant. She is clearly very mentally unstable. This us something she might make up.

She has been 100% clear that she wants a baby. So I don't see why not.

No way this woman is mentally fit to raise a child. Her Instagram posts are scary. She acts like a child herself. So very sad.

She’s been treated like a child by her conservatorship and the law since she was mid-20s. The way she acts is not surprising.

It’s not surprising at all, but it certainly also means she is not fit to raise a child.