Baby switched at birth at Sibley

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Anonymous wrote:This was on Huff Po parents today. Op is obviously using it to try to promote a book or mommy blog or some other ridiculousness.

No one is denying that it shouldn't have happened. People on here are literally acting like a woman with AIDS breast-fed this baby. Just absurd.

Seriously, the OP is eating up this thread b/c she's a marketing machine (in addition to a crappy writer). However, I posted the rich bitch comment and I'm not a nurse at Sibley. Just someone who is disgusted with how the OP and her husband completely violated the privacy of women who had just given birth. Shame on them.

Wow. Well, your internet personal of "I'm from the wrong/poor side of the tracks and know how to call it" is boring, overplayed and stupid (as in sounds like a reality tv show from 10 years ago...). (1) As for her being "rich", there's nothing in the article that has to do with her being rich. This could easily have happened to any mother rich or poor and any mother would have trouble with this, regardless of money or class. The only reason you think she's rich is b/c you stalked her wedding photos and judged them. Weird, pitiful and jealous, which is why the other posters are calling you CRAZY JEALOUS. Also, reporters aren't rich. This woman seems middle class and maybe could afford her wedding and maybe is in debt for it. (2) Nothing in the article suggest she's a "bitch", unless you're the nurse that got in trouble and don't know how to say sorry or face your mistakes. In the article, the woman describes "panicking" after the hospital didn't bring the baby to her for over 2 hours and after she as told conflicting stories about where her baby had been and what had happened. I would be upset too and start imagining all kinds of worst-case senarios. If you READ the story, it's clear that to the author that her worry over Ebola is irrational and panic, and she never actually accused the other mother or woman of having Ebola or AIDS or anything like that. In fact, she says meeting the other woman was, basically, the only thing that happened all day to calm her down. So I just don't get your comments and you sound like you just enjoy making personal attacks... I thought maybe you were one of the nurses, which kinda explained your comments. But if you're not, you are just plain crazy and - how does Outkast say it? Oh yeah, "A bitch's bitch...just a bitch." And not a rich one either, the sad, poor kind...

She's a bad writer and really boring. I would not like to spend time with her in person. Exaggerates.

Just posted above in response to someone who asked if I was Karin. I'll repeat myself here. Who gives a flying fuck if you'd like to spend time with OP? What is that relevant to? Is this middle school? Are you motivated to post bc you have no friends and are sad? Please. Also, the writing is empirically decent - do you know how hard it is to be a professional journalist? Even if it sucked, how does that justify posting someone's wedding pictures and calling them an entitled rich bitch?

Who gives a flying fuck if you'd like people to withhold their impressions of her writing? Most people's consensus here was "yeah, Sibley did something wrong, yeah we should know about it, but this essay is a major dud." I don't suspect you are her, because she at least knows how to separate paragraphs, but do you know her or something? You seem pretty worked up for a neutral observer.

That was not the consensus.

[Anonymous]

This thread is highly entertaining. I'm eating dry cereal out of the box as i scroll through. Fun.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:"Who gives a flying fuck if you'd like people to withhold their impressions of her writing? Most people's consensus here was "yeah, Sibley did something wrong, yeah we should know about it, but this essay is a major dud." I don't suspect you are her, because she at least knows how to separate paragraphs, but do you know her or something? You seem pretty worked up for a neutral observer."

I'm not worked up. You are just such easy prey. Here's the recap: I basically called you pathetic bc you seem to think it's relevant to anyone who you want to be friends with. I've suggested you are boring and not creative in your remarks. All you seem to be able to do is adopt my language ("flying fuck"), which I'll take as a compliment, and your only retort to anything I've said is that I don't use sentence breaks? You don't identify an actual flaw with OPs work, rather you wine "other people didn't like it" bc all you can do is jump on the latest mommy-bashing thread. Thus (and for the conclusion, I'll give you a sentence break):

I'm declaring myself the winner of this one "Caroline!"

Wait, what? I'm not sure I'm the same PP you called pathetic (I wasn't the person who said rich bitch or anything about wouldn't want to be friends with her, etc.). My only point was that to criticize her writing is fair game - and that I agree that her writing makes her come off as overly dramatic. But lord woman, you completely flew off the handle about it - and both you and the OP need to learn that the way you say something is important, and can actually discredit the substance of what you're saying.

Oh ok, you had no comment other than that I should use sentence breaks. Ok grammar police of the blog, my mistake.

As far as criticizing her writing, I can't think of one honest criticism of her writing from this entire thread, although I'm not going back to check so feel free to remind me. She tells the story from first-person and acknowledges throughout the piece that she's panicking under the circumstances. Basically, the "criticisms of her writing" boil down to other mommies saying "I wouldn't be that panicked" and "if you think that's bad, just wait till you really have a reason to panic as a mother like I've had", which is just mommy-bashing. Let's not kid ourselves that it's an honest criticism of her writing style. It's dishonest, just like resorting to calling her a rich bitch or making any other personal attack. Sorry if I confused the two, but one is only slightly better than the other in my book and both deserve non-sunstantative responses bc they are themselves non-substantive and asinine.

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PP, you are way overly invested in defending the mommy blogger with the brief baby mixup. Why that is the case, I don't know. But consensus here (and this is only my second post, first one was many pages ago) is that the Wash Post piece was histrionic and obnoxious (e.g., the formula reference.) You don't agree, okay. But you're not going to convince everyone else who instinctively gave the piece an eyeroll that they were wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP, you are way overly invested in defending the mommy blogger with the brief baby mixup. Why that is the case, I don't know. But consensus here (and this is only my second post, first one was many pages ago) is that the Wash Post piece was histrionic and obnoxious (e.g., the formula reference.) You don't agree, okay. But you're not going to convince everyone else who instinctively gave the piece an eyeroll that they were wrong.

Again, this was not the consensus. (Not OP or either of the PPs involved in the imbroglio.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP, you are way overly invested in defending the mommy blogger with the brief baby mixup. Why that is the case, I don't know. But consensus here (and this is only my second post, first one was many pages ago) is that the Wash Post piece was histrionic and obnoxious (e.g., the formula reference.) You don't agree, okay. But you're not going to convince everyone else who instinctively gave the piece an eyeroll that they were wrong.

I'm the PP you're responding to. Sure, a loud, vocal, obnoxious minority got on a roll, but don't think they represent consensus. Seems like it's you (the now voice of reason from that group), and the person that used the language "entitled rich bitch" and maybe another person who kept referring to the missing child sarcastically as a "previous snowflake". That minority deserves to take their kid to the ER or DR office and have the hospital or DR office lose their kid for a few hours and the members of that minority can practice what they preach and remain calm and never complain about what happened or wonder what terrible thing might have happened while their kid was missing. Wait, sound unrealistic to act that way as a parent? Oh yeah, bc that minority was happier to post asinine remarks and mommy bash. That group just wanted to dislike the OP. Admit it instead of pretending like you were interested in literary criticism. Bitch please.

[jsteele]

I believe this thread has served its purpose and it is time to put it to rest.