A mother’s loss made her an anti-vaccination star. But vaccines didn’t kill her baby.

144 points by raphaellaskies 3 hours ago on reddit | 21 comments

recycledpaper | 2 hours ago

"safely co slept" but drank alcohol before she coslept...not part of the safe cosleeping guidelines. I'm not against cosleeping but man, talk about blaming everyone but yourself for your poor decision.

SlowerThanTurtleInPB | 48 minutes ago

That last sentence seems to be the trend these days. No accountability.

ulknehs | 3 hours ago

What a sad and sickening story.

alexjpg | 2 hours ago

Yeah it’s like the mom can’t accept the guilt that she (accidentally) killed her own daughter so she’s putting the blame elsewhere. But drinking and then co-sleeping with your infant is a recipe for disaster.

ulknehs | 2 hours ago

I understand that she needs an external cause of death because for her to have contributed would be unbearable. I have a 17m old and I can't imagine being able to keep going if he died, let alone if I had been responsible. The guilt she feels must be extreme; not drinking alcohol is like co-sleeping 101.

It's sad, though, that she is contributing to a movement that has the potential to seriously harm and kill many more children.

GamersReisUp | 2 hours ago

And now Mama Bear of the Year™ here is trying to massage her ego, hide her guilt, and make $$$ by getting as many other kids as possible killed/maimed. Frankly, she should feel horrible, because she did kill her kid through her own negligence, and the whole problem is that she's too much of a coward to accept the cold fact that she deserves to feel like shit. (You probably shouldn't cosleep with your baby, and you definitely shouldn't flop on top of your baby after guzzling Jack Daniels! Oh, how could this outcome ever have been foreseen, alas poor little dear!) Had she not been a "respectable" class white lady, she would have very likely landed in jail, for god's sake.

My sympathy machine is completely out of service for her; I'm just so tired of this expectation to constantly reassure and hold the hands of people who dedicate themselves to constantly spitting in everyone else's faces, and making the world a more miserable place for us all

Badonkachonky | 2 hours ago

She accidentally killed her own child and wants to blame vaccines. I want to put up a billboard next to hers with this information.

walkinginhoney | an hour ago

So she:

  1. Put her 6 month old in a regular bed
  2. Got drunk and went to sleep
  3. Suffocated her baby in her sleep and admitted to it to first responders

And somehow is trying to turn this into a vaccination caused thing???

copyrighther | 33 minutes ago

Trauma-induced psychosis

Powerful_Leg8519 | 2 hours ago

This is ridiculous.

She was breastfeeding then has a whiskey and accidentally smothered her daughter in her sleep. She caused her daughter’s death.

kjlpfal55 | 2 hours ago

I’ve seen this groups business cards innocently sitting in bathrooms. Always make sure to toss them.

Ambitious-Morning795 | 2 hours ago

Gross.

whenindoubtfreakmout | 2 hours ago

People have thrown their brains out the window.

Comfortable_Style_51 | 2 hours ago

My SIL buys this lady’s story hook, line, and sinker.

kerouaces | an hour ago

If she drank alcohol before sleeping, she did not follow co sleeping safety guidelines. I personally don’t co sleep and I don’t know much about it, but I know that if you’re gonna do it you should follow the basic rules for it.

trolllante | 26 minutes ago

My grandma was born in Brazil in 1924. Many vaccines didn’t exist, or if they did, they weren’t covered by the government. They became more prevalent in the 60’s.

Anyway, her best friend got tuberculosis and died when they were in their early 20’s. To her death at age 84, my grandma grieved her friend's death and all the beauty that the lady could have done with her life. A totally preventable death with vaccines.

Istoh | an hour ago

Knew this was about Catie Clobes before I even opened it. Ugh.

letthetreeburn | 32 minutes ago

Murderer.

Commercial-Spinach93 | 10 minutes ago

So she killed her own child by being negligent and now wants to kill other babies. OK.