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My mother’s friends is 3 months pregnant.

She’s 31 years old and has just confessed that she is using drugs, cocaine in particular.

Can anybody tell me what effects using these drugs will have on her baby?

I would like to get some info for them,her parents have already taken her to a counselor but being a mom myself if worries me what can happen to her baby.

No i do not know her well enough to take her to my doctors my mom called me and told me to look up on the internet and i ended up here,this is serious, thank you for the responses so far.

As for the baby being taken away,we live in Canada and our stupid government seems to let hookers keep there babies if they are addicted,it is just stupid!

This girl is a decent women for the most part,this came as quite a shock.

I’m pretty much the most awful human being you can imagine and all I think of is jumping off of a building or laying down on railroad tracks. I hate myself.
Not really a question, I just don’t have anyone in my life to bounce ideas off of.
This is the most honest communication of any kind I have made in the past 3 or 4 years.

youngest son had nothing to do with father and is drug addict. oldest son and wife took care of father while dying and have been the only ones there throughout everything. kids are now in their 30′s. she is trying to attack the estate.
this is in the state of Florida

If someone was an infant, and they’re parents divorced because the mother was a drug addict, in what ways could that effect the development and behavior of the child as if gets older?

This is going be long, but please bare with me because I’m a very private person; she has no siblings, and this is the best way I can get advice anonymously. It all started last year .. my Grandmother, my mom’s mom and only remaining parent. , was diagnosed with terminal cancer of the stomach, they gave her 6 months… my mom followed her and stayed with her. Around that time, my mom has a gambling habit and during the time she was caring for her ailing mother, she was gambling and needed money and bugged my estranged half – brother for money she had given him for my grandmother’s treatment back. He got infuriated and assaulted her which resulted in hematoma and what they call raccoon eyes, that’s when there’s internal bleeding show up like bruises encircling the eyes. In July when my grandmother loss her fight with cancer…by October we find out my father has been cheating on her for over a year or so… and had basically saving up everything he was making for the other girl… he even paid for the girl’s nursing school. My mom was/is devastated, within 3 days he attempted to have my mom relinquish rights to his 401k, which she did, I wasn’t around and my brother is too stupid to understand the vocabulary.. and she believed his lies when he told her that he was not going to return to the other girl, when just the other night the whole immediate family got the other girl on the phone and for him to tell her that he was never going to see her again… he couldn’t. When the checked from his 401k, us not knowing, he told my mother that he was going to the other woman. I wasn’t around. When arrived.. I gave him a piece of my mind and he assaulted me. We called the cops and we haven’t seen him since. Now, he’s trying to prevent my mom from getting the money and now does not want it in lump sum… when he did initially.. according to the courts. My during these have been hanging around the wrong crowd and I believe she is under the influence…. she doesn’t seem to listen to either brother or me and no longer lives with us…. she comes and goes and seems to be meandering from house of friends…..I just don’t know what to do… I’m going to school for nursing and working…. I just don’t know what to do.

She is addicted to pills and alcohol. In fact she is living with me now because she lost her home, her side of the family won’t talk to her, she can’t take care of herself or her son. She has scoliosis , liver didease, and a lot of other problems due to her drug abuse over the past 20 plus years. She looks like a zombie and has memory loss. She constantly complains about back pain and how she can’t do stuff. Well, I’ve been watching her for the past week sort of like a secret agent and have noticed that she is playing my wife and I for a fool. I caught her looking through my cabinets for alcohol and medication. My wife just bought her medication from the pharmacy that was supposed to last a week but she ate it all in two days. Then she turned around and said she don’t remember. So this is my idea and I want you to give me some input. I want to buy a pack of lemon heads and red hots and place them in one of my medicine containers. I’ll place them on the top shelf in the pantry.
At 5 O’clock, I’ll wake up with the camera and hide in the hallway for her to sneek some pills. When she takes them, I’ll take a picture of her. I bet she’ll freak out. Then I can make copies and place them all over the house. You see, she has been in and out of hospitals for the last few years with no insurance and free loads off the government. I personally don’t like her but my wife in sensitive and weak around her. I am harsh and direct. I know this woman needs help but it just makes me angry that she has the nerve to go through my bedroom to snoop around when I’m not home so she can find something to get high on. The strongest thing she’ll find is tylenol or antacid tablets. Anyway, what do you think of my idea?
Oh by the way, when my wife is awake, she says she can’t walk.
To TJSLOU or whatever. She has been in hospitals a few times times and now nobody will take her. She has no insurance and she hasn’t had a job in over 20 years. Well, she did have a job for a few months after she lived with me the last time, which was three years ago. She lived with me for 9 months without paying rent or helping with the food. She has over $30,000 in her bank account so she can’t get medicaid. In order for her to go to rehab without her overdosing again, she has to agree to do it but she refuses. So what do I do? I just want to live my life without my family members mooching off of me. My sister in law also lived with me twice but at least she got a job and she managed to do it with three kids.
Some of you don’t get it. She is able to talk on my phone to her druggy boyfriend on my phone hours on end. She calls hers son an a-hole and every name in the book. I’m sure that a silly joke won’t make much difference in her lifestyle. What is she going to do? Call the police and tell them I took a picture of her digging in my pantry. As far as I know, that is perfectly legal.

My ex partners mother is addicted to drugs and she is an alcoholic and has been for years. The drugs she is addicted to are speed and possibly crack coacaine. I live in uk so any advice would appreciated, i am at a loose end as my daughter is at risk of coming in to contact with drugs.

Ok so my mother in law is 47 years old and she just gave birth to her 6th child in May her 5th child in 2007 and her 4th in 2003 and the rest were when she was in her 20s. After the 2007 baby her current husband thought it would be best is she got her tubes tied so she went to have the procedure done(she told me and my hubby that the doctor wasn’t successful with the operation and 1 tube was still functional). Well in 2008 she was pregnant again and made me call her obgyn to tell him she was out of the country(which she wasn’t) so she couldn’t go back to have the doctor take care of the other tube. Her husband was very angry that she had gotten pregnant again. After the baby she just had the doctor forced her to come in the finalize the operation so her tubes are gone! Well here’s where I get angry my hubby(her eldest son) and I have finally decided to try and conceive our first baby so as my hubby and I were talking to her about how excited we were to try for our first child and she interrupts and says she thinks she might be pregnant AGAIN!! So I am furious I had to walk out of the room. What do you guys think?
Don’t get me wrong I love my mother in law, but her crave for attention is driving me up the wall!! She “faints” all the time when people argue with her. And she can’t even take care of the little ones she has. I understand it’s not all about me, but I think I should be able to get pregnant without being pregnant with my mother in law.
Thank you for all your really good answers…I feel a little better now. The reason why Im furious is because when my hubby and I were telling her how excited we were she interrupted to tell us that she thinks she might be pregnant again, but she had her tubes completely removed!