Britney/Brittany Sills Morrow, aka britneyandbaby, is an influencer/youtube mommy "lifestyle" vlogger. She's been in plenty of drama (divorce, Young Living, etc) but has mostly moved on to sponsorships and selling custom etched glasses with her husband Frank Morrow. View attachment 3512502
This is a pretty long video and not all of the information is correct, but it's worth skipping to 20:42 for the discussion about her son Nolan. Later it also discusses her exploiting her other childrens' injuries for her vlogs.
Britney's second-oldest child is named Nolan; he was born in 2014. He was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. This is a terminal genetic disorder; treatment has improved over time, but it's still rare for patients to live beyond their early 30s. View attachment 3512551
She proceeded to have another child with her partner at the time Ean (pronounced like Ian, just spelled dumb), and two more with her second husband Frank. Britney is the carrier for the mutated gene, meaning any of the three following children could have had DMD. The sex of their fifth and final child was allegedly a surprise until the birth. This is either a total lie for the audience or pure irresponsibility since DMD is almost exclusive to men. Their fifth child, Fletcher, ended up being male but thankfully did not have DMD. Carriers of DMD are also at higher risk of cardiomyopathy.
When Britney and Frank had their custom "dream home" built, there was nothing factored in about having a disabled child. If you are having everything in your home built, why would you build it to not be accessible for your own son? He is currently 7-8, so he will likely be needing a wheelchair within ~5 years. Britney's attitude towards disability is also pretty toxic ("Nolan isn't disabled because he's capable of so many things") but that's her problem.
There are some theories that Frank, who is apparently a traditional-leaning religious person, believes they can pray away Nolan's DMD.
Britney has also allegedly used Nolan's disability to scam money from her followers. She made merch, said all of the money would go to the Muscular Dystrophy Association, but there is some doubt. The MDA charity sent Britney a cease and desist to get her to stop the fundraising campaign.
Brittany said she would be no longer sharing about Nolan's health other than important updates to give him some privacy. Today she posted this video. Note the clickbait title for a very boring video.
I linked to a specific time where she's talking about Nolan needing a test. In the background, you can hear him saying "what test? what kind? will it hurt?" and her response is to tell him she will talk to him in a second. She does a dramatic sigh, like her child being nervous is a personal inconvenience. Immediately after that, she included something from where she was secretly recording a conversation with a doctor.
Britney might not be as bad as Hollie or Robyn, but the way she treats Nolan has always pissed me off.
DMD is both a nightmare and a death sentence. It's also important to note that it does NOT effect intelligence. This little boy is growing up knowing he is ill and that he will die young.
Spoilered because PL:
I had some training with a man with DMD - 35 years old.
Completely dependent, but could use his fingers enough to play video games on his computer. Ventilator and tracheostomy.
Intelligent, kind and patient enough to be a guinea pig for us learn endotracheal aspiration techniques. Essentially suctioning crap out of a tracheostomy.
The guy straight up let us shove a tube down his windpipe because it would help other people.
Cool guy. Probably dead now.
DMD is both a nightmare and a death sentence. It's also important to note that it does NOT effect intelligence. This little boy is growing up knowing he is ill and that he will die young.
I think this is a good place to put a little tard-baby-thread-reader reminder to CARPE THE FUCK OUT OF THE DIEM. Hop, skip, smile at babies, pet dogs, hug and kiss your loved ones. Run until your lungs burn because you can.
I'm sure you weren't dealt a perfect hand, but thank the good lord above you weren't dealt the hand of any of these <gestures at thread> people.
The nurses saying “he doesn’t like his right side” was definitely a flippant non-literal comment - caters and healthcare workers say things like this constantly when dealing with ill and dying people. Shit, even undertakers talk this way. She’s very dense and unable to discern literal comments/observations from analogies/metaphors/flippant comments
100% I have uttered that exact phrase many times. For me it roughly translates to "his arterial line waveform got all fucky after I turned him to his right side and now I'm not getting good readings, ugh I was JUST in there and now I have to reposition him AGAIN. But I feel bad for getting annoyed at this innocent inanimate creature so I'm going to project some human wants/preferences onto him." Doesn't make him any less of a potato though.
Would this be the right thread for discussing mommy vloggers who exploit their (non-tard) disabled kids for views?
I know of a woman who started as just a regular teen/young mom vlogger, years later she ended up having a son with a genetic disorder and facing a lot of backlash for not giving him (or her other kids) privacy with his health. She said she would stop talking so much about her kids' health and do better about respecting their privacy. For a while, she did. But her most recent video was all about her son's doctor appointment to update the viewers. She was talking to the camera about testing her son would need, you could hear him asking her questions about it and she just told him she would talk to him about it later. You'd think reassuring your child would be more of a priority than the camera, which will be there later.
Britney's second-oldest child is named Nolan; he was born in 2014. He was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. This is a terminal genetic disorder; treatment has improved over time, but it's still rare for patients to live beyond their early 30s.
Isn’t she the one who had another baby boy with her new husband, fully knowing that it’s an X linked inherited condition and she’s a carrier? Because boys get only one X chromosome, they are the ones who get DMD generally, while girls are possibly carriers. She had more daughters too, possibly carriers themselves. Having another boy who could have gotten the same awful, life limiting illness as his brother was reckless at best.
Isn’t she the one who had another baby boy with her new husband, fully knowing that it’s an X linked inherited condition and she’s a carrier? Because boys get only one X chromosome, they are the ones who get DMD generally, while girls are possibly carriers. She had more daughters too, possibly carriers themselves. Having another boy who could have gotten the same awful, life limiting illness as his brother was reckless at best.
This is especially true because of the age difference. If the younger son had been affected, he would watch his older brother decline in really horrifying, upsetting ways, and then get old enough to realize that all of the same things would happen to him. If the boys were closer in age, at least there would be some comfort for each of them to have the other.
It's a cruel thing to make a child watch his brother suffer, then tell him he will have to do the same thing in just a few years.
Isn’t she the one who had another baby boy with her new husband, fully knowing that it’s an X linked inherited condition and she’s a carrier? Because boys get only one X chromosome, they are the ones who get DMD generally, while girls are possibly carriers. She had more daughters too, possibly carriers themselves. Having another boy who could have gotten the same awful, life limiting illness as his brother was reckless at best.
Our neighbours child has a life limiting genetic condition found only in males, he needs quite serious medical care. She had another baby recently and was very open about wanting another boy, despite knowing there was this risk. It was bizarre
Our neighbours child has a life limiting genetic condition found only in males, he needs quite serious medical care. She had another baby recently and was very open about wanting another boy, despite knowing there was this risk. It was bizarre
Yep same with cultures where first cousin marriage is common. It’s been shown that this has led to a huge increase in genetic conditions, with some awful consequences. I’ve known cousins continue to have multiple affected children, surely you’d stop after one, perhaps 2. Or perhaps realise marrying off your children to your siblings children is not a great idea…
Yep same with cultures where first cousin marriage is common. It’s been shown that this has led to a huge increase in genetic conditions, with some awful consequences. I’ve known cousins continue to have multiple affected children, surely you’d stop after one, perhaps 2. Or perhaps realise marrying off your children to your siblings children is not a great idea…
I saw on tiktok some weird naming convention by an Australian aboriginal tribe to figure out who could marry who. Even way back when in buttfuck middle of nowhere they knew incest=bad.
(And then you get any type of royalty just going against the grain cause they feel superior but make themselves super spuds).
Our neighbours child has a life limiting genetic condition found only in males, he needs quite serious medical care. She had another baby recently and was very open about wanting another boy, despite knowing there was this risk. It was bizarre
Watching the court live was interesting to say the least and makes public interesting revelations why Mum wanted it private as it counteracts everything being kept from loyal supporters in the Archies Army support group.
Points stated in court were:
1.Family in court accept the medical findings and that Archie passed and has days and weeks left rather than months or years before the heart gives out even though it beats through mechanical intervention (yet the group are still being told he is in a coma,lives and needs more time).
2.Asked by judges and confirmed by their barrister that the work is still pro bono aka free (yet funds are still being raised with repeated tweaking of what the funds are being raised for, which now includes anything & everything despite that it was set up for legal & medical costs (both of which are free).
3.It reconvenes tomorrow at 10.30 am because the barrister is going round in circles raising points that are wasting the courts time & if they were granted the right to appeal then there would have been no time to hear it today.
It can be watched live on YouTube court 75 court of appeal civil division tomorrow morning at 10.30 am for anyone who would like to honour the little lad by hearing the truth & facts being discussed for his best interest and his only, which is most important rather than speculating without them.
Bless his little soul
Watching the court live was interesting to say the least and makes public interesting revelations why Mum wanted it private as it counteracts everything being kept from loyal supporters in the Archies Army support group.
Points stated in court were:
1.Family in court accept the medical findings and that Archie passed and has days and weeks left rather than months or years before the heart gives out even though it beats through mechanical intervention (yet the group are still being told he is in a coma,lives and needs more time).
2.Asked by judges and confirmed by their barrister that the work is still pro bono aka free (yet funds are still being raised with repeated tweaking of what the funds are being raised for, which now includes anything & everything despite that it was set up for legal & medical costs (both of which are free).
3.It reconvenes tomorrow at 10.30 am because the barrister is going round in circles raising points that are wasting the courts time & if they were granted the right to appeal then there would have been no time to hear it today.
It can be watched live on YouTube court 75 court of appeal civil division tomorrow morning at 10.30 am for anyone who would like to honour the little lad by hearing the truth & facts being discussed for his best interest and his only, which is most important rather than speculating without them.
Bless his little soul
THANK YOU! I was just in the dedicated thread asking if I had understood properly that the adjournment was in part because the plaintiffs' barrister was having a bit of an intellectual wander over ground that is not subject to appeal. If he weren't working for the cost of parking and paperclips, I'd accuse him of running up the bill.
The consanguineous marriage factor makes journal articles written by Saudi researchers absolutely fascinating, for what it's worth. Unlike a lot of other places with a highly consanguineous population, the Saudis have enough money and infrastructure to actually research and document all of the bizarre Tard Babies their countrymen produce. If you want a case report about some exceedingly rare genetic condition, start with stuff written by researchers in KSA.
I'll do a deep dive and present my findings to the class. Watch this space!
