Wow is all I can say.
I was really into following the story of this 20 something pregnant mother of a baby that was diagnosed with some genetic disorders and the mom decided not to terminate and to have a home birth....well I spent a few minutes each night praying for them, it was so sad, and looked forward to her updates every day hoping for a miracle for them. When the baby was supposedly born last Sunday and was alive and then was slowly perishing...I was devastated, then I opened the blog the following morning and there was a post from the supposed "dad" that they were getting death threats and that someone had sent them a modified picture of their baby with devil horns and they were no longer updating, and then they deleted the Twitter account....and I was just left angry at the people who would do such things.....then my friend told me about this article.
Blogger Baby a Hoax
I'm just so distraught and upset over this, I'm too hormonal for this kind of thing, and definitely have learned a lesson about believing what you read....wow.
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I'm sorry you fell for it Anna! Some people will truly do anything for attention!
My dad gave me good advice, "Don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see"
Thanks for summarizing it all. I read a newspaper article on it, but it wasn't very well-written. WOW I can't believe the family did this. Horrendous.
Sounds creepy...and yet totally unsurprising for the internet world.
There's a book out there...I forgot the name, but essentially it's about how the internet has fostered a 'culture of the amateur', where people with no talent, legitimacy, credentials (or tact, for that matter) can build a devoted following and fool throngs of us. It's gross!
wow. I just dont understand why somebody would do that.
Yeah I read about this and it linked to a post she put on her blog apologizing and claiming that it was because she'd had a hard life or something like that. Don't feel bad for praying though - Faith is never 'wasted' - there are babies & families out there going through that and I'm sure that your Prayers did them good. It's better to Pray and find out later that your Praryers weren't needed than to not Pray and later know that your Prayers could have done good.
I just hope that that lady and whomever else as in on this with her get some help for whatever problems they obviously have to be able to pull this over on so many people.
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