Octomom fires free nursing agency, says she’ll hire her own nannies

Nadya Suleman
Single mother of octuplets Nadya Suleman brought 2 more of her babies home from the hospital on Saturday, to make a total of four out of eight newborns home along with six older children. La Habra police officers blocked off the street for Nadya and she was not met with with the firestorm of paparazzi that surrounded her when she brought the first two newborns home last week.

Fights with mother on camera – again
Nadya has a video up on RadarOnline which documents the babies’ homecoming. She poses with all four of the babies at home and introduces the two new arrivals, girls Maliyah and Nariyah, to their older siblings. Radar captured a nasty exchange between Nadya and her mother. Radar reports that the fight came to blows but I didn’t see any fists flying or hair pulling and it was more like some one-sided yelling from the grandmother.

It’s hard to tell what happened, as all we see is Angelina standing at the door yelling at her daughter. “You’re so disrespectful to me… and I got a ride from somebody and I will never come back lady.”

Nadya explained to the cameraman later that she doesn’t get along with her mother, and that she didn’t invite her over and was too busy to deal with her. “She’s very self absorbed, and if she doesn’t have the attention she wants… she’ll go off. I don’t want to surround myself with her negative energy. She’ll influence the kids negatively and that’s why I don’t want her around.”

Nadya’s mom cared for her children while she was pregnant in the hospital so maybe she should work out a way to get along with her. She may need the help too – she’s just fired the free 24/7 nursing service that agreed to care for her newborns.

Fires free Angels in Waiting service
Suleman has rejected the help of the Angels in Waiting service after working out a deal with them and making an announcement about it on the Dr. Phil show. She told RadarOnline that she will get her own nannies to help. She’s going to need a lot of them. Nadya initially declined the offer from the agency, saying she would get volunteer assistance from the parents at her childrens’ school. She then hashed out an agreement with them through opportunistic lawyer Gloria Allread and Dr. Phil. Suleman’s lawyer told E! Online that Nadya believed the Angels in Waiting founder had filed a report against her with the department of Social Services and that “Nadya felt that she was being judged wrongfully and she didn’t need it.”

Now this whole circus is going to go back on the Dr. Phil show, maybe today, with a follow-up episode about how the deal Phil helped broker for the childcare fell through. Nadya wants to go on the show to tell her side of the story and score some more cash for designer clothing.

Maybe Suleman will be able to hire her own nannies but she better stop going on spending sprees if she wants to be able to afford them. She probably figures she can always file for bankruptcy again once the money runs out.

911 call to remove attorney Gloria Allred from home
TMZ has the audio of a 911 call Suleman’s nanny made from the home on March 17 to try and get attorney Gloria Allred to leave the house before the first octuplets came home. It’s pretty boring – all they say is that Allred won’t leave despite being asked and the operator agrees to send an officer over to help.

I don’t blame Suleman for refusing to work with that agency. It seemed like they had another agenda and I wouldn’t trust Allred. It’s surprising that she initially agreed to allow them to help her considering how she thinks she can handle everything on her own. She’ll find out soon enough what it’s like. Even with help it’s not going to be easy for her.

Nadya Suleman is shown in the header visiting the Calvary Baptist Church Christian School in La Habra, California. Credit: Eric Brogmus/INFphoto.com

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  1. j. ferber says:

    It’s hard to know where to begin. When Suleman talks so nastily about her mother in front of her face, she could be talking about herself. Narcissist, much? The grandmother basically raised the 6 kids for Nadya. Now Nadya is dumping her since she’s found a way of suckering others to use. Her connections to other people are tenuous at best, based on her shrewd assessment of what she can get out of them. I disagree with the Gloria Allred comment. So what she gets publicity for doing good things? I prefer that to the skanky defense lawyers (a la Alan Dershowitz, Johnny Cochran, F. Lee Bailey, etc.) who gleefully represent woman-killers with not an ounce of remorse.

  2. CB Rawks says:

    Well this should automatically mean the children get taken away from her, because she is no longer meeting the state criteria for their care!
    God, I hate her. Someone rescue those babies!

  3. Alecto says:

    “She’s very self absorbed, and if she doesn’t have the attention she wants… she’ll go off. I don’t want to surround myself with her negative energy. She’ll influence the kids negatively and that’s why I don’t want her around.”
    WTF??!?!? Was she describing herself?

  4. HEB says:

    She doesn’t like her mom because her mom is speaking the truth to her–which is making Nadya upset because she can’t fire her/easily get rid of her.

    Its like a 15 year old who asks over and over to be allowed to do something, and the mom keeps saying no–that makes the 15 year old spiteful.

  5. tasteT says:

    I refuse to get all crazy with her stuff today BUT will she ever put her newborns first??

    I heard the nurses were scolding her for having that camera crew in her home 24/7 and they reported her to the authorities after speaking to her numerous times about the high posibilty of the newborns getting sick due to all of the traffic in and out of the house (GERMS)

    She got pissed because we all know she does not like anyone telling her what to do..

    They need to take those kids, her house will be a pig stye soon, its all down hill. She is CRAZYEEEE!!!

    I wish her and all of her crazy bs would go away, the world has more pending things going on..

    If she were living in a more affordable home she would not have to have cameras around 24/7…in Chicago, she would have been put in a low income home maybe 120,000..(she could live off the rest of the money instead of expecting it to come from handouts)she lives in a home most 2 parent families cannot afford..none of this is realistic..her being a stable parent to 50 damn kids being the main one.

  6. HEB says:

    TasteT, as a side note, I think $120,000 are pretty hard to come by in Southern California…even in the worst neighborhoods. $500g’s for a house in SoCal is more reasonable than you think.
    But she does need to get rid of those damn cameras–she’s worse than Bipolar Britney!

  7. YoMamma says:

    This family is dysfunctional with a Capitol “D”. When they do the reality show they HAVE to keep her mom in it. She looks like she is the only one taking care of the other kids. BTW I want a rocking chair like Nadyda’s.

  8. Macy Lu says:

    why does it say “Angelina standing at the door yelling at her daughter?” Hee hee….

  9. Wow says:

    Totally agree with CB on this. Alfred has other agenda’s in wanting to help. So glad Octo nixed working with them and has hired her own nannies for her children. I wouldn’t trust a woman who threatened tohave my kids taken away either. Nadya may seemed wacked out to me about her wanting to have all of those kids, but to me it seems she really loves those kids.

    If anything, Nadya should have a professional looking after her for signs of post pardum depression and the like.

    But Allred and anyone who has to do with her, I’d want them away from me and my family. There is no thing as free anything. There always is a price somewhere.

  10. Sunnyjyl says:

    Where does she get money to hire her own nannies?
    Where does she get money for anything? Even with State assistance she couldn’t afford it.

  11. Wow says:

    Also for some reason, I get the feeling AIW/Allred offered the help in order to get into the woman’s house and criticize her every move with her children, even if she is doing things correctly.

    Something seems off with the Grandmother as well. Where was all of her concern and criticism before the 8 children came along. She was an enabler then, so why b*tch about it now. I still feel she’s getting some type of money from this as well. I’m sure she’s not agreeing to be filmed for nothing. They’re all famewh*re’s to me in some way – except the children. None of the chidren asked for any of this mess.

  12. Wow says:

    Sunny – she is being paid for these interviews w/Radar, photos and the like.

  13. YIKES says:

    STOP WHINING MIND UR OWN BUSINESS…. WHO CARES WhAT ALL YOU PEOPLE THINK??

  14. Kimble says:

    I thought the AIW women on Dr Phil seemed very sanctimonious and smug. I wouldn’t like them in my house watching me 24/7 – and I don’t believe most mothers would enjoy that sort of scrutiny!

    I think NS is a whack-job, but I do think she loves her kids. She is damned if she is living off welfare and damned if she is making cash off Radar – what do her detractors (sp?) expect her to do? At least she is attempting to pay her way.

  15. Blondie says:

    I can not STAND this woman. She makes me want to throw up.

  16. Chiara says:

    I’m not planning on following Radar Online, TMZ, etc on the story. AP newswire is sufficient.

    If she keeps her name in the news daily, she’ll be rewarded with paid interviews. If she doesn’t, hopefully, these babies will find their way into adoptive homes.

  17. nanster says:

    I am certain that Nadya knows EXACTLY what is in the best interest of herself and her children. She’s shown such stellar judgment and decision-making skills up to this point. *eye roll*

  18. geronimo says:

    “..all we see is Angelina standing at the door yelling at her daughter.”

    Angelina? Too funny, CB! 😆

  19. sissoucat says:

    Alecto: I think the apple didn’t fall far from the tree. I wonder if the tree is not some magnitudes worse than the apple.

    Remember, the mother was initially defensive of Nadya, then she painted her black and said the father was going back to Iraq – and he hasn’t (or did I miss anything ?), instead he’s the piggybank for Nadya’s appearance fees.

    Not too bad of a deal, right ? So why is the mother still complaining, Nadya made all of them rich – but Granny still wants her foot in the media. By berating her daughter over her grandchildren.

    A strange person, that Octogranny. And what was she doing there, like Allred, if she indeed was uninvited ? She cared for the kids just for the time that Nadya was in the hospital. She said she would be gone now, but she’s back ?

  20. aleach says:

    crazy attracts crazy i guess. nadya, allred, octogranny, dr.phil…they are all wackos! this is such a circus. those poor kids.

  21. the original kate says:

    as much as i dislike the ocotmom, gloria allred is just as kooky. if that crazy bitch was in my house i would snap her like a dried up old twig.

  22. Lina says:

    Beggers can’t be choosers…

  23. Michelle B. says:

    I don’t give a hoot how she’s paying for the house, the shopping sprees, the nanny care, the manicures…as long as taxpayers don’t have to foot the bill anymore.

    However santimonious those AIW appear to be on Dr. Phil, their offer was beyond generous and it is beyond stupid to turn down free professional nursing care for 14 children, many of whom have special needs. Especially stupid for a single mother whose only source of real income will dry up the moment she ceases to be “news”.

    Gramma Suleman, in my opinion, has every right to be angry with her daughter. After looking after, financially supporting, and providing a home for Nadya and her first 6 kids, she can’t come over to see her grandkids unless she’s invited? Now that Nadya has her own home and money to provide childcare, Gramma has worn out her usefulness. I would be furious with my daughter for using me and tossing me aside in such a cold manner. So furious I might look a little crazy on RadarOnline.

    She is constantly biting the hands that feed her; the government, her family, PR people, professional volunteers.

    I’ve seen people who are “takers” but never on this grand a scale. She’s frightening.

  24. OXA says:

    C.P.S. we have a pick up in La Habra, make that STAT.

  25. tasteT says:

    Octopussy had those babies for fame
    a reality show and to mentally bond w/her idol

    Angelina

    She is a wack job and I hope they take those kids..

    giving the ok to plant all thosde embryos shows she is a ungrateful UGLY nut job.

  26. anastasiabeaverhausen says:

    Well, they had a point about the germs and camera crews, etc. In one of the MANY videos she made for Radar she talks about how she can’t let people see the babies because it’s RSV season, etc, and the irony of the fact that she has this big camera crew in there all the time doesn’t smack her in the face.

    Then of course she whines and complains about the attention, saying she never wanted it, but this is the same woman who hired her first PR firm from her hospital bed. Bish, please. You DEMANDED the attention. And now you got it. And it’s a double-edged sword.

    She’s gonna blow through her publicity money in a minute, watch. Then what? As someone said above, she’s STILL not thinking about her 14 kids.

  27. Maritza says:

    I love watching the videos because her babies are so beautiful, the father must be really handsome cause those kids are all so cute. She seems to be doing pretty good so far, the babies look healthy and well cared for.

  28. CB Rawks says:

    “She is damned if she is living off welfare and damned if she is making cash off Radar – what do her detractors (sp?) expect her to do? At least she is attempting to pay her way.”

    Who ever said that? People are against her sucking up the welfare, but no one complained that she earned any money for herself.

    If you pay attention you’ll see most people are worried because they know she cannot truly care for those babies by herself, and insist she gets help.
    …So she fired the help right away, What a shock.

  29. K. says:

    Doesn’t she realize no matter who she hires, nurses, nannies or child care workers, they are required by law to report any abuse or neglect to the authorties for investigation? What a twit.

  30. Ann Leight says:

    Just wondering

    Somebody said something similar, “I challenge anyone who thinks a person has kids for a publicity stunt. Any parent knows that would have to be the most intensive publicity stunt in the world. I am sure Nadya Suleman is coming from a good place. There are 130 million orphans in the world – who is looking after them? If we are American citizens and part of this world, on some level they are all our responsibility. If a mum can give these fourteen kids a peaceful life with the best intentions for them at heart, why would anyone stand in the way?”