Moms Behind Bars | Sir Trevor McDonald Documentary | Real Stories
Documentary following pregnancy and birth in prison, including the ‘Wee Ones’ program at the women’s prison in Indiana, in which well-behaved prisoners are allowed to keep their babies in a nursery wing with other inmates as nannies.
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I have seen other shows on the Wee Ones nursery including after Heather gives birth. The Amish couple tries to bring her daughter a couple of times a month and loves her like their own.
Wow people can judge Heather…as they will. Pregnant twice with twins first at 11, then 17. She never stood a chance that young. Who impregnated her at 11? Just sad all the way around. 😞
What if a baby is Born with a Disability then what? A mother has no responsibility for a Baby having a Disability.
heather is a liar.
they dont deserve to have their children in jail
This is a wonderful program, helping both babies and mothers grow. Those little babies NEED their mothers, and this is a safe, nurturing, loving environment in which they will thrive with so much attention from their mothers, the nannies, the other inmates, and the guards. Babies should not be penalised for the wrongs of their mothers.
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Kids deserve better than these losers.
I was raised by the children’s aid and I had no voice and I would rather be in 100 foster homes than spend any of my childhood in prison because if my parents didn’t want to follow the law they should not have the right to have me sorry but my mom already screwed my development up without a prison program and she had me exposed to things no child should ever be exposed to nor should any adult!
We are the most influenced under 6
Giving option to moms to keep their children along with them behind bars is an appreciable act of the U S A government. Family bonding and gun control can bring down crime rate in America.
Gosh, I sure hope cps step in and forced Donna to go to parenting classes and learn about co-dependancy
Just so everybody knows Bobbi Brush Passed away. She had and was clean an asthma attack she was married. Her daughter Havana is absolutely beautiful.
She did not have any more babies after the one featured.
To be able to keep the babies out of the foster care system and give the mothers a supportive environment to learn how to care for their babies and learn to cope with motherhood sober is a blessing for the children 😅❤
The women may be punished, but why punish the babies? They need care from their biological parents, if possible.
This comment is specifically for pregnant women giving birth in prison. Not got adoptive parents or anyone else. Only for this specific situation.
Edit: It's a very tough situation, frankly. I honestly support what they're doing in allowing the mothers to keep the babies if they qualify. I don't know if i agree with them giving such a coveted spot to a woman with the track record Bobbie has, but I'll assume they had some compelling reason to. I think mental illness, addiction, and so on play a much deeper role in how people live their lives than most people realize. I think people who haven't experienced addiction, mental illness to a debilitating degree, and so on dont know what day-to-day life is like, especially the more responsibilities you have. Depending on what the issues are, some women suffer from some extreme dissociation as a byproduct of the issues that you know, logicallt, what you SHOULD be doing, but making yourself so it is different. Willpower is finite in varying amounts for each individual.
Above all, the babies shouldn't be punished, though. If the mother does well and proves herself, she should be allowed to care for her baby. It's about the rest of their life, not just the couple of years or whayever they're in prison. They need to build that foundation in preparation for the outside and success. I also believe that many of these women likely haven't had people care about them in ways mamy humans need, so having that vote of confidence and empathy will help some women a great deal for their future. The baby can't get a do-over, so this needs to be treated as if it's the last time the mother will be there and they need to build the foundation for a better future.
Again, this onviously only applies for specific cases. Not every pregnant woman there is such a case. I still don't fully agree that Bobbie even belongs there, just with what was shown here…. I would say she didn't qualify. We'll see, I guess.
Donna isn't capable of being responsible for a pet, let alone a baby….these women can't bond, inmates are inherently anti social
Sorry but how did bobby afford the medical bills to have all those babies
Is there an update on Rebecca and Ayesha?? I liked them.
Watched this again after a year and it still makes me upset that bobby got picked over Donna. Bobby literally has lost all her other babies she has no right to have this one with her to try and make it right
The American court system is whack. 36 years for drug dealing yet pedophiles who raped underage children only get like 7 years.
As a pregnant woman if I did something so bad that I were in prison during my baby’s first 2 years of life I would hope I would be selfless and give my baby up for adoption. Those baby and toddler years are just too important for development and I hope I’d love my baby more than to keep him knowing he’d be better in the long run with someone better equipped to care for him.
I don't believe it's fair to the children to grow up behind bars, I think it's terrible.😢
Heather I was 11 when I had my first set of twins 😱😱😱
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Having a kid is bringing a future wage slave into the world to suffer.
I feel sorry for the babies 😢
Oh cool It's Mennonite and not actual Amish that took her baby. Not that I think one is worse than the other but Mennonite has a little bit more freedom than the regular Amish due so that's good
I mean if they could change one thing about the baby system is letting family know if they're able to have one person come in to be their coach, they should let the family know prior and then just not let phone calls out between the family and the inmate so the location can't be known to the inmate and then the family member would have a chance to be able to be there to watch the baby be born. But I'm sure there's risks in telling family members that it'll get back to somebody somehow in the prison that'll then get back to the inmate of where and when they're going so I guess that's probably why they do it but they could still give them a heads up like hey you need to come to the area and be ready because in the next few days you guys are going to have to go to a hospital somewhere close but just not say where
I'm glad Heather didn't get a spot because someone else definitely deserved it more. And dude she's only 31 and looks like she's about 45. But now finding out that she got pregnant when she was 11? What the frig?
Wonder what happened with Bobbi after she got out. She doesn't even seem like the type that really even wanted to keep her baby but wanted to use that as a reason to get into the cushy part of the prison in the nursery
Oh my god I love these officers playing with the babies. It makes my mama heart melt.. Makes me teary-eyed. It takes a certain kind of someone to take that job to be able to interact with babies like that and even the moms and be sweet and sympathetic to them
Holy cow drug possession got Donna 3 years? See this is why our prisons are overpopulated. It's like instead of sending them to a treatment facility, let's lock them up in prison. Yeah makes total freaking sense let me tell you. So aggravating
I almost guarantee that at least 70% of the female inmates in jail are drug-related charges. Drugs are out of control and it's not going to get any better. They're too accessible. To addicting. And people need to have more willpower and self-control to never do them in the first place. I get it, childhood trauma is hard and it's hard to get through but there's a better way than doing drugs trust me. Been there done that
Bobbie shouldn’t have been given a chance she had 5 kids that she had no custody of and she can’t even stay clean. Donna got screwed. I don’t think kids should have to live behind bars it’s not their fault.
I feel like the babies should have outside people to take them a few hours a week!
It's a great program but at 18 months children can and need to do a lot of exploring already.
So I think a volunteer taking the baby to playgrounds and into nature and maybe places like a zoo every now and then would be good for them!
Congratulations all mom I love all,I hope you all change your life
The doctors talking to heather like Jesus Christ 🤦🏾♀️
I love 💗 watching labor and delivery birth vlogs on the YouTube channel app
I love that amish couple is helping mom. I mean you have to have a big heart to do something like that. I hope these mom’s turn their life around for the sake of their kids.
I wonder where these women and babies are today?
It's like they get pregnant when they know they are going to prison….it's posh compared to others… They know how to work the system.
Awwwwe I feel so sorry for these criminals. NOT
So what do men need to do or have in order to get special treatment facilities like these.
Even with me having Diabetes type 1, I'd be put in with other normals and not have the ability to get help if I have a diabetic episode.
Women want equality, well take the kid and make them suffer. Perhaps that will open eyes and make them think before they do something stupid again to get put into jail. Perhaps Not, though.
OK I'm just going to say ,you had time to do these things to get you behind bars,yet now your being a nurturing mom?!I dont buy it and I think you should NEVER ,EVER ,HAVE your baby in jail!,Jail is a punishment so ok why not just let them put drugs in there cell and wallpaper the place!!!!!,Not this is really crazy and I'm sooooo ANGRY AS A TAX PAYER WATCHING THEM JUST HAVE A PLEASANT DAY!!!!LET ME STOP HERE BC ITS GOING TO GET UGLY!!!!BTW this is like most of these girls like 5th kid WOW STERILIZE THEM!!!!!!
In America it seems like women get pregnant without a care in the world. Scary.