I posted a late night update on the latest drama by Jenelle as she and David head to the Teen Mom Reunion earlier. If you missed that, check it out here. I wanted to know what the episode after she displayed even more gross parental negligence and abuse than usual would entail so I am getting started on this one.
Kailyn
It seems to me that flying at 35 weeks is really pushing it and kind of irresponsible at this point especially since it is something that could wait and not say a funeral or a sibling’s wedding or something. Nonetheless, Kailyn and her friend and her kid (Is it Becky With The Good Hair?) are in St. Thomas with her boys. Actually her friend is Rachel, no Becky. Kailyn said that Baby Daddy 3 didn’t want her to travel this late in her pregnancy. Kailyn’s hands and feet are swelling up so she needs to see a doctor. I told you so! Kailyn says if she has to be induced she wants to go the the Dominican Republic or Cuba so that the baby will have dual citizenship. Better do some research into that Kailyn. Most countries don’t have open borders and grant all kids born in their country automatic citizenship.
Kailyn is sent to the hospital to be checked for pre-eclampsia. She texts Baby Daddy #3 and he doesn’t answer. Kailyn says he is with his other girlfiend. She doesn’t have pre-eclampsia and is released.
Chelsea
Aubree is headed off to start second grade. This is my absolute favorite year of public school to teach. They are all potty trained, know basic phonics and addition, are eager learners and have not been corrupted by the system yet.
Chelsea and Cole’s wedding reception is just around the corner. She is also meeting with a lawyer to see how hard it will be to hyphenate Aubree’s last name.
Briana
Stella looks so unwell in the car seat that I can’t believe I see them driving her home from the emergency. Why didn’t they keep that baby in the hospital? Briana lets us know that the doctors ran several tests and the results were not good. When they get home Briana explains to her sister that Stella has three holes in her heart. She says the doctor said that normally the holes stay the same size as the heart grow and they are small. People live their whole lives with holes in their heart and do fine. Still they have a lot of signs to look out for. Luis did not come to the hospital. I don’t think he ever showed up again.
Nova is right there through all of this as usual. It seems like the producers bought her some kind of kiddie laptop with a big head set. Her eyes are still on the adults in the room and she knows something bad is happening. Brittany is having her usual fit talking about how the family never catches a break. All I can think of is “Bitch, you’re getting Teen Mom checks.”
A few days later, we discover that Luis has not been to see Stella at all. He claims he has started trucking school. Briana doesn’t seem to understand that Nova can’t be responsible for keeping an eye on Stella while she folds laundry in another room. I am going to presume that she just wanted Nova out from under foot and she is working while Stella is sleeping.
A few days later, Luis has a day off from trucking school. He stops by to see Stella. Luis says he has no excuse or explanation for his distance. When Briana’s mom comes home, she lays into Luis. Brianna tries to shut her down but it doesn’t work. Luis gets up without saying a word and leaves.
Jenelle
It’s Jace’s eighth birthday. Jenelle tells us that Barbara had a birthday party for him a few days ago, and she is going to have one for him in a few days. She video chats with Jace to wish him a happy birthday. His birthday was on a school day so it looks like they did his parties on the weekend. At Jenelle’s party at a water park, Jenelle give him a present and says, “I didn’t have time to wrap your present, so here is your present.” How can your job literally be filming a TV show about being a mom and you can’t wrap one crappy plastic toy in a box? HOW?
On the way to meet Barbara after their weekend together, Jenelle tells Jace she wants him to walk her down the aisle. She explains the whole process of him putting her hand in David’s hand. He was down with it up until that point. Then he says,”I don’t want you to get married.” When Jenelle asks why not, he says he is just joking. He’s not. He seems quite troubled by the conversation. At the pickup, Jenelle questions Barbara about why Jace is on ADHD meds before he was seen by a psychiatrist. I agree with her there. I don’t know if they still prescribe kids with ADHD Ritalin, but that turned out to cause major problems with them and is not a good idea. Jenelle also told Barbara that Jace was leaving on Friday and returning on Sunday to go to pick up her wedding dress in NYC. Barbara was adamant he could not miss any school.
Leah
They haven’t found a therapist for Gracie yet. But, Leah took the girls to Florida for a family vacation. I am all about travel, but I just wonder is some of these girls are saving money for when this gravy train jumps the track. Leah let Ali in the pool without a life jacket, so of course when she finally makes her put it on she has a total meltdown. This seems to really upset Gracie. This whole situation is upsetting. I think Gracie resents Ali for taking away her mother’s attention all the time. Later they go to Busch Gardens and Leah makes sure to ride a few things with just Gracie.
And so goes another week of summer vacation with the teen moms.
I don’t know if Janelle actually asked Jace “why not?” I think she said nothing, I was waiting to see how she handled. By saying nothing, and he nervously said “just kidding”.
I could be mistaken, but that is what I thought happened.
Another frustrating and sad for the children show. Ugh.
I cannot believe the position everyone is putting Jace in. I’m getting so worried about him. I think something is up with how he vs Marissa are treated. Just watching the way she acts, and how timid he becomes, I think it may be David and Marissa against Jace. Omg, breaks my heart for Jace and Kaiser. Marissa seems very comfortable. I’m certain she comes first in that household. Never see her and Janelle interact either. Sorry, I can rant and rave about this show endlessly.
Marissa is hardly ever there. His visitation with her may have stopped when the CPS investigation begin. So, not sure how she is ruling the house.
There was a long, silent pause filled with tension until Jenelle asked him why not.
Wishful thinking that Jace would be able to say how he felt and Janelle would consider his feelings. Guess I should have known. ??
She did ask “why?” very curtly and coldly. That’s when he said just kidding.
Historically when a correction begins or ends with “I could be wrong” the person is wrong 100% of the time. This is no exception.
When one takes it upon oneself to correct someone, they should at least have conviction that they are right even if they are not.
I had to rewind the part where Janelle and Barbara were arguing in the parking lot and Janelle said that her “fans” were watching them go at it. I didn’t see fans….. just 2 random people who happened to be taking a break.
She’s so delusional
I noticed that too, she is delusional.
The certainly did not look like typical fans to me either. The woman did take a photo or short video but it was likely just because people were being filmed in the parking lot. Probably had no idea who they were and went home later and asked their friends if they knew who they were.
Luis may be the deadliest baby daddy ever, but even a great guy would be driven away by Briana’s mom and sister.
I mean he actually brought diapers and other baby things and not a glimmer of positive reinforcement from anyone.?
Maybe the actual goal is to drive him away ASAP.
Brianna wanted adoption, Luis didn’t. But if he didn’t step up then Brianna had grounds to go through with the adoption without his consent. I wish she would, since he really hasn’t done anything. Now that’s all forgotten about because she really got pregnant to be on Teen Mom again IMO.
Can’t stand even looking at or hearing Jenelle’s voice. Disgusting person.
Chelsea’s son is a big baby! So cute though. Aubree adjusting well to her new brother.
Glad Leah and Corey are considering therapy for Gracie. Wish they’d stick to one name for her though. Allie probably needs it too.
Kail must of been flown by private jet. No way would an airline let her travel. So stupid saying all along she had a high risk pregnancy and then flies off into the hottest time of year in the Carribean. She knows she’s stuck with new baby all by herself. No dad’s or grandparents to help this time.
Brianna did NOT get pregnant to be on Teen Mom. That is an awful thing to say. I do not get all the hate for this girl when it is clear she has had to be the mother of her own mother and sister. She tried to do what was best for the baby. It’s just an unfortunate situation.
As for Kail flying I believe she said she was 35 weeks. While writing the story I googled and the cut off for flying seems to be 36 weeks for most airlines. I was shocked by that. Also you would think Intentional flights no matter how short would have a lower limit. It doesn’t seem smart, and I wonder how she wore a seat belt.
If Brianna was doing what’s best for everyone she would of considered adoption. She mentioned it enough times on the show and it’s apparent Luis didn’t live up to his end of the bargain, so what’s stopping her? I know she loves the baby but real love is doing what’s in the best interest of the child since it will be living in daycare and has no father. Logical conclusion on MTV fame IMO. We agree to disagree.
We can’t agree to disagree on two different versions of the truth. On the show I watched there was a three episode or so story arc of Briana talking to Luis about adoption. There was an episode where Briana went to the adoption counselor and explained that the sperm donor was not willing to agree to adoption. There was an episode where she pleaded with him to do what was best for the child. Luis then suddenly had job prospects and promised to help pay for daycare and told her he wanted them to keep their options open to have a relationship beyond coparenting.
Luis began doing his part. He went to her doctors appoints and was present at the birth where he presumably signed the birth certificate. There simply wasn’t any point where the adoption could have happened based on the actions he took before the baby was born. He stayed in a war zone with the baby the first night or two. He returned with diapers and baby crap. There was no way his parental rights were going to be stripped at that point and if they had tried before it would have been a long legal battle because he would have fought it.
We can however agree that I see a young women in a very bad situation who tried very hard to give up child so that she would have a better life and was unable to and now is suffering the consequences of a busted condom, or a forgotten pill under some very harsh scrutiny in order to provide for her child. Oh all the girls on this show, you never see Briana with a face full of stage makeup and hair dress like a hooker cheesing for the cameras. What I see is a young girl in full blown depression. I guess that is where we disagree, since you see someone who plotted to have another child she could not afford and another broken relationship so that she could be filmed for the cameras to make a buck.
Luis never lived up to his financial responsibility. Doubt he’s paying medical bills either. Brianna had grounds to continue with adoption just on that. Her timing was suspect on pregnancy and MTV filming. With Chelsea doing well apparently MTV has been looking for a fourth girl for a while to fill the time gap. I wish Brianna well and think she is a caring mother.
Brianna has a live baby now. She cannot “continue with adoption” that was never put in process, she has not established grounds to even begin adoption. She would now have to go to court and prove that Luis has abandoned the child. Luis would have an opportunity to rectify the situation. During all of this time the child will have bonded with the mother. And Brianna has bonded with the child. Most mothers who wanted to adopt will not then just give up the child after the six months to a year they have spent breastfeeding and bonding with a child. That’s why adoptions happen at the time of birth.
I am perplexed as to why you are now saying that Briana is a caring mother when your initial premise was that Briana got pregnant on purpose to have her misery documented on TV because she heard there might be a “job opening” and saying that mothers that really love their kids put them up for adoption rather than putting them in daycare while they work to support them. I’m not a mother, but I would think many mothers would be horribly offended by that premise. I have no idea where you got the idea that MTV was shopping for a replacement for Chelsea. That is simply not true. They are however getting ready for a new Teen Mom franchise or two.
I worked in an OB office and we routinely had patients request permission-to-fly letters, which would state they are safe to fly up to 35 weeks. Is it the smartest thing for a pregnant woman to do, especially for vacation to a foreign country? Nope. But travel does happen.
I can’t believe Jenelle couldn’t even find time to wrap ONE birthday present. FFS she could have at least bought a fucking gift bag on the way to the party. Single parents who work and have 20 kids manage to at least do that. Jesus she sucks.
I thought the exact same thing–1 stop at the $ Store for a gift bag, birthday card, tissue paper, bow and a helium bday balloon–tops 15 minutes of her time! But Jenelle is too selfish and self centered to put herself out for anyone other then that azz of a husband of hers. She displays zero amount of maternal attachment or bonding with any of her kids. It is not my place to judge, but I am anyway—she does not deserve to have those 3 beautiful children. They would have such a better life if all 3 were part of different families. There are so many families that would give the world for a chance to love and parent those beautiful children.
My DVR recorded a show of meltdowns and fights over the years..
There was a huge fight between Jenelle and a boyfriend I had forgotten. She almost ran over him.
I watched the first 2-3 seasons and thought Kailyn, Farah and Caitlyn would find their way to a stable, independent life. Didn’t give Chelsea much hope because she was so daddy dependent. Shows what a great character judge I am ?