a lady in BRU

I didn't think about it until hours after I got home and I don't want to accuse but this was weird

I was shopping in BRU - both girls were in the stroller - I saw this lady come in the door with an infant carseat but did not pay much attention. next thing I know - Addison was crying so I was bent over trying to calm her without getting her out so that I could continue to shop w/ both hands when I feel a tap on the back - it was the lady that had come in w/ the infant carseat asking me if she could get Addison out and hold her!!!! What??? this lady made a bee line around the registry desk straight to me!! heck no she's not going to touch my child!!!

she kept talking about the baby in the carseat as if the child was hers and even said that she had a 16 yr old brother at home who she loved to play with. then the weirdness REALLY began!!

1st: I asked the baby's name - the lady hesitated and said "Brooke, well Emma Kay...Brooke. Emma Kay Brooke"

2nd: then I asked her which hospital she had her at - she said Southern Regional - I said oh that's where I had my girls then she said well I adopted Brooke but I was there when she was born and it was Henry Medical Center!!???


Maybe I am just paranoid :crazy: but the whole experience was weird!!

 

Ummm. Yeah that sure does sound weird to me too. I know if someone asked me what my babies name was I wouldnt need to hesitate before answering. And I definately know where my children were delivered and that I am the one who delivered them. LOL. I think that those are things that I will definately never forget (well atleast I hope I dont). Not even to mention that she changed the childs name during the discussion and also changed which hospital the child was born at. So that seems very very odd to me.


Maybe she was babysitting and saw you with your twins and needed an excuse to come up and talk to you so she made up the fact that it was her child. But then again maybe she is just a very tired new mommy and her brain wasn't working properly today. I know I've had mommy brain before and when asked the simplest things cant come up with the right answer right away.

 

My first thought was not her child, but she wants it to be. WEIRD!! I can't believe she asked to hold Addison. That would have completely freaked me out!!

 

Heather, that is odd, if I were you, I would call the police. You never know. I have heard of people going with their gut feelings and ending up saving a child.

A few weeks back my SIL was at work and she was outside on her break. She looked over and sees this man running with this child. At first she didn't think much of it, but she said this overwhelming feeling came over her and told her that something was not right. She spotted another lady outside that was watching it happen as well. They both looked at each other and said "Did you see that? Something was not right.". They went in and called the police. Turns out this man was the boys estranged father, and that he had just taken him from the mother and was running. He was caught, thanks to a gut feeling from two moms. :clapping:

 

It does sound really weird. At first I was picturing the woman coming in with an empty carseat from the way you said it. Is that what happened? Or was there a child in the carseat? Sounds very very fishy to me. I agree with pp. I would call police just to find out if there is a missing child/baby that was recently reported. My other thought was that it was the baby sitter and she was pretending that the baby was hers, kwim? It still doesn't make sense with the whole name thing. Even if she was just the sitter/nanny, you would think she would have the name right. But perhaps her name is as she said but everyone calls her Brook? Who knows but it couldn't hurt to check into it. If it is a baby sitter and she was pretending to be the mother, I don't know, maybe I'm just insecure or crazy but that would sure bother the heck out of me.

 

Yeah -it just wasn't right. I am going to call the police just to make sure - it can't hurt and if one of mine was missing I would appreciate any tips even if it turns out to be nothing. I know I have probably said some things with mommy brain that have made people say huh?!! and I am sure hoping that's all it was!! the paranoid side of me hoped she didn't follow me home to get a sibling for Brook!!

and yes I think Brook was in the carseat when she came in - I could not see the baby at that point but she was in no hurry to
get out of BRU!!?? maybe she is a caregiver who made up a story on the spot? that's better than a stolen baby but still concerning!!!

Travis says that I am :crazy: poor thing just wanted to help me - and gets accused of kidnapping! I may point to the wrong twin and say 6.8 or 6.9 pounds but I know where they were born and would never say one hospital name and then the one across town - even if I had adopted them!!

 

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Travis says that I am :crazy: poor thing just wanted to help me - and gets accused of kidnapping!


Well, I hope Travis is right! Not the :crazy: part, but that your instincts are wrong! Keep us posted.

 

I am the grandmother of twins and my husband and I often take the boys - who are still infants - out and about. We'll take them with us to dinner or shopping and yes - even to BRU. We get a LOT of really strange looks from people. Sometimes I wonder if they think we have absconded with the boys and if we were questioned about the situation by police or others I would not take offense. I would be pleased that someone was looking out for the welfare of our boys. It's obvious we are older - people hesitate at times to ask us questions. They should from the looks of us make the assumption that we are the grandparents, but the hemming and hawing is amusing. It's just too much of a temptation for people seeing twins not to ask if they are identical, how old, etc. so they skirt around the parental issue - all except one lady. She looked at me one day and asked if I was the 62 year old that was written about in the paper that had just given birth to twins. Had she asked me if I were the grandmother or mother it would have been alright - but hey - I haven't quite reached my 60th birthday just yet so I was a little on the "offended" side. I could however, without hesitation, give you the name of each boy, his place, date, time of birth, weight and height. I could tell you when they were last fed, bowel movement, etc. I would have found the situation you were in highly suspicious and being such a suspicious person I believe I would have called the police. In fact I would have probably stayed until the lady left and checked out the kind of car she was driving and take down the tag number as well. We recently had a case in Alabama where a woman was suspicious of a couple and "their children" while she had gone into a store. The little girl looked unkept and kept trying to take hold of the woman's hand and follow her. The lady was only traveling through and lived in an adjoining state. She had made note of the vehicle and tag number when the couple and the children left the store but shrugged it off. The situation kept praying on her mind even as she drove home and she couldn't let it go. She was so concerned, she traveled back to Alabama where she had last seen the children, contacted the police and told them of her concerns. Since this woman was so concerned she made a trip back to the state, the police decided to check into the matter and both children had been kidnapped and both were being sexually and physically abused. It was apparently not the first set of children that had been kidnapped by this couple. The boy was an older pre-teen and the girl was not quite school age. Sometimes a gut feeling and intuition are all you need. My gut says something was seriously wrong with that scenario you encountered.

 

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We recently had a case in Alabama where a woman was suspicious of a couple and "their children" while she had gone into a store. The little girl looked unkept and kept trying to take hold of the woman's hand and follow her. The lady was only traveling through and lived in an adjoining state. She had made note of the vehicle and tag number when the couple and the children left the store but shrugged it off. The situation kept praying on her mind even as she drove home and she couldn't let it go. She was so concerned, she traveled back to Alabama where she had last seen the children, contacted the police and told them of her concerns. Since this woman was so concerned she made a trip back to the state, the police decided to check into the matter and both children had been kidnapped and both were being sexually and physically abused. It was apparently not the first set of children that had been kidnapped by this couple. The boy was an older pre-teen and the girl was not quite school age.



I saw that on TV. Amazing story!

 

Wow Heather what a crazy encounter! I think I would be suspicious too. Let us know if anything comes out of it.

The Alabama story is horrible. Poor kids.

 

That is strange, and I think you're right about calling the police. Let us know what happens.

 

If I were you, I would jot down every detail of the event, conversation, and any details you remember while they're still fresh in your mind. People steal babies and then try to pass them off as their own in another city or state. Scary!

 

Definitely VERY odd! Let us know if anything comes of this.

 

I wish I had thought about getting her tag number - at the time all I could think about was trying to get away from her.
(at the time I wasn't thinking she had kidnapped the baby I was so concerned about Addison who was crying and Ava who was getting more and more fussy by the minute that I didn't realize what I had just let get away until I was home)
I called the police and told them the situation - they took my name and # . sometimes my reaction time is slow - I really wish I had gotten her tag number that is such a good idea. I am going to be on the look out for her -I am in BRU a good
bit!! oh I sure hope I am wrong!! I just keep thinking of the time when I was a teenager and I babysat for a couple -
I told my family that the dad looked like a child molester - I got in trouble for that because he was a good friend and he had never given me a reason to say that - he just "looked" like one. well several months later he was arrested - for molesting a little girl in the neighborhood and then it came out that he had been molesting his own daughter! so you just never know!