Octuplet mother fires free nursing help

Published 10:11 pm Monday, March 23, 2009

LOS ANGELES — Octuplets mother Nadya Suleman has fired a nonprofit group of nurses that helped care for her children, accusing the group of spying on her and reporting her to child welfare officials, her spokesman said Monday.

Angels in Waiting has been training nannies paid by Suleman at the family’s La Habra home.

Suleman later had several confrontations with the nurses, Suleman attorney Jeff Czech said, and the situation grew unbearable Sunday when Suleman came to believe that Angels in Waiting founder Linda West-Conforti was allegedly filing a report against her with child welfare officials.

Czech said that Suleman will have her nannies trained by nurses from Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center, where the octuplets were born on Jan. 26. Hospitals provide some training free of charge to new mothers.

Four of the octuplets are home from the hospital, and Suleman has six other children.