If there’s one thing that the Teen Mom cast has shown viewers over the years, it’s that becoming a mother at a young age is incredibly hard. We’ve watched through the years as the girls faced off with difficulties and hardships that no one but young mothers can understand.
So of course, they’re bound to make mistakes.
It’s easy for fans to be forgiving when the girls mess up now and then, but when their mistakes put their children at risk, it’s harder for fans to be sympathetic.
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Over the years, we’ve seen the cast members do some disagreeable and downright horrifying things when it comes to raising their children. In fact, MTV has come under fire for airing some of the footage of their children in unsafe situations when it seemed like a producer or crew member should step in to interfere.
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Of course, the camera crew can’t be around all the time, and plenty goes on when the producers aren’t present to make a call. Unfortunately, this was the case when one of the Teen Mom stars’ children got a concussion.
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One of the newest Teen Mom: Young and Pregnant stars, Rachel Beaver, has been stirring waves on the show since her first appearance. This is due in part to her family's criminal history! But surprisingly, her sister Malorie is even more controversial.
Malorie was a teenage mother herself, and has a young child named Emerson. She took to Instagram to share with fans an alarming reveal: Emerson got a concussion!
“We had been up since 4 yesterday and spent all day in hospitals,” Malorie wrote. “I had to get my appendix stitches checked and then Emerson had started puking a lot. So we rush to children’s and my baby had to get a CAT scan.”
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She wrote,
”Turns out she has a very minor concussion. She hadn’t been acting different or anything so this was a shock for me. It was a very stressful day and to top it off we passed out at like 8:30 before we could watch @teenmom #youngandpregnant. Everyone please pray my little Minnow makes a speedy recovery.”
It’s no surprise that fans were alarmed by this update.
“If a toddler hits their head that hard, someone usually noticed,” wrote user yers0bad on reddit.
“So. In order for this kid to have a concussion, that means someone was watching her and did nothing when she smashed her head into or onto something, or no one was watching her,” wrote user PygmyFists. “Yes. Accidents happen. But when a child bumps their noggin hard enough to get a concussion, you f*cking know. Either you heard or saw the accident, and didn't take her to get checked out, or you weren't watching or paying attention to your child.”
User ogsouthern agreed, “I’m not a mom yet, but I don’t get how a baby can hit their head so hard to have a concussion and no one notice until she starts vomiting.”
In fact, some fans think Child Protective Services should get involved!
“Please tell me why and how CPS has not taken this poor kid away yet?” wrote user HektikSB.
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