Kelli Stapleton, formerly of The Status Woe, continues to sit in jail without bond after attempting to kill herself and her daughter. Now her friends and family have started a fund to hopefully buy her freedom:

Our friend Kelli is a daughter, sister, cousin, mom, college graduate, scientist, author, famous blogger, snarky activist and devoted friend to many. She is loved and supported in the autism community…

The fundraiser goal is currently $50,000, though apparently you can pray or send letters of support in lieu of money.

Serge Bielanko, father of two with The Girl Who‘s Monica, is tired of the home birth scare army. After all, they are not at all worried about the entrance of their third child into the world:

The fact is, we aren’t really scared of anything.

Why not? She could die. Everyone could die. I could die. I’m not sure how, to be honest, but there’s got to be a way that I could perish during our home birth, right?

Oh well.

Serge then kicks off his reasons for the decision to do a home birth by stating:

…we have been through the hospital thing twice and although it was fine and dandy, we have never been the kind of people who want to do every single thing in our lives according to what everyone else up and down the road are doing.

He later goes on to explain that this is how women have had babies since mankind stumbled out of caves and started filling their mound houses with Ikea, thus attempting to justify his flippant lack of fear of what might happen with this birth.

Dooce, dramatic, is dramatically informing the world via her blog that she is empty with lonliness since being forced to find childcare outside her home. After apologizing for not posting very much because she is super omgbusy with all these important projects and ‘meetings’, the wahmbulance pulls into the driveway:

[M]y cousin left and I had to find other childcare for my girls during the day. It changed suddenly, overnight. And now I don’t see them for days. Yes, when I travel I don’t see my kids for just as long, but I do not enjoy being in my house without my kids…I had friends tell me that I would love the free time I’d have on the days and nights they are with their father. But the opposite is true. Those days shred my heart to pieces.

What Dooce fails to mention is that for some of those heart wrenching childfree days, she is running around with her little friend Matt. As recently as 4 days ago he departed Salt Lake City after a week or so visit with Il Dooce. Last month it was days and days off at a lake where she clearly looks absolutely gutted. The month before that she was obviously wallowing in despair during another of their getaways. And the month before that. And the month before that.

Look, I get that she’s basically phoning it in at this point. But what I don’t understand is how she can post long whines about how she has the sads being all alone all day while her kids are in totally optional child care, when it doesn’t seem she spent much time with those kids during the day in the first place. I mean before this she had some cousin watching them. Before that it was some person in her basement or something. Before that she had a nanny for how long? So it’s not like she’s a lifelong stay at home mom and her last baby just started college. And it’s not like she’s some sad single mom with no one in her life but her kids – she has her Halfnose Hipstergrammer and evidently plenty of family around.

I just don’t understand the disconnect between what this woman posts on her blog and what is obvious from her other online presence. Pick a plot and stick with it already.

Kelli Stapleton, mother to an autistic daughter, was hospitalized Wednesday after attempting to kill herself and her child, Issy, late Tuesday. The mother and daughter were found unconscious on the shore of Lake Michigan with two portable charcoal grills burning inside the van. They were transported to the hospital and are being treated for carbon monoxide poisoning – and while Kelli is expected to recover, doctors fear 14 year old Issy may have permanent brain damage.

Earlier interviews with Kelli hinted that she might be reaching her limits:

“I felt like I needed witnesses…If I didn’t survive this situation, I wanted people to know that I was a good mom and I did everything I could do, and I asked for help from all these resources. … I’m grateful people read it and wanted to help.”

Kelli is expected to be arraigned sometime in the next week.