The woman had conceived her son after suffering a miscarriage years earlier, but felt overwhelmed and was also stressed over his jaundice and pumping enough breast milk.
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In a note left for her son, the 33-year-old Singaporean woman wrote that she loved him and that he was not a mistake. The boy was the couple's only child, and they hired a maid and a confinement nanny to help care for him. The father then noticed a card in the house that had a six-digit number and an object resembling a padlock printed on it. He managed to unlock the padlock after using the numbers.
However, as the man thought his wife was displaying some degree of self-awareness, he thought the situation was not serious enough to warrant seeking help, ASP Ang said. The maid agreed and said the mother was stressed over her son's jaundice and how she could not pump breast milk.She said she wanted to begin feeding him formula milk, as she did not want to go through the hassle of pumping breast milk, and her sister told her there was no issue with this.She also asked her sister and mother whether they would take care of her son if she did not want him anymore.
She was seen at a private hospital in December 2018 after a diagnosis of a molar pregnancy - a rare complication of pregnancy involving unusual cell growth.
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