So, how you doing?
I'm stressed out. I've been working so much.
I've been missing appointments and stuff for her.
I got run around and get everything switched over
so she can get her treatments and stuff
because I didn't know moving up here,
they wasn't gonna accept her Medicaid.
I don't want her not to not get the care that she needs.
You have to.
Just gotta do what we gotta do, right?
So you can get your therapy... right?
Alaiya was diagnosed with hydrocephalus
which is a grade four brain bleed
due to her being 1.4 pounds and the traumatic surgery
that I had, her brain started swelling up with fluid.
So, she had four surgeries.
And she has a VAD shunt in her head.
And the shunt allows the fluid to drain down to her stomach.
She has to have speech therapy, physical therapy.
She has to have her breathing treatments,
and she has to have stimulation therapy.
That is a lot for a little girl.
I am blessed.
After all the surgeries she's went through and everything.
Just look at her.
Look at you.
You were one pound? No way.
You?
You could fit in my hand, that's how small you was.
Yeah.
Remember when I went in the hospital.
And they told me she wasn't breathing.
And I went in and... I was about to--
I was about to kill somebody in there.
When Alaiya was five weeks old, we had a scare at the hospital
when she stopped breathing. And I literally, like,
lost it inside the hospital room, like, I was panicked,
like, I was about to die, like, I wanted to kill myself
at the time, like, at that moment.
If she wasn't there, I wanted to go, like, that's how I felt.
I feel like I would be lost without Alaiya.
Yes, I think so.
Mm-hmm.
She's doing so good and everything that they said,
she's doing the total opposite
She is.
You're my little fighter.
So, I'm gonna fight for you.
So you can do it on your own.
And with God's help.
Anyway, so I have all that going on and I...
signed the other day, I forgot to tell you.
Signed what?
Signed to the label, Mama.
Did you have a lawyer look over it?
Yeah?
Yes, I did.
Okay.
Who?
Who popped up? Mr. Wap came.
Mr. Wap, oh, yeah.
I was telling Shotti that it's gonna be a kind
of little conflict because it's, like, he doesn't really,
you know, acknowledge Alaiya.
(Alaiya fussing)
Huh?
Do I care?
You should move on.
Good, bad or best. That's the way you do it.
I'm not looking for a relationship with him.
I'm passed that. That was two years ago.
I just want him to reach out
and check on her, speak up to her, you know?
If a child is gonna have a father
that father should be consistent.
And if he cannot be, he shouldn't be around.
And that's not a father.
One of the reasons why Fetty is hesitant of claiming Alaiya
is because people like Solo Lucci is running around
trying to get cloud off my name, claiming Alaiya.
Knowing damn well he's not her father.
Fetty was there at my birth.
He rushed me to the hospital. He was there when I gave birth.
And then he just disappeared.
He didn't sign the birth certificate.
They asked him actually at the hospital to sign.
And he was, like, he was gonna do it in a little bit.
And he never did.
We have never took a DNA test.
I've asked him to take it numerous times.
Money is not an issue. I have my own money.
I'm my own money maker.
So I ain't calling him for child support.
I'm not trying to put him on child support.
It's not any of that. I want my daughter to have a father in her life.
I'm proud of you.
To know that you're doing all these things
and you're doing it well.
(Alaiya coos)
That's what I want for my baby.
Nothing but the best.
If not she gonna stay with me.
She what?
She live at my house...
No, she lives with me, Mama.
Okay, you'll see.