#shauna shipman’s wilderness baby

[enidtendo64]

Family matters 👩‍👩‍👧‍👦

[yjposting]

do you guys think the wilderness baby would've survived if shauna had one of these

[dob-the-destroyer]

sometimes when i remember that shauna lost wilderness baby i want to kill myself

[ggardengirl]

jackieshauna + their daughter: molly phoebe “bee” shipman

for js weekend day 1: and we did get through this together

[dykelittlemy]

jackieshauna + wilderness baby

[whatyourehungryfor]

head in my hands because shauna wanted jackie to live so fucking bad between the trying to help her help out with chores so she find her place better to "just eat some for me please" but in the end shauna's hands are still bloody. "you're the one holding the knife" because even if jackie was halfway doomed already shauna is the butcher and she will always slice across the throat whether she wants to or not

[mediawhore]

Shauna and Jackie both mean "God is gracious" and have the same root name because why would there be any separation between either of them? Of course they share that too.

Bonus content:

Shauna really looked in a baby name book or website and said "This is it! This is the name!"

[ominousblob]

Why can’t you hear him crying?

When she’s Ivan the terrible 🙏

[magic-is-afoot]

Isaac asked Abraham "where is the lamb for the burnt offering" to which Abraham responded "God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son."

i will never stop using bible references to describe yj dynamics

[hangsawoman]

it hurts so much to hear shauna talk about callie. she had her just to save the marriage she got in for jackie, to save the life jackie should’ve lived. the idea of a child (to keep jackie’s life alive) was what she wanted, the actual child was unwanted. the wilderness baby was unwanted but also for jackie, she slept with jeff to get a taste of jackie, and when she had the baby it was like having someone a new jackie to care for. that is what she wanted, what she needed. it was jackie who called her in the delusion that her baby was alive. both her children lead to jackie.

[mikeyxfreeman]

wilderness baby, but they doubled up.

percy jackson and kj from paper girls 😭 pls someone understand where the idea is from.

[yjposting]

Lottie desperately wanting to be a parental figure but specifically to Shauna's children will never not be hilarious to me

[ggardengirl]

[dykelittlemy]

yellowjackets sketchbook doodles :-)

[shaunashoochiebae]

“he’s so beautiful. just like his father.”

him:

[jilyandbambi]

yeah, if 6 teenage girls and 1 teenage boy had emerged from the Canadian wilderness after 19 months with a 1 year old baby in tow, there would've been no escaping the media hellstorm. They would've been on 20/20 within 3 months. One group interview and a few candids of Shauna holding the baby would've been the price they'd all have had to pay in order to be left tf alone because while in 2023 society pretends to care about trauma, PTSD, and teens' mental health, this was the 90s--when Nicole Brown Simpson was blamed for her own murder, Lorena Bobbit was a late-night punchline, R. Kelly marrying 15 y/o Aalyiah was an open secret, grown men were calling into radio stations to speculate on 16 y/o Britney Spears' virginity, and Monica Lewinsky was doxxed and getting death threats for sucking off Bill Clinton.

What I'm saying is:

Seven teens (the girls + Travis) surviving against the odds for 19 months is the epilogue to a tragedy with enough unanswered questions to keep true crime nerds speculating & reporters digging.

But them being found with an infant? Had it come out that one of the girls was pregnant and gave birth during the ordeal? That's mainstream tabloid fodder. The kind that not even "papers of repute" would turn their noses up at. Barbara Walters, Lesley Stahl, and Mike Wallace would be beating each other and TMZ down to get the first interview, the first photo of the baby. NBC would've backed a U-Haul full of money onto the Shipman's, the Martinez', and the Sadecki's front yard (because speculation as to who the actual father really was would be kept going until it came directly from the source). Did she know she was pregnant when she got on the plane? Who else knew? What was it like giving birth? Did any of the other girls get pregnant? How many of the girls did Travis do it with? Weren't any of them afraid of the same thing happening to them? Did doing it help them cope?

And it wouldn't just be the media. Doctors, child development specialists, psychologists, sociologists, and academics would be calling non-stop to get Shauna and the baby to participate in clinical trials and studies.

The only way they'd have been left alone is if they'd done a televised interview and ended it by pleading to be allowed to go on with their lives in peace