’17 Diapers’ Mom Detailed ‘Solo Parent’ Time Before CPS Investigation

Weeks before her viral TikTok video launched a Child Protective Services investigation , mommy influencer Hannah Hiatt posted a video detailing how difficult she found solo parenting — even for just a day.

In the minute-long video posted on November 11, Hiatt, a mother of two, could be seen cleaning up her kids’ toys and preparing a bottle while praising single and solo parents.

“I commend you because I sure as heck can’t do that,” she said. “I recently had to do solo parenting…while my husband was on jury duty. I was supposed to do it for three to four days, but luckily it was only one day.”

She continued, “Being a solo parent, just for a day or a few days or whatever it may be, it’s freakin’ hard. How do you guys do it? How do you guys, at the end of the day when you put your kids to bed, how do you get anything done? How do you ever find time to be you? Because there are so many times in the day where I just shove my kids to my husband and say, ‘You deal with them, I’m going upstairs, or I’m going outside, or I’m going on a drive’ or whatever it may be. When you’re a solo parent or a single parent, you can’t do that.”

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Hiatt, also known as “Nurse Hannah,” rose to fame after she shared a viral TikTok video in October, showing the 17 dirty diapers she had strewn about her house. While she faced criticism at first for not keeping a tidier house, other moms came to her defense.

“It is you all day every day, all nights, and going onto the next day, it’s just you,” Hiatt concluded. “I seriously can’t imagine being a single parent and the hard part is that most people don’t choose to be single parents. It just ends up being that way.”

Hiatt is back in the news after becoming the subject of “numerous reports through Child Protective Service and police” stemming from a video she posted last month of her 2-year-old son James appearing to “flinch and hide his face while his dad walks toward him.” The video has since been deleted.

The Ogden, Utah police department confirmed the investigation to People, adding that “a detective [is] assigned to the case.”

Hiatt posted a follow-up video on November 30, defending her husband, Braxton Hiatt.

“The fact that I even have to address this right now is kind of insane,” she said, describing her husband as the “sweetest, nicest, kindest, most loving, most nurturing father in the entire world.”

“He [Braxton] is playing on the ground with James, like, 90% of the day,” she added. “If that man is not laughing, having fun, teasing him, playing with him, whatever it is, then something’s wrong because those two have the strongest bond … that I know of anyone else.”

Us has reached out to the Ogden’s Utah Police Department for comment.