Bobby Brown, family gather to say goodbye to Bobbi Kristina
FRANCIS SPECKER/CBS/Landov Doctors have said there’s nothing more they can do for Bobbi Kristina Brown, seen in 2012. An emotional Bobby Brown spent his 46th birthday agonizing over the fate of his daughter, while family members gathered in Atlanta on Thursday and braced for the worst.
Bobbi Kristina Brown, 21, has been in a medically induced coma since she was found facedown in a bathtub in her home Saturday — and doctors told the family there’s nothing more they can do, People.com reported.
“Everyone is coming to the hospital to say goodbye,” a family member told the magazine.
Radar Online reported the young woman’s motherly grandmother, Cissy Houston, flew to Atlanta — just three years after losing her daughter Whitney under similar circumstances — to be with Bobbi Kristina.
It now falls to surviving parent Bobby Brown to choose whether or when to take his daughter off life support.
New York Day after day News Bobby Brown pictured at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Ga., on Thursday. 
Bobby Kristina Brown via Instagram Singer Bobby Brown (l.) has been given the power to choose whether to take his daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown (r.) off life support. 
Bobby Kristina Brown via Instagram Brown posted this image to Instagram on Christmas Day last year.
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“Bobby has been crying nonstop since yesterday,” the family member told People. “We are mournful.”
Additional family sources said Brown couldn’t handle making such a tragic choice on his birthday.
Instead, he’ll take on the unbearable task over the weekend, TMZ.com said.
Brown was also struggling to share some news with his family that was joyous — but couldn’t have come at a more awkward time, TMZ said.
The R&B singer’s wife, Alicia Etheridge, is four months pregnant with the couple’s second child, sources told the online gossip site.
Son Cassius was born in 2009, three years before they wed.
The former “New Edition” front man also has three children with a former girlfriend.
JIM RUYMEN/REUTERS The Brown-Houston clan seen in 2004. 
Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Bobbi Kristina Brown with Nick Gordon. The two said they were married, but that marriage has been questioned. 
New York Day after day News Bobby Brown (second from left) further than Emory University Hospital on Thursday. 
John E. Davidson/Getty Images Bobbi Kristina Brown was went to Emory University Hospital on Tuesday.
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His oldest child, Landon, was born in 1986, daughter LaPrincia in 1990 and a second son, Robert, in 1992. Bobbi Kristina was the only child from his troubled marriage to Whitney Houston, which finished in divorce in 2007.
Brown and his current wife tried to keep their baby news silent over the past week as they’ve kept vigil with the family at Bobbi Kristina’s bedside.
Not everybody in the Houston clan is ready to let go of the vibrant young woman who was just showing glimpses of coming into her own, but.
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Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic Bobbi Kristina Brown was found facedown in a bathtub at her home on Saturday. She has been in a medically induced coma since. 
Evan Agostini/AP Brown seen with mother Whitney Houston in 2009. 
Splash News Bobbi Kristina Brown (l.) seen with her mother Whitney Houston.
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“We’re all still praying that God will intervene and heal her body,” a family member told People. But “it’s sinking in that this is it.”
Bobbi Kristina — Whitney Houston’s only child — was went to Emory University Hospital earlier this week.
She’s been nonresponsive since she was found slumped in her bathtub on Saturday — a discovery that was eerily reminiscent of her celebrated mother’s death.
Singer Houston, 48, was found unconscious in the bathtub of her luxury Beverly Hills suite on Feb. 11, 2012.
The coroner’s report listed heart disease and cocaine use as foremost factors in Houston’s death.
Bobbi Kristina was learned by a friend of her boyfriend, Nick Gordon, 25.
Although she and Gordon said they got married last year — even tweeting a picture of their rings — a Brown family lawyer said this week they’d never been legally hitched.
Ronni Robbins reported from Atlanta.
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