Bobby Brown, family gather to say goodbye to Bobbi Kristina: reports

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 maternal 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 decide whether or when to take his daughter off life support.

“Bobby has been crying nonstop since yesterday,” the family member told People. “We are grieving.”

Other family sources said Brown couldn’t handle making such a tragic decision 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.

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 ended in divorce in 2007.

Brown and his current wife tried to keep their baby news quiet 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, however.

“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 moved 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 major factors in Houston’s death.

Bobbi Kristina was discovered 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.