Sherri Lynne Love Woman took large amount of prescription drugs after attack on children, police said Arabella Moreno, 7, is shown in a photo provided by her family. She was killed Feb. 3. REVIEW-JOURNAL

The mother charged with stabbing her 7-year-old daughter to death was booked into jail Friday after spending six days in the hospital.

Sherri Lynne Love, 46, had been unconscious since taking a large amount of prescription antidepressants immediately after the attack on her daughter and 8-year-old son Feb. 3, police said. She regained consciousness Thursday afternoon.

"It would have been easier if she had just passed," said Love's mother, Marjorie Bull. "I don't think she can live knowing what she did."

Bull, who had thought she might have to decide whether to take her daughter off life support, worried about the effect a drawn-out legal process would have on the family, she said.

Bull's lawyer, Stephen Caruso, said: "On one hand, she's (Bull) relieved, but on the other hand, this is more devastating because Sherri Love is going to have to go through a trial."

Love was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on charges of murder with a deadly weapon and attempted murder with a deadly weapon.

On the day of the attack, Love was drunk on champagne at her southwest valley home when she killed her daughter, Arabella Moreno, and stabbed her son, Brian Moreno, police said. Love locked herself in a bathroom after the stabbings, took the antidepressants and lost consciousness.

She was taken to University Medical Center and put on life support.

Love regained consciousness Thursday afternoon, but Bull wasn't notified until Friday afternoon, Caruso said.

Bull had lain awake Thursday night, crying over the memories of what had happened and the possible choice she would have to help make, Caruso said.

The lawyer blamed authorities for not notifying Bull that her daughter had regained consciousness.

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police Department said police did nothing wrong.

"It's certainly not the Police Department's responsibility to make those notifications," officer Bill Cassell said. "That would fall to the hospital."

Hospital spokeswoman Cheryl Persinger said that she didn't immediately know why Bull wasn't notified, but that the situation might have been complicated by police involvement.

Love was scheduled to appear Monday morning in Las Vegas Justice Court.