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| Octuplets' mother has 6 other children |
| 2009-01-30 |
| Full disclosure: I'm the oldest of eleven, so I have nothing against big family's. But nobody supported us but us. The woman who gave birth to octuplets this week already has six young children and never expected that the fertility treatment she received would result in eight more babies, her mother said Thursday. What doctor thought it would be a bright idea to okay fertility treatments for a woman who already has six kids? I could see if she had none, but...c'mon. The woman, who has not been publicly identified, had embryos implanted last year, and "they all happened to take," Angela Suleman said, leading to the eight births Monday. "I looked at those babies. They are so tiny and so beautiful." She acknowledged that raising 14 children is a daunting prospect. Ya think? |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #13 I blame her and her family for not intervening on this. 14 kids! Those poor babies are going to have a rough road. |
| Posted by: Herman Flineck aka Broadhead6 2009-01-30 19:53 |
| #12 More. It appears "Mom" has "issues"... In an effort to try and find out more about the woman who gave birth to octuplets earlier this week, we went to the home she shares with her parents and six other children in Whittier, California. What we learned is that her whole neighborhood is buzzing about the possibility that the 33-year-old mother used the same sperm donor to conceive the octuplets AND her other six children. In an exclusive interview with momlogic, one neighbor, who asked to remain anonymous, revealed that the very pregnant young mom was THE hot topic of conversation at the neighborhood Christmas party. He says, "From what I heard she likes kids, she wants a jillion kids. She even lied to the doctors who impregnated her." The grandmother of the octuplets told the LA Times she never expected fertility treatments would lead her to conceive her eight babies. Neither doctors nor family members have commented on whether or not she used donor sperm. When asked if he knew who the father of the baby is, the neighbor said, "She is single. She used a sperm donor, someone she knew, who donated sperm a long time ago. He donated the sperm for the first six kids and she used his frozen sperm for these one. I don't think the sperm donor knows about these eight kids. He was not involved." According to the neighbor, the parents are very supportive of their daughter and even lost their own home in an effort to support her. "The parents lost their house supporting their daughter," the neighbor went on. "They actually bought this house for her, but then they lost their house supporting her and her kids and they had to move in with her. And now her father has to go back to Iraq to earn more money to support her. Her father either works as a truck driver or an interpreter [in Iraq]." As to whether the mother herself works, the neighbor says: "She's a professional student and I want to know where the money's coming from to do this. Maybe she's using her student loans to do it." The family is very private: "They stick to themselves and you can always hear the grandma yelling at the kids because they are so rambunctious." Although many think the birth of the octuplets is a happy miracle, the neighbor disagrees. "We should find out who the doctor is and where the money came from because this is irresponsible. The girl seemed a little off -- and I don't want to be paying for her kids." |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-01-30 15:34 |
| #11 Wonder if there are more like her? Does Pelosi know something we don't? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-01-30 15:32 |
| #10 Well, you wanted to know why the State of California is going broke... |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-01-30 15:26 |
| #9 For the medical industry maybe... The octuplets, who were born by Caesarean section and delivered by a 46-member team of doctors at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center in Bellflower, Calif., arrived nine weeks premature. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-01-30 14:11 |
| #8 Something tells me ALL American taxpayers have just become...... the "father." A one-woman stimulus package! |
| Posted by: tipper 2009-01-30 13:14 |
| #7 Reports have surfaced that the 6 children born to the woman prior to the octuplets were also conceived via medical fertilization assistance. |
| Posted by: tipper 2009-01-30 13:02 |
| #6 There's been no mention of the octuplets' father, Kauffman observes. Something tells me ALL American taxpayers have just become...... the "father." |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-01-30 11:58 |
| #5 More. (CBS) CBS News has learned that the family of the octuplets born this week outside Los Angeles filed for bankruptcy and abandoned a home a little over a year-and-a-half ago. Early Show national correspondent Hattie Kauffman says the mother is in her mid-thirties and lives with her parents. There's been no mention of the octuplets' father, Kauffman observes. The grandfather, she adds, is apparently going to head back to his native Iraq to earn money for the growing family. He told CBS News he's a former Iraqi military man. Kauffman reported Thursday, and the octuplets' maternal grandmother now confirms to the Los Angeles Times, that the babies' mother already had six young children. And a family acquaintance had told Kauffman that two of the six other kids are twins, and the six range in age from about two to about seven. I have a feelin a real shitstorm is developing... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-01-30 11:53 |
| #4 I believe it was unconscionable on the Doctors' part. Don't know if the state paid for the treatments or not (would be pretty stupid to do so, so maybe they did). |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2009-01-30 11:48 |
| #3 So if she's on welfare, I take it the state of California would have to authorize the fertility treatments, yes? So who's a bigger idiot here, the doctors that okayed it or the idiot bureaucrat who approved it? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-01-30 11:40 |
| #2 Well that answers three of them... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-01-30 11:34 |
| #1 It's already being reported that she currently receives over $1,600.00/month in welfare. These new young 'uns will add just under $1,000.00 to that. Is she married? No. She lives with her parents in a 3-bedroom house. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2009-01-30 11:28 |