Jan 30 2009
When Six Children Aren’t Enough
I don’t know much about the woman in California who just gave birth to eight children. This is not a news story but instead my opinion on a woman’s need to have invitro fertilization, or IVF treatments, when they already have 6 children at home and are a single mother.
I don’t know how much of what I am reading is true about this woman in California. She just gave birth to octuplets and doesn’t want to be named in the news. From what I’ve read, the father is unknown and she will not have her name released to the media. The fact that octuplet mother in California does not want to be identified makes my juvenile court investigator mind start buzzing. Is there a reason that a single mother of now 14 children does not want the state to know who she is?
I’m not trying to bash anyone trying to have a family. I myself have had to IVF treatments in order to start my family, but I have no children, a spouse, a good income and a big house to put them in. We have one child on the way. One, a single daughter, that is on her way in April 2009 and we can afford to have her.
I have some questions for this mother that we, the interested public, will never get answered. If I was interviewing her for a juvenile court investigation I would ask:
1. Who is the father of your previous 6 children?
2. Who is the father of your eight octuplets?
3. How do you support yourself and your children?
4. Why would any doctor give you IVF treatments when you already had six children?
Everyone has the right to have children, even couples that are infertile. I think it is clear that the previous six children showed that she wasn’t infertile. A mother with six children has enough to deal with and any doctor that would provide IVF treatments to a mother of six should be ashamed of themselves.
Eight children at once? How is she, even if she lives with her family, going to take care of 14 children? Although I will state again that we all have a right to have children, I believe that you only can exercise that right if you are able to care for their basic needs without financial support from the state.
Am I against welfare? No. There are many people, for whatever reason, need to lean on the state for financial assistance. Job losses and a recessive economy is only exacerbating this need right now. I don’t know this woman’s financial situation, but unless she is independently wealthy I have no idea how she can afford 14 children and care for them at the same time. I am only guessing, but maybe she is receiving state or federal benefits?
Why should we, the tax paying public support any family that has grown out of proportion out of selfishness?
No reasonable doctor would tell a woman to keep 7, oops, I mean 8 (the surprise one) fetuses. I would hate to reduce any pregnancy and I strongly believe that it is immoral to reduce, but when the health of the other fetuses is of great concern, why, oh why would you keep all 8?
I am not in this woman’s situation (thankfully). I don’t know her and I only know what I read, but I am opinionated. What in the world is she going to do with 14 children?
Think about it. The cost of a formula for a new baby, diapers, clothing, furniture, all add up quickly when you are having one. What happens when this is multiplied times 8?
Wow! That is insane!
Do you know, is she planning on keeping them?
What if she’s a surrogate? LOL Could you imagine?
I’m also surprised that she’d have IVF if she doesn’t have a spouse. Maybe she’s just waiting for the highest bidder to spill all the beans too. (Barbara Walters? FOX? Entertainment Tonight?)
~Mabela~
www.ifimnotmistaken.today.com
I had one and that was quite a handful, I will pass on the eight all at once lol.
Maybe she’s into cooking? A variation on this perhaps? http://spanishfood.about.com/od/maincourses/r/cochinilloasado.htm
There have been some conflicting info on this woman.. I read that she was a single mother, and that her husband was going to return to Iraq soon. An article said she *might* have 6 other kids, others have no doubts about it. There’s also speculation that she got fertility drugs off the ‘net, precisely because no doctor would, in good conscience, put a mother of 6 on fertility treatment!
I suppose her motivation will remain for her to know, and for the press to find out, or speculate about!
I have been getting a lot of flack for this post (but that is ok, because I’ve also been getting a ton of traffic!). From CBS News, I learned that she now has 14 children under 7 years old, she declared bankruptcy last year and she lives as a single mother with her parents in a three bedroom house.
As far as the IVF treatments, 8 embryos were put back in this woman. This requires doctor intervention. I’ve had comments on reddit “they just throw a bunch back in”…not quite. They put back in embryos according to embryo quality and mother’s age. 8 is never an option, more like 3 and that is if mother is over 35 and the embryos look somewhat poor.
This woman clearly has physcological issues or some type of menal illness. She saids she always wanted to be a mother but being a mother and being irresponsible are two completely different things. This is some type of cry for attention even though she claims she is not wanting any attention. This woman needs mental help ASAP.