Originally Posted By alexbook I don't know if this is a national story or just local to So Cal: A woman was expecting septuplets (7 babies) and surprised the doctors by delivering octuplets (8 babies). Babies and mother are doing well. On the radio this morning, I heard they'd taken the last two off respirators. Quite an amazing story. <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-octuplets27-2009jan27,0,2901858.story" target="_blank">http://www.latimes.com/news/la...58.story</a>
Originally Posted By Ursula I've watched this story on the news and I'm so happy for the family. What a pleasant surprise! I'm glad they are healthy and everyone seems okay.
Originally Posted By mickeymeg I don't know if that would be considered a surprise or a shock =) I am glad they are all doing well though. It sounds like they have a great start in the world.
Originally Posted By LuLu I didn't comment when I first read this topic, but now that more details have been revealed, I'm just gonna say: This is so, so wrong. Let WW3 begin...
Originally Posted By tinkerbell1962 Oh, LuLu I know what you mean. She already has 6 children - including a set of twins! What the heck were they thinking? What logical doctor would give her fertility treatments. I can't even imagine the costs, I think the Today Show this morning said over $400,000.00 per child? The cost will be passed on to who, us? Ok, I'll look for this topic over in World Events next.
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight If it's the lady that was on yahoo's front page, she's not even married and her mother said she has an obsession with having children. All her kids ( she has 14 of them by the way) were all invirto. She really needs a better hobby. Just one word..... CLOWN CAR!
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight Heres the link to the story on yahoo. <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090131/ap_on_re_us/octuplets" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200...ctuplets</a>
Originally Posted By mele From the news story: Yolanda Garcia, 49, of Whittier, said she helped care for Nadya Suleman's autistic son three years ago. "From what I could tell back then, she was pretty happy with herself, saying she liked having kids and she wanted 12 kids in all," Garcia told the Long Beach Press-Telegram. "She told me that all of her kids were through in vitro, and I said 'Gosh, how can you afford that and go to school at the same time?"' she added. "And she said it's because she got paid for it." _______ What the heck? Child Protective Services needs to intervene here.
Originally Posted By Disneydanny what's interesting is before the 8 showed up, she had already had 6 others.
