Octuplets mom had 6 already!!

[Miss Critter]

Evidently the mother of the octuplets born this week already had six children when she took fertility drugs to have more.

WHITTIER, Calif. ? The woman who gave birth to octuplets this week has six other children and never expected to have eight more when she took fertility treatment, her mother said.

Family: Octuplets' mother has 6 other children - Yahoo! News

 

[sunspotbaby]

She's breastfeeding the babies too!
How do you breastfeed 8 children and do anything else? Isn't it every 2 hours for one child. I can't see it. She must have some breasts on stand-by.

 

[Cheering472]

She lives with her parents too. I think she saw "Jon and Kate plus 8" and is planning on starring in "Doreen plus 14".

 

[Beachmom]

My question is...what Dr. would ever give a woman with 6 kids fertility treatments?? Just askin

 

[Beach Runner]

She lives with her parents too. I think she saw "Jon and Kate plus 8" and is planning on starring in "Doreen plus 14".

Doreen plus 14 -- LOL!

If she's living with her mother, does that mean she has no husband? I assume she can't afford her own house, so how does she afford infertility treatments? That costs many thousands of dollars per month and I don't know of any insurance companies who cover it. Neither of ours did.

 

[Here4Good]

I saw that her husband is a "contractor" in Iraq. Probably big bucks, and she's living with her mom while he's gone, so that she can get help with the kids.

 

[Beach Runner]

I saw that her husband is a "contractor" in Iraq. Probably big bucks, and she's living with her mom while he's gone, so that she can get help with the kids.

Thanks. That explains why she's living with her mom (and dad, apparently, because he was on CNN today). But knowingly having 7 (then 8) babies when she already has 6? Please explain that, someone.

 

[rapunzel]

Well, if you don't have fertility issues...and clearly this woman does not....then a dose of Clomid is probably good enough to result in eight babies.

What I wonder is why a doctor would give a woman with six kids fertility treatments at all. I mean, think about the cost to this woman is running up to indulge her baby-hoarding addiction. It's just irresponsible on so many levels. How can anyone parent fourteen children -- ten of them multiples -- effectively? They can't.

 

[Miss Critter]

I saw that her husband is a "contractor" in Iraq. Probably big bucks, and she's living with her mom while he's gone, so that she can get help with the kids.

The story I think I heard is that the grandpa is the contractor in Iraq. No mention of husband.

 

[NoHall]

Well, if you don't have fertility issues...and clearly this woman does not....then a dose of Clomid is probably good enough to result in eight babies.

What I wonder is why a doctor would give a woman with six kids fertility treatments at all. I mean, think about the cost to this woman is running up to indulge her baby-hoarding addiction. It's just irresponsible on so many levels. How can anyone parent fourteen children -- ten of them multiples -- effectively? They can't.

Are we missing something here? What exactly is the definition of "infertility?" I've seen cats who were less fertile than that.