Thank you lola for posting the link
snippet from link Lola posted:
"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."
It does not report if the Grandfather is a paternal or maternal Grandfather.
And:
"Suleman told the Times her daughter had embryos implanted and, "They all happened to take."
So can we safely assume that this was a IVF procedure?
And:
"Doctors at the hospital where the octuplets were born, Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center in Bellflower, Calif., some 17 miles southeast of L.A., say
the patient came to them already three months pregnant.
Asked at a news conference whether fertility assistance should be provided for a mother who already has multiple children, Dr. Harold Henry, part of the team that delivered the octuplets, said, "Kaiser has no policy on that, adding that doctors counseled the woman on her options.
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The options," said Henry, "were to continue the pregnancy or to selectively abort. The patient chose to continue the pregnancy."
Bolding in above quotes from article by me.
So she didn't seek prenatal care from the Dr's that delivered her babies until she was 3 months pregnant? Why didn't the doctor who gave her the fertility treatments and/or IVF follow her care?
If faced with the proposition of having to abort any of my children, I would continue to carry, but that's just me and my choices.
And:
"On The Early Show Friday, Michael Tucker, scientific director of Georgia Reproductive Specialists, says all these developments leave him "stunned.
As the story's unfolded and it's gone from the potential use of just fertility drugs, or misuse thereof, to actual, apparently, IVF (in-vitro fertilization) with transfer of embryos, this is just remarkable to me that any practitioner in our field of reproductive medicine would undertake such a practice."
Tucker, who has a doctorate in reproductive physiology,
says it's "absolutely" possible the octuplets' mother got pregnant with them by taking fertility drugs on her own without the help of a clinic, "and that seemed the most plausible scenario, simply because the profession, we're policed by the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, has focused so minutely on the fact that we need to reduce the number of embryos that we transfer. We really are all about seeking the one, the one embryo that's going to make the healthy, single-born baby."
Aha! Did she treat herself with fertility drugs? Curious to know?And:
"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."
This is very concerning, how could they afford fertility treatments but yet not afford to keep a roof over the children's heads that they do have?
And:
""Suffice to say," Tucker responded, "I've been in this business for 25 years now. And it's pretty much standard practice in
all clinics to have some form of psychological evaluation of the patient. Also, their sociological circumstances. And I'm stunned, actually, that a clinic would proceed to treat a patient in this circumstance and then even to get to perhaps the transfer of embryos and ponder the transfer in, I believe, the lady's mid-30s, a 35-year-old -- she should be receiving two embryos, maximum, as a transfer into her uterus to have had eight transferred is somewhat -- is extremely irresponsible."
Bolding by me:
I can see where this is going to be investigated more in depth if a clinic or Dr. didn't follow guidelines that are accepted practices in this field.
