Woman gives birth to eight babies

[DaemonSeid]

They said it takes a village...well she has enough kids to become her own village (complete with zip code) and she is the idiot of the village.

...when they get old enough how does she expect to pay for daycare?

[nikki1920]

Again, with what money did she hire her?

As a single mom, she makes my uterus SICK!! Just SICK!

[DaemonSeid]

Waitwaitwaitwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaait.....and didn't somebody JUST post a thread that California is BROKE???

What.the.HELL??

Acceident...what accident?

Wait...i almost spit my water out at this:

Suleman, though, has hired an agent, Kauffman says, and there are reports she hopes to make money through TV interviews and even by working as an on-camera childcare expert.


WWWWWooooooowwwwww!!!

[Jill1228]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

Her mom said she got "paid" for it. I don't know what that means, exactly. But maybe one of the benefits of working at a fertility clinic is free drugs and implantation?

I dunno know about that. I know there are studies that you can sign up for that would give you a free IVF (with meds). But seeing her history (that she has 6 kids via IVF) they would have most likely rejected her outright

Originally Posted by Jen

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/...ome;topStories

Now she has an agent.

Can we say "ATTENTION WHORE"?


I knew you could

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by Jen

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/...ome;topStories

Now she has an agent.

I think she's trying to position herself to get the most out of her "15 minutes."

She's trying to position herself to become like a Jon and Kate Plus 8.

Except I don't think people will be as interested.

[honeychile]

Question: Is she an American citizen or not? I know her father is an Iraqi.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by Tippiechick

She is a habitual in-vitro offender.

This is still the best quote of the thread.

[nittanyalum]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

Wait...i almost spit my water out at this:

Suleman, though, has hired an agent, Kauffman says, and there are reports she hopes to make money through TV interviews and even by working as an on-camera childcare expert.


WWWWWooooooowwwwww!!!

Besides her litter(s) of children, she is probably saying she has the education for it too, this is from an article posted earlier about the grandma saying she's hitting the bricks supposedly when she gets home:

Nadya Suleman holds a 2006 degree in child and adolescent development from California State University, Fullerton, and as late as last spring she was studying for a master's degree in counseling, college spokeswoman Paula Selleck told the Press-Telegram.

[agzg]

I wouldn't say this lady is a childcare expert - I'd say she's a birthing expert.

[nittanyalum]

I get the anger and distaste about her appearing to want to "cash in" in a sense now after this birth (though most others before her have done just that -- the only other family to have live octuplets were GIVEN a HOUSE -- remember that?).

Where I get a little uncomfortable is getting into the argument about whether she "can" or "should" have the children. If I support a woman's choice not to have a child she doesn't want, how can I not support a woman's choice who does want to have children?

I'm not saying I'd support someone who was having kids to sell them off or who gave them up for adoption or who got pregnant repeatedly just to have abortions. But this is a woman who has a college degree, already has 6 children including a set of multiples, and by all reports, those children are happy and healthy. So who would have the right to tell this woman she "can't" have more children? The fact that every embryo "took", or that the several embryos implanted may have multiplied (which I read in another article), was unexpected and yes, a risk she took. But she chose to keep what she thought at the time were her seven children. Can't that also be argued that she took responsibility for the decisions she made? She's always wanted kids, she took steps to make sure she could have kids, she likes having kids, she's raised 6 kids successfully so far --- will 8 possibly drive her insane? Sure, who knows, but people who have never had kids do it with six right off the bat, at least she has some older kids already that can help and it won't all be brand new to her.

I guess I'm just a little taken aback at the extreme outrage some people are showing and I'm not sure why it's all our business in the first place. Didn't the media initially break this story? I don't remember hearing about her trying to get press or anything when she was pregnant with 7 and already had 6 at home. Unless a woman has a history of abuse or is cheating the social services system or something, to me, this boils down to another variation of supporting a woman's choice, IMO. I wish her and ALL those kids the best. It exhausts me just to think about it.

[KSUViolet06]

I am not outraged but I am fascinated by the reaction that she's getting.

It is VASTLY different than the reactions that other multiple families have gotten.

I mean, people have bent over backwards to donate stuff and help out families of multiples (whom all consist of two parents).

I would THINK that people would be EXTRA willing and eager to help her/donate stuff/etc because she is single, but that clearly doesn't seem to be the case here.

[nikki1920]

It's our business b/c her story was publicized. I just find it very selfish, and I am a single mom, that she keeps having children and doesn't seem to be able to care for all of them. She has 14 kids under the age of 7. And I am all about a woman's choice as well. Hell, I always wanted kids, I want more, but I would not go about having 8 children with no husband/partner, no income and no plan. It seems unfair to me that she's put all this pressure on her parents to help her with her children. In my opinion, she just didn't think it all the way through.

[agzg]

I think the question running through a lot of peoples' minds is why would she seek out more children (even only one) if her financial situation isn't stable and there's no partner to help her out.

I mean, parents' help is great, I'm all for it - but there's nothing like having a life partner to take on some of the stress of even one baby.

I give single moms a lot of props for being able to do what they do, especially by themselves. But most single mothers don't choose to be a mother of 14 - or even 7, which is what she'd have had the babies not been multiples. So I can understand the negative reaction.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by alphagamzetagam

I mean, parents' help is great, I'm all for it - but there's nothing like having a life partner to take on some of the stress of even one baby.

I give single moms a lot of props for being able to do what they do, especially by themselves. But most single mothers don't choose to be a mother of 14 - or even 7, which is what she'd have had the babies not been multiples. So I can understand the negative reaction.

I get this. I mean, I know some single moms and I am 100% sure that they didn't CHOOSE it. It is hard for me to understand how someone would choose to bear the burden of taking care of that many kids.

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by Jill1228

I dunno know about that. I know there are studies that you can sign up for that would give you a free IVF (with meds). But seeing her history (that she has 6 kids via IVF) they would have most likely rejected her outright

I don't know about it either. Perhaps I didn't express my skepticism enough. I couldn't believe anything these nuts say, because clearly the woman and her parents are Grade-A liars and charlatans.

For me, I'm not annoyed because of how many children she has...my grandparents had 13 kids, but they weren't sucking the government teat and the kids were all spaced out fairly responsibly. This woman is a leech on all of our resources. This has gone beyond talk of "reproductive freedom," and is just irresponsible.