BY TRACY CONNOR
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Friday, January 30th 2009, 5:45 PM
New York Daily News
The mother of the octuplets born this week is a single woman who lives with her bankrupt parents - and her six other kids!
The name of the 33-year-old California woman has not been released, but her mother, Angela Suleman, revealed her daughter underwent in vitro fertilization to get pregnant.
She never expected so many of the implanted embryos would develop into fetuses, but rejected the idea of aborting some of them.
"What do you suggest she should have done?" Suleman told the Los Angeles Times. "She refused to have them killed. That is a very painful thing."
The confirmation that the woman used IVF to conceive the eight-pack is sure to raise an ethical furor.
The medical establishment has guidelines that discourage doctors from implanting too many embryos because multiple births are risky for mother and children.
The octuplets were born Monday, nine weeks premature. They weighed between 1 pound, 8 ounces and 3 pounds, 4 ounces and will be in the hospital for weeks.
The Web site momlogic.com quoted a neighbor as saying a sperm donor was used to conceive the octuplets and the six previous children, who range in age from 2 to 7.
Suleman said raising 14 children will be "difficult" - perhaps an understatement considering the family's reported financial troubles.
They filed bankruptcy and abandoned a home less than two years ago. The babies' grandfather is hoping to raise some cash by heading to his native Iraq as a contractor.
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Bankrupt.
8 children = HUGE costs for births.
Who paid?
Who financed this?
And now tell me that we have no medical care for the poor.
I have nothing to add to this story.
...the expense of raising 14 children will likely be prohibitive, citing studies that estimate it costs roughly $2.5 million to raise a child to adulthood. Using that math, raising 14 children would cost roughly $35 million.
"And that's basic stuff," he said. "That doesn't include swimming lessons and things like that. It's very costly and hopefully the planning that needs to be done was done upfront."
Sophy continued, "14 is a large number of children, so yes, it'll be 14 times the stress."
AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
$35 million. Even if it is $10 million. She can't afford a home, no man would come within 100 feet of her, let alone marry her for fear she would pop out another 4 kids.
In 30 years of practice, "I have never provided fertility treatment to a woman with six children," or ever heard of a similar case, said Adamson, director of Fertility Physicians of Northern California.
14 children and a single mother ... I am, beyond words - stick a fork in me, cuz its all over with this one.
Margaret Sanger what happened.
The hospital, Kaiser Permanente in Bellflower, Calif., did not release the mother's name, but the Sun, without citing sources, identified her as 33-year-old Nadya Suleman. She does not appear to have a husband.
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