I just read this ariticle on yahoo.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090130/...B_j6aQiwUazJV4

I've been trying to coniceve for a little over 2 years now which means I've been taking fertility drugs. The doctor made it very clear that there is a high risk of multiples even when they keep a close eye on your eggs. My doctors have also highly recomended not to try to concieve when there are too many eggs. So how this woman didn't expect to get pregnant with multiples I'll never know. I doubt that the doctors wouldn't discuss the risk with their patients in the USA.

The woman already had 6 healthy children. I don't know why she felt the need to do infertility treatments and risk having multiples.

I can't say I disagree with her doing the infertility treatments since I've been taking infertility drugs myself, but I just don't understand why she would want to do something like that if she already had 6 healthy children. She could have died carrying all those children and she woudl have left 6 children behind and any of the babies that survived.

There are women like me who are going through infertility treatments so we are able to just get one child hoping not to get pregnant with anymore than twins, so I just think it's crazy to go through infertility treatment when you already have 6 children.

Oh well! I guess it's her life. Just as long as he doesn't neglect or abuse the children then it's none of my business. She's living with her parents and not me. (lol).

I also blame the physicians for allowing her to do this even though she clearly doesn't have any trouble having children!

Just out of interest, how old is she?

The article didn't say how old she was. It just said that she was still fairly young. I'm guessing she's in her early 30's if she has 6 other children.

The woman doesn't want to be known. Reporters found out that she had 6 other children, had infertility treatment done, and still lives with her parents through the woman's mother and neighbors. The woman's mother said that the woman will come foward with more details when she's ready to.

The woman is already getting help. She got a life time supply of dipers.

The doctor in the article said it's not his job to tell the woman how many children she can and can not have. However, I would think a good doctor wouldn't put her through infertility treatment if she already has 6 healthy children. Infertility treatments can be dangerous.

I was so happy last month when the doctor told me it looked like I could try naturally that month. I'm so worried about becoming pregnant with triplets or more even though they keep a close eye on me to make sure I don't produce too many eggs. I would feel horriable if I wound up pregnant with triplets or more and some or all of the babies wound up dieing or had health problems.

From the way the article is written it sounds like the woman doesn't even realize that some of the babies could wind up having severe health problems.

I have to admit the first thought that ran through my mind was "wow, she must have been big". Been through 3 pregnancies myself ..

Melissa, I'm sure it will happen for you and your husband, don't give up hope.

Thank you for the kind words. I'm getting impatient, but I haven't given up home. The reason why I'm getting impatient is because in a way I wanted a child when we first got married. About 6 months after we got married. I never told anyone that. Not even my husband because I knew I wasn't ready. I wanted to make sure we had a good stable marriage going and that we had the money to take care of a baby. I was also still depressed from missing my family. I waited 2 years before telling my husband I was ready for a baby.

I just assumed once I was ready then I could easily try for one and become pregnant within in 4 or 5 months. Apparently it didn't work out that way.

I'm surprised the article doesn't mention her having severe back problems or something. Even if the woman was a plus size woman carrying that many babies must put a strain on your back even when you are on bed rest.

Didn't realize this was in Whittier, California. I went to school in Whittier and worked in the next city over for years.
I still only live about a hour away from Whittier. Of course Whittier is the city tricky Dick Nixon made famous. "I'm not a crook!"

This is the latest article on the woman. I guess she finally decided to be known which makes me believe she did all this just to get attention.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090131/...e_us/octuplets

I hope the doctor who treated her looses his job. It's scary to know there are doctors like him out there.

Sure it may not be his job to say how many children she can or can't have but it is his job to make sure that the woman is healthy and to overdue the treatment.

If this woman has been obsessed with having children since she was a teenager then she has some mental issues she needed to deal with before having children. I knew I wanted children in the future when I was a teenager but I was not obsessed with having children. I did not want to try to have a baby when I was a teenager.

"Her daughter's obsession with children caused Angela Suleman considerable stress, so she sought help from a psychologist, who told her to order her daughter out of the house.

"Maybe she wouldn't have had so many kids then, but she is a grown woman," Angela Suleman said. "I feel responsible and I didn't want to throw her out."

The mother should have listened to the therepist! Apparently this woman is able to keep having children like that because she has help and support from her mother.

I have a feeling that once the grandmother decides she had enough the woman will be another "Susan Smith".

""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."

Ya, yet another woman who wants to live off people's hard earned tax money! Sure lets screw over all the elderly people who worked hard all their lives by giving them less of our tax money and more to a psychotic woman. That's just one example though.

"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."

If she has a degree in adolescent development then she should have known better not to have a doctor implant so many eggs in her! Where did she get her degree at?

I'll laugh if she manages to get her master degree in counseling.

"Her fertility doctor has not been identified. Her mother told the Los Angeles Times all the children came from the same sperm donor but she declined to identify him."

Ya, go figure! The doctor knows he'll be loosing his liscens if he is known!

Normally I don't like to judge people, but in this situation innocent children are invovled. It's not just her body and her life.

And to think I'm scared to death of becoming pregnant with just twins because the health risk is higher and it'll cost more money to take care of them.

They live in a 3 bedroom house with 16 people and she doesn't even have a husband. What was she thinking?! Oh, and she has a set of twins only 2 years old. Poverini.

How big are those 3 bedrooms? If they are average sized then I think child protective service needs to get invovled. How the heck can 14 children live safely in an average sized 3 bedroom house?