Thursday, February 12, 2009

The Octamom

Recently there’s a woman who had eight babies all at the SAME time. Can you say OW! Lately the media has been very mad at her, because it all seems like a happy family. What we all didn’t know was she is a single mom with previously 6 kids ALL under the age of 10 now adding the octuplets. Nadya Suleman is the proud mother’s name, but the thing is why is it anyone else business what she does. Right now with how the economy is going yes it’s very irresponsible. Nadya was an only child when she was younger and always dreamed about having a bigger family. Nadya got married at a young age and expecting to start her big family she always wanted. Nadya found only out then she was reproductively challenged and only on sex alone she couldn’t produce and embryo. She said for years she tried to find every possible thing around. Her husband and she got a divorce knowing she didn’t want a husband just kids. Nadya found out the only way she could have kids was in vitro fertilization. The only thing is that can be very expensive so to save up money Nadya worked as a nurse in the psych ward. During this working something happened, a riot broke out and Nadya was going to help and she was flipped over the table which caused back problems which led to her not working. When she was not working she received disability money and by that time Nadya had enough money saved up to start her process. She went and was successful with her pregnancy having a boy, a boy, a girl, a boy and a set of twins all in a short amount of time. The person who gave her the sperm was her previous husband because she didn’t want to go to the sperm bank. She before made sure he couldn’t have any say in anything the kids did. Nadya has only a short amount of time before she can’t do in vitro anymore. She had eggs left over so she decided to use all of them and the ones that didn’t make it were ok and she was done. Well she got a lot out of it then she bargained for. She now has eight babies which was a dangerous process and could have come with many complications. All the babies are around 2 to 3 lbs. and face many problems that could happen now or in the future one of those problems could be cerebral palsy. She already has a kid with autism that she previously had named Elijah and two that have slow speech or delayed speech. She receives money from all for disability but the two will stop at some time. Nadya right now has no income coming in and faces difficulties. Her mother takes care of the 6 kids right now. The question is the media is picking on her so much and why? It wouldn’t be different for someone with that big of family that had a dad. It’s just another thing the world decides to prey on.


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