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Woman gives birth to octuplets

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 8:25 pm
by ne1410s
All are doing fine according to doctors.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2 ... as-gi.html

Re: Woman gives birth to octuplets

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 8:45 pm
by Emily_Litella
Let the intelligent design folks put THAT in their pipe and smoke it! One species giving birth to a completely separate species, heck, a completely different phylum.

Huh? Whats that?

Oh my....nevermind.

Re: Woman gives birth to octuplets

Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 8:51 pm
by Bob Juch
They probably charged her $10 per baby. :P

Re: Woman gives birth to octuplets

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 12:19 am
by Bob78164
The delivery occurred at the hospital where Sparky was born. --Bob

Re: Woman gives birth to octuplets

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 4:57 am
by Estonut
Bob Juch wrote:They probably charged her $10 per baby. :P
I don't get your razz.

Re: Woman gives birth to octuplets

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 6:26 am
by Bob Juch
Estonut wrote:
Bob Juch wrote:They probably charged her $10 per baby. :P
I don't get your razz.
Kaiser Permanente charges a $10 co-pay.

Re: Woman gives birth to octuplets

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 6:39 am
by Estonut
Bob Juch wrote:
Estonut wrote:
Bob Juch wrote:They probably charged her $10 per baby. :P
I don't get your razz.
Kaiser Permanente charges a $10 co-pay.
[EdMcMahon]I did not know that![/EdMcMahon]

Thanks. That makes much more sense to me now.

Re: Woman gives birth to octuplets

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 7:16 am
by gsabc
The report I heard this AM is that she plans to breastfeed. My thought was that she doesn't have enough, in several senses of the term.

I hope she and her spouse don't plan on sleeping for the next eighteen years.

Re: Woman gives birth to octuplets

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 7:21 am
by minimetoo26
Sarcastic thoughts:

TLC has that hospital on speed-dial

Kate is nagging Jon to reverse the vasectomy before their cash flow is compromised by these upstarts

Two more tries and they pass the Duggars

Real thoughts:

Boy, do they have their hands full, literally and figuratively. I wish them well. Twice as many as I have in one shot? Just wow.

Re: Woman gives birth to octuplets

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 7:44 am
by Fluffy
Hah!

Amateur....

Re: Woman gives birth to octuplets

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 7:46 am
by gsabc
Fluffy wrote:Hah!

Amateur....
Like you, she didn't see the sign that said "Do not litter".

(challenging Jay for BPOTD)

Re: Woman gives birth to octuplets

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:31 am
by tlynn78
They probably charged her $10 per baby
Thanks. That makes much more sense to me now

Don't feel bad. I thought he was blaming Rexer.


t.

Re: Woman gives birth to octuplets

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 2:46 pm
by WheresFanny
minimetoo26 wrote:Sarcastic thoughts:

TLC has that hospital on speed-dial

Kate is nagging Jon to reverse the vasectomy before their cash flow is compromised by these upstarts

Two more tries and they pass the Duggars

Real thoughts:

Boy, do they have their hands full, literally and figuratively. I wish them well. Twice as many as I have in one shot? Just wow.
Doesn't count if you pull a McCaughey and take fertility drugs. Has anybody ever actually beat the Dionnes (natural identical multiples)?

I don't watch Jon and Kate because she annoys me, but aren't some of their kids adopted?

Go natural, go Duggar!

Re: Woman gives birth to octuplets

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 2:54 pm
by Thousandaire
Bob Juch wrote:
Estonut wrote:
Bob Juch wrote:They probably charged her $10 per baby. :P
I don't get your razz.
Kaiser Permanente charges a $10 co-pay.
I thought it meant Rexer was the father.

Re: Woman gives birth to octuplets

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 4:46 pm
by tlynn78
I don't watch Jon and Kate because she annoys me, but aren't some of their kids adopted?
She annoys me, too, but they are all from her own belly. She parlayed the stretch marks into a free tummy tuck.

t.

Re: Woman gives birth to octuplets

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 5:25 pm
by Estonut
tlynn78 wrote:
They probably charged her $10 per baby
Thanks. That makes much more sense to me now

Don't feel bad. I thought he was blaming Rexer.
I thought of Rexer, too, but saw no connection besides the $10 figure. Then I wondered if $80 meant something. I'm not too good with insurance jokes...

Re: Woman gives birth to octuplets

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:35 am
by andrewjackson
I saw on the news this morning that neighbors are saying that this woman already has six kids including a set of twins. There are supposed to be four boys and two girls already.

Hard to believe that this woman was given fertility treatments if she already had six kids.

Re: Woman gives birth to octuplets

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:37 am
by Big-Haired Mini
andrewjackson wrote:I saw on the news this morning that neighbors are saying that this woman already has six kids including a set of twins. There are supposed to be four boys and two girls already.

Hard to believe that this woman was given fertility treatments if she already had six kids.
New series: Keeping Up With the Duggars!

Re: Woman gives birth to octuplets

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:45 am
by gsabc
andrewjackson wrote:I saw on the news this morning that neighbors are saying that this woman already has six kids including a set of twins. There are supposed to be four boys and two girls already.

Hard to believe that this woman was given fertility treatments if she already had six kids.
Dr. Tim Johnson on ABC was saying that if there were treatments, the clinic or doctor involved was highly unprofessional and unethical. If it was IVF, he said that the usual procedure implants no more than four fertilized eggs at a time. If it was fertility drugs, there are ways to monitor how many eggs have dropped and to tell the couple to hold off with sex for the month if too many are present. The dangers to the health of the mother and the potential children are generally considered too great otherwise.

Re: Woman gives birth to octuplets

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:56 am
by Big-Haired Mini
gsabc wrote:
andrewjackson wrote:I saw on the news this morning that neighbors are saying that this woman already has six kids including a set of twins. There are supposed to be four boys and two girls already.

Hard to believe that this woman was given fertility treatments if she already had six kids.
Dr. Tim Johnson on ABC was saying that if there were treatments, the clinic or doctor involved was highly unprofessional and unethical. If it was IVF, he said that the usual procedure implants no more than four fertilized eggs at a time. If it was fertility drugs, there are ways to monitor how many eggs have dropped and to tell the couple to hold off with sex for the month if too many are present. The dangers to the health of the mother and the potential children are generally considered too great otherwise.
I saw this, and I'm wondering if some of it is prompted by the reality shows I like to rag on. I've read the Duggar thread on TWoP, and there seems to be a competition among some of the posters to have enough kids to catch the eye of TLC! Sheesh!

Re: Woman gives birth to octuplets

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 12:42 pm
by marriedmefliesfree
WheresFanny wrote: I don't watch Jon and Kate because she annoys me, but aren't some of their kids adopted?

I don't think so...a good friend of mine is deep in the heart of fertility treatment land, and said that Kate took Clomid. I think it is a drug that increases the number of eggs ripe for fertilization per cycle.

Re: Woman gives birth to octuplets

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 12:48 pm
by peacock2121
marriedmefliesfree wrote:
WheresFanny wrote: I don't watch Jon and Kate because she annoys me, but aren't some of their kids adopted?

I don't think so...a good friend of mine is deep in the heart of fertility treatment land, and said that Kate took Clomid. I think it is a drug that increases the number of eggs ripe for fertilization per cycle.
They did fertility treatments - both for the twins and for the six. She says that she wanted to know what it was like to just have one. They also said that they knew when they started treatment that they would not do selective reduction.

Re: Woman gives birth to octuplets

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:25 pm
by marriedmefliesfree
gsabc wrote:The report I heard this AM is that she plans to breastfeed. My thought was that she doesn't have enough, in several senses of the term.

I've heard that her babies are also getting donor breastmilk in addition to whatever she has. :D

Re: Woman gives birth to octuplets

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:26 pm
by wbtravis007
I'm pretty sure that I heard somewhere that they're saying that the chances are real high that the boys are gonna end up having really little wookuses.

Re: Woman gives birth to octuplets

Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 2:07 pm
by frogman042
Inconceivable