Another Multiple Birth Story

[C.Ann]

I don't care how many babies are conceived at once - or what action is taken to bring these multiple births about..

What I do care about is when the parents turn the children into a "gravy train" and attempt to live off of said children for as long as possible..

 

[emer95]

I'm about to start my journey of fertility drugs (past the Clomid stage) and I'm aware of the risk of multipes. That said, I would be MORTIFIED if I (and my children) became a news story! I would take my children and hide under a rock.

I wish you the best, Mrs. Charming! I was where you are about 11 years ago. I ended up with two very healthy daughters (one at a time!). I hope your dreams come true.

 

[bumbershoot]

When I was a child, we had one set of twins in our entire school...for all 13 years. Now, multiples are everywhere.

I can think of 4 sets of twins, just in my class, in high school. We graduated in '87.

And there was a set of identical triplets in my college the year below me...had to tell which was which by how each wore her bangs, they were so identical. All there on a softball scholarship!

The Gosselins only took drugs. Then her Doctors told her that her ovaries overstimulated that cycle and refused to inseminate her due to the risk of a high multiple pregnancy. She ignored their advice and went home with her husband --- to have unprotected sex. That certainly was not the fault of her fertility specialists.

I have heard exactly the opposite...that they had NO idea there was an overstimulation situation going on....



News is what the news people hear about and want to cover. If they don't want to cover it, they won't. Call the media, tell them to stop covering it. Doubt they will, but you could try.



ETA:

A family friend of ours had identical triplets without trying *at all*. No news people showed up, even though that's pretty dang unusual.


I remember the very first bit in the media about Suleman...it was that they had been carried extraordinarily long (and they did, kudos to her, that's amazing and wonderful, and her 8 spent far LESS time in the hospital for it) and that their mom wanted to nurse them, and the OB thought it was entirely possible.

to me, the newsworthy and wonderful part was the nursing, the OB agreeing, and that they'd been carried so much longer than even many triplets are carried.

Then it all exploded.

 

[TwinsinCA]

I have three sets of twins this year. We are departmentalized and they put one from each set in my class and the other one in my partner's class.

Just out of curiosity, are the twins all split up because the parents requested it or does the school split them up automatically?

 

[MM27]

Just out of curiosity, are the twins all split up because the parents requested it or does the school split them up automatically?

My principal will not put twins in the same class. I had a parent one year that wanted both of her sons in my class and she came at the end of the previous year and asked me if I would be okay with that. I told her that I didn't mind, but it wasn't really my decision. She went to the principal and he said NO. I don't really know his reasoning but that's always been his policy.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

The category of news is human interest that gets placed in science.

Procreating is a miracle in and of itself with or without fertility assistance--that's the science part.

The human interest--well people are interested.

Just as much as they might be interested in the local weather guy reporting from the world record pumpkin at the town fair.

If more important news came along, it would be dropped. But newscasts would be downright depressing if they focused on all of the bad. The pick me up news stories, whether or not they are newsworthy to you, help the newscast overall to be more well rounded and not a constant report of death and destruction.

I get it, but I have an overall interest in the overall news concept.

My husband is like you and is of the opinion of "why is this news" and "why do we care".

I don't mean that to sound condescending, but it about sums up his feelings on most silly things that make the news that don't involve a real event (sports, fair, international, traffic) etc. He thinks news should only be about what affects everyone.

But that is not how news works.

Also, HOM is still a feat in and of itself. The goal of every pregnancy is to cook the babies as long as possible, so if you have 3 or more who make it a while and survive, it is news. If Nadya Suleman only had twins, she would not have made the news.


As for fertility treatments, certain are against my religious beliefs--but I won't judge people who need them and seek them unless they are an octo-mom who seeks outside assistance with no real plan to care for the children. That is just reckless IMHO--even adoptive parents must provide information regarding financial stability. If their first and only response to paying for the kids is welfare, likely they won't get to adopt a child just b/c they have the warm fuzzies to have children.