Word: bobbi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More drugs might have helped Bobbi delay the inevitable, but, says Drake, "she'd had it." It was time to execute the plan that had been worked out over the previous two months. The delivery took place in a two-room surgical suite that normally serves cardiac patients. At 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Bobbi was partly anesthetized; 18 minutes later, the boy nicknamed Hercules (he'd been supporting the weight of all his siblings in the womb) was lifted out. "There was a lot of pressure," says anesthesiologist Dr. Dirk Brom, "but it all went like clockwork." Bobbi...
...keep things as stable as possible, Drs. Mahone and Drake ordered Bobbi to bed just three weeks after the septuplets were discovered. On Oct. 15 she was moved into the Iowa Methodist Medical Center, where she could be put on medication to stave off labor and where she and the babies were within easy reach of the labor team that had already been assembled...
Surprisingly, it wasn't until Bobbi entered the hospital that word of her remarkable pregnancy became public, though it had been an open secret in and around Carlisle for months. That may seem incredible for anyone who hasn't experienced the close-knit solidarity of a small Midwestern town. But while Bobbi's condition was discussed freely in Carlisle, the McCaugheys' neighbors quietly agreed that word shouldn't leak to outsiders. Says Kay Scholl, who runs Carlisle Foods with her husband: "Nobody asked us personally to keep it a secret, but it was known that this was the family...
Aside from the antilabor drugs, Bobbi had no special medical intervention; her treatment consisted mostly of downing vitamins, minerals and high-protein nutritional supplements. And while the risk of miscarriage, high blood pressure or other complications was always present, she stayed healthy right up to and through the magic 28-week barrier. Finally, last Tuesday, in the middle of her 30th week, the contractions that had been kept under control by medicine increased to 10 an hour...
...goes well, the kids will be out of the hospital by late January--which is when they would have been born if they had gone full term. Their mother, who has been visiting her babies by wheelchair, may leave the hospital early this week. In a television interview Friday, Bobbi said she'll be home for Thanksgiving "if I have to walk home...