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...many couples, deciding whether to sacrifice some of their children to save the others would pose an agonizing moral dilemma. For Bobbi, 29, and Kenny, 27, it was a no-brainer. As deeply religious Baptists, they are utterly opposed to abortion. "That just wasn't an option," Kenny told reporters last week. "We were trusting in the Lord for the outcome." By conventional medical standards, the McCaugheys were taking a huge gamble; by their own, they were simply living their faith...
...just about everyone on the planet now knows, their faith was rewarded. Not only did the septuplets emerge from Bobbi's womb intact last Wednesday, but they were healthier than anyone had dared hope. "I didn't think we'd have this kind of outcome," admitted an exhausted, exultant Mahone the day after she and Drake delivered the babies by caesarean section. "It just strikes me as a miracle." Kenny McCaughey's first public utterance, issued at a press conference at Missionary Baptist Church in Carlisle after a visit with his four new sons and three new daughters...
None of that was on the McCaugheys' minds when they first went to see Hauser last spring. Their daughter Mikayla was 16 months old, and all they wanted was to give her a brother or sister. Bobbi had had trouble conceiving Mikayla; she had finally become pregnant after spending a fruitless year on one fertility drug and then switching to the more powerful Metrodin. Neither she nor Kenny wanted to wait a year this time, so she went on Metrodin right away--though, on Hauser's advice, at a lower dose. But while doctors can carefully control the number...
Once the McCaugheys had decided that Bobbi would carry all the babies, the priority for her prenatal care was simple: if the septuplets were to have a chance, they had to be kept inside the womb as long as possible. The milestone her two perinatologists were shooting for was 28 weeks, the critical point at which a baby's organs and nervous system are sufficiently formed to offer a good chance of survival...
...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...