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Indeed, in her first television interview, Nadya Suleman told NBC's Ann Curry on the Today show that it was her decision to have all the embryos implanted despite being told what the recommendations were. "All I wanted was children," she said. "It turned out imperfectly." She also explained that six embryos were implanted in each of the IVF procedures that resulted in her previous six children. This time, apparently, all of them took, and she decided to bring them all to term. Asked how she was going to care for such an enormous family, Suleman said she was returning...
...Mellinger has told his wife, Kim, that this is his final Army posting, meaning he's likely to retire sometime next year. The couple has no children, although Mellinger has three grown kids from a prior marriage. The last draftee then plans to move to Alaska, where he spent much of his career, and spend his days reading history and running with his two Dobermans. "When I tell my wife it's my last assignment, she just rolls her eyes," he concedes. "This is my sixth 'last assignment...
When Nadya Suleman, 33, had her eight children at a Kaiser Permanente hospital in Bellflower, Calif., one medical guideline had already been broken. The American Society for Reproductive Medicine, a leading organization in the field of reproductive medicine, recommends that a woman under the age of 35 should have no more than two embryos implanted by way of in vitro fertilization (IVF). That limit was chosen, says Sean Tipton, director of public affairs for the society, in order to avoid multiple births through IVF that would expose both mother and offspring to significant health risks. This is merely...
This much seems certain. According to her mother Angela Suleman, all 14 of Nadya's children were conceived through IVF with the same sperm donor. Nadya confirmed in a TV interview that six were implanted, with two resulting in twins. The sperm donor remains unidentified; one person ruled out was Nadya's ex-husband Marcos Gutierrez (their divorce was finalized last year). Angela told the Associated Press that her daughter opted for IVF treatment because her Fallopian tubes were "plugged up" and that she decided to have more children so the frozen embryos left over from her previous fertilizations wouldn...
...unusual situation has prompted some experts in the bioethics and reproductive-technology fields to re-examine the need for more regulation of IVF treatments. "The right to reproduce isn't unlimited. You can't put children at risk. The field of reproductive medicine and fertility treatment has an absolute responsibility to look out for the children it is creating in new ways. And in this case it seems to have failed," says Arthur Caplan, chair of the department of medical ethics at the University of Pennsylvania, arguing for a need for professional regulations. "[The process] should look more like adoption...