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...other families, health problems have been the chief concern. In 1985, Patti Frustaci of Orange, Calif., gave birth to septuplets; one was stillborn, and three died within 19 days. Cerebral palsy and retardation had been diagnosed by the time the three survivors reached age 3. Ultimately, the family won a $2.7 million settlement against the clinic and the doctor who prescribed fertility drugs for Frustaci. She came back for further treatments, however, and this time gave birth to robust twins. She has since left her family; the children are being raised by their father...
...four, sometimes even eight or nine, fetuses. Not only does such a pregnancy threaten the mother's health, but each extra fetus increases the risk of miscarriage or premature birth, which can cause an infant's death or irreparable brain damage. In a widely publicized 1985 case, Californian Patti Frustaci gave birth prematurely to septuplets; only three survived...
Smiling wanly, Patti Frustaci stood proudly outside Childrens Hospital in Orange County, Calif., holding tiny Stephen Earl in her arms. After nearly 20 weeks in intensive care, the last of her three surviving septuplets was finally on his way home. But last week, only four days after that seemingly happy occasion, Patti and her husband Sam filed a $3.25 million malpractice suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court against both the clinic and the physician who administered the fertility drugs responsible for the conception of Stephen Earl and his six siblings. Said Patti: "Life will never be what...
DIED. James Martin Frustaci, 17 days, the third of Patti and Sam Frustaci's twelve-week-premature septuplets to succumb; of cardiopulmonary arrest as a result of hyaline membrane disease, which afflicts many premature babies, including all the surviving Frustaci infants; in Orange, Calif. One of the seven, a girl, was stillborn; another died of lung disease in his third day, and another girl is not expected to live. The other three are said to be "showing daily improvement...
Hand in hand and smiling hopefully last week as they left St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, Calif., Patti and Samuel Frustaci could hardly have been anything but quintessentially proud parents. Though two of their seven tiny infants had not survived the largest U.S. multiple birth ever, the remaining five were clinging to life and now have names. Previously dubbed babies A to E, they are Patricia Ann, James Martin, Stephen Earl, Bonnie Marie and Richard Charles. "They're beautiful," said Mrs. Frustaci. "I just hope they live." All have a better than fifty-fifty chance of survival. But James Martin...