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...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 to school...
...avoid multiple births through IVF that would expose both mother and offspring to significant health risks. This is merely one of several ethical, financial, psychological and medical issues that have arisen from the stunning news of the Suleman octuplets, who join the single mom's existing brood of six children living with her parents in Whittier, about 18 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles. Did Suleman know she was having so many kids? Did anyone counsel her? How did she afford this? What is her psychological profile...
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...
...funding, then that's between the mother and her doctor and whoever is paying for it," says Aanestad. "But if we find that taxpayer dollars have been used or are going to be used in the medical care of these kids, not just the eight now but the previous six, over the course of their lifetime, then it is the role of government to make sure something like this does not happen again. That's not fair to the taxpayers, the people of California, who've got their own families to try to take care...
...Industrial Relations show that Suleman received $167,908 in disability payments for a back injury suffered during a riot on Sept. 18, 1999, at the hospital where she worked. The payments were made between 2002 and 2008, during which time Suleman gave birth to most of her first six children, even though she was separated from her husband during part of this time. Psychiatric evaluations of Suleman portray a well-mannered but very depressed and anxious woman who reported severe lower-back pain, which limited her ability to pick up her 15-lb. baby without first sitting down. She also...