Araceli Castro, right, who identified herself as the nanny. Courtesy AP
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Octuplets’ Grandmother: My Daughter Was Obsessed With Having Children
The mother of six who gave birth to octuplets in California this week just wanted “one more girl” and was obsessed with having children, her mother said.
Nadya Suleman, 33, conceived all 14 of her babies through in vitro fertilization, her mother told The Associated Press. She isn’t married and has been fixated on being a mother since she was a teenager, Angela Suleman said.
Last year, Nadya Suleman decided to have more embryos implanted, hoping to have “just one more girl,” her mother told The Los Angeles Times.
“And look what happened. Octuplets. Dear God,” Angela Suleman told the newspaper Friday. She said she wasn’t supportive of her daughter’s decision to try to get pregnant again.
She said she warned her daughter, “I’m going to be gone” when she gets home from the hospital.
Reports Friday cast Nadya Suleman in an unflattering light. CBS News reported that the single mother filed for bankruptcy and abandoned her home less than two years ago.
Fourteen kids and a free ride at Mom’s? That doesn’t seem right, somehow.
#29. “A woman’s right to choose is not subject to restriction.”
oopsie – you are on the wrong side of this debate. if those frozen embryos are people with rights (as the anti-choice crowd claims), don’t they have the right to be set free from their icy freezer prison? and the more the better?
#40, MLO,
What the eff are you babbling about? You are screaming the mother did wrong yet you admit you don’t the facts. Who the hell died and put you in charge?
This woman deserves no money, and if it is given her, it should be confiscated by the state of California for all expenses incurred by the state in the care of these newborns.
How much has the State spent so far? Oh, right, you have no idea. FYI, the vast majority of the costs will be for the babies, not her.
She has acted in a manner to endanger both her older children and these newborns. The maternal mortality rate in higher order multiples is quite high and she willingly risked her children’s future of having a mother.
It is called a high risk pregnancy. As with anything, there is risk. Although it is not as common as it once was, birth is still risky for both, child and mother. HOWEVER, you can not claim she is irresponsible because she had given birth; that is a natural right to control her own body. Damn, I sure hope you aren’t claiming you should have any say over what she does with her body.
I don’t know all the facts – and no one does – but the more I hear, the more I suspect some sort of medical fraud. I hope there is a police investigation.
Why should the police investigate when you even admit you know of no law being broken. Unless there is a valid complaint of a law having been broken, that would be harassment.
This falls outside of the realm of normal medical practice and the medical community is condemning it as malpractice on the part of the doctor who transferred these embryos. At least, if what we have heard is true.
And what you have heard is mostly conjecture and hearsay. If you don’t know the facts, then shut the eff up. There are enough problems in the world without you getting your lacy undies in a bunch over something none of your business and which you are ignorant of.
KD Martin is right. What’s up with these clinics? Nobody’s holding them responsible for catering to this woman’s lunacy. Here we have responsible people, who can’t get a loan from the banks for a home or car. Or to keep their small business afloat. But this fertility clinic doesn’t care what this woman’s financial status is. They take her pocket money, and squirt some more embryos into her. And all this time, the government has had this ban on Stem Cell research. Because they pretend to care about human egg cells being messed around with. But it’s OK to embryo implant to the limit, any nut job that wants to. With little regulation or oversight as to who gets these. Disregarding all the precautionary state laws forbidding marriages to close relatives, to prevent birth defects. But there’s nothing stopping sperm/egg donors from being being as prolific as they want.
#43, Glenn,
What’s up with these clinics? Nobody’s holding them responsible for catering to this woman’s lunacy.
What she does with her body is none of your concern. If she wants to tatto the Charge of the Light Brigade, that is her choice. If she want to sleep with 10 guys or 0 guys in one night, again, that is her choice. If she wants to wear adult diapers to bed, that is her choice. If she wants to have several of her frozen embryos implanted at one time, again THAT IS HER CHOICE.
Here we have responsible people, who can’t get a loan from the banks for a home or car.
A totally different story. I hope you aren’t feeling the effects of the economy too strongly, but that is totally irrelevant.
But this fertility clinic doesn’t care what this woman’s financial status is.
Why should they care? As far as I know, her check cleared. They were her embryos. It was her uterus. There is no law against doing this. They might very well have been successfully sued if they refused.
And all this time, the government has had this ban on Stem Cell research.
Again, totally irrelevant. And BTW, there was never a ban on stem cell research. There was a ban on using Federal money for stem cell research but private research was never stopped.
With little regulation or oversight as to who gets these.
Which makes what she did legal and none of your business.
Disregarding all the precautionary state laws forbidding marriages to close relatives, to prevent birth defects.
Is there any evidence that she used sperm from a close relative?
Can you actually point to humans actually passing on birth defects by close marriage? A good scientific study, not anecdotal stories.