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[apocalypsos]

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Also, remind me not to read any more articles about the octuplets. I was already uncomfortable with the whole situation (and the avoiding-the-media shit is hilarious ... like, seriously, you morons, how long do you think that's going to last?) and now it comes out that she was taking fertility treatments when she already had six kids at home between the ages of 7 and 2. I have a thing for reading about higher-order multiple births and I can't recall many where the parents had so many children already. The Dionne quints ... and that's about it off the top of my head. And they certainly weren't the result of fertility drugs.

On one hand, it's every woman's choice what to do with her own body and I respect that. On the other hand, I can't decide who's the biggest idiot in this situation -- the mom, the doctors who say stupid shit like, "Who am I to say six is the limit? Some people like big families," which is true until you realize how dangerous eight fucking fetuses crammed into one uterus is and who's supposed to inform the mother of that (oh, right, it's the DOCTOR), or the mom's parents who are all, "They have a huge house, but you'll never find it!" Why, is it invisible? Do you reeeeeaaaaally want to dare the media to look for it? Really? 'Cause they will, and then they won't leave until they get baby pictures. See, you think I'm joking, grandpa ...

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[marag.livejournal.com]

It's possible CNN got it wrong and they did IUI (turkey baster) rather than IVF (test tube). But if that's case, it's still medical malpractice, because when you use the drugs, you're supposed to monitor closely to see how many eggs are ripening. (There's a *reason* that when I start counting how many transvaginal ultrasounds I've had, I lose track somewhere around 50...)

I have a friend who got triplets using that method and the doctor felt *terrible* about making the wrong judgment call. But letting the mother go ahead with it when she had enough ripening eggs to make *eight* babies? The doctor has to have the brains of a flea to not have noticed that.

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

Oh, there's no arguing that a lot of stupid went into all this.