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RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:I feel sorry for those kids, there.

No doubt. Like Kendall pointed out, how can a single mother possibly give enough attention to 14 kids!?

Maybe she's playing the odds. Even if five of them turn out badly, the other nine will be okay...

Sadly... I can see that, too.

Actually, English law limits the number implanted to 3 maximum, and there has to be a very good reason to go over 2.

IIRC, doctors like to implant a lot because there's a high failure rate and they want to maximise the chance that at least one or two will take. The policy was that if a lot took, they would just remove some.

Then a few years back a woman had all eight embryos implant and grow, and refused to abort any of them on moral grounds. Lots of people praised her, until she had them all and every last one died shortly after birth. They changed the policy after that to avoid a repeat performance.

Sounds like a much more sensible policy than ours. Hell, we didn't even do a background check on this woman, apparently.

You have to have a license to drive, fly and practice some particular trades. Sometime, I say sometimes, I think you need the same to become a parent. That doctor the performed the proceedure ought to have his license revoked.

Why? The odds of this happening are worse than the lotto.

It's not as if this was all some sort of surprise when she suddenly gave birth to 8. They'd have known long before the births that there were 8 alive in there.

Heard about this on the TV news, apparently she was struggling to support 6 kids but now she's hit the big time.

They have been offered 2 million to go on Oprah.

Rochey wrote:It's not as if this was all some sort of surprise when she suddenly gave birth to 8. They'd have known long before the births that there were 8 alive in there.

Somone may have known but that particular maternity ward may not have. Depends which hospital or doctor she was seeing prior to and if she went to the same one. The doctor on call also may not have known until he showed up to play catch.

Rochey wrote:It's not as if this was all some sort of surprise when she suddenly gave birth to 8. They'd have known long before the births that there were 8 alive in there.

Highly unlikely, actually. Once you go over triplets, the chances of ultrasound detecting every embryo or fetus drop drastically. And you can't guess based on size or weight gain, because the size of each fetus drops proportionally to the number present.

While there is no legal limit to implanted embryos, many mainstream doctors are calling this case possible malpractice for implanting more than 4.

Ah, I see.

Life has officially ended for the mother and father of this little army.

Mark wrote:Life has officially ended for the mother and father of this little army.

That's the thing; there is no father. Just her.