Mother of 6 has 8 MORE kids with fertility treatments

[Mayabird]

I remember reading about women going to Mexico for cheaper fertility treatments. I wonder if she went there. That could explain why we don't know who did the implantations and why they broke so many ethical guidelines; it's a bargain place across the border that'll do anything if someone pays for it.

[Isolder74]

Update!

Octuplets' Mom Says She Was LonelyBy JOHN ROGERS, AP
posted: 4 HOURS 12 MINUTES AGOcomments: 3235filed under: Health News, Births, National NewsPrintShareText SizeAAAWHITTIER, Calif. (AP) — The veil of secrecy octuplets' mother Nadya Suleman shrouded herself in for more than a week was lifted Thursday with the release of public documents showing that the 33-year-old woman struggled with depression for years until she finally began to realize her childhood dream of having a huge family.
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A Stunning Birth Paul Drinkwater, NBC / AP8 photos The woman who gave birth to octuplets Jan. 26 said Thursday she always wanted lots of kids. "That was always a dream of mine, to have a large family, a huge family, and I just longed for certain connections and attachments with another person that I really lacked, I believe, growing up," Nadya Suleman, left, told NBC's Ann Curry in an interview for 'Today.'(Note: Please disable your pop-up blocker)

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Suleman, who now has 14 children, told doctors she battled with depression for years after she was injured in a riot in 1999 at the state mental hospital where she worked.
The doctors' reports were included in more than 300 pages of documents released to The Associated Press by the state Department of Mental Health on the same day NBC released excerpts of Suleman's first interview since giving birth last month.
Among other things, the documents reveal that Suleman collected more than $165,000 in disability payments between 2002 and 2008 for an injury she said left her in near-constant pain and helped end her marriage.
Meanwhile, Suleman told NBC what her mother and others have said since the octuplets were born: that she always wanted a huge family to make up for the isolation she felt as an only child.
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"That was always a dream of mine, to have a large family, a huge family," she said. "I just longed for certain connections and attachments with another person that ... I really lacked, I believe, growing up."
Suleman says she had six embryos implanted in her fertility procedure — far more than industry guidelines recommend under ordinary circumstances — and was well aware that multiple births could result.
"I wanted them all transferred," she told the network. "Those are my children, and that's what was available and I used them. So, I took a risk. It's a gamble. It always is."
"It turned out perfectly," Suleman added in a portion of the interview broadcast Friday.
In the interview — scheduled to air on the "Today" show Monday and again Tuesday on "Dateline" — Suleman calls her childhood "pretty dysfunctional."
In the state report, however, doctors indicate she had a happy childhood. She told them she was an above-average high school student, enjoyed being a cheerleader, had many friends and stayed out of trouble. She said her parents were loving and supportive.
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Notable Multiple BirthsBebeto Matthews, AP6 photos Octuplets: Nkem Chukwu, right rear, and Iyke Louis Udobi, center, are the parents of the first U.S. octuplets to survive birth. They were born in 1998; one died a week later. Here, the couple pose Jan. 28 with Chukwu's mother and the seven surviving octuplets, plus a later addition -- a daughter, third from right, who was born in 2002. Click through for more multiple births.(Note: Please disable your pop-up blocker)

As an adult, however, she said she often battled depression as she struggled to get pregnant and particularly after her injury.
The report says she had three miscarriages and two ectopic pregnancies, a dangerous condition in which a fertilized egg implants somewhere other than the uterus. She told NBC she struggled for seven years before finally giving birth to her first child in 2001 through in vitro fertilization.
She told a doctor who conducted a psychological evaluation for a workers' compensation claim that the first birth was "the most wonderful, best thing that's ever happened in my life."
Suleman said all her children have been born through in-vitro fertilization, with sperm donated from a friend. The first six range in age from 2 to 7. The octuplets are doing fine, said officials at Kaiser Permanente's Bellflower Medical Center, where they were born Jan. 26.
According to the state documents, which were released to the AP following a public records request, Suleman was injured Sept. 18, 1999, when a riot involving nearly two dozen patients broke out in the women's ward of the Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk, where she worked.
As she was helping other staff members restrain a patient, a desk thrown at her by another patient hit her in the back. It caused damage to her spine and left her complaining of headaches and intense pain throughout her lower body for years.
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She attributed it in part to the breakup of her marriage to Marcos Gutierrez, whom she had wed in 1996. She told a psychiatrist the bouts of depression she was suffering as a result of her injury were unfair to her husband.
"I don't want to keep bringing him down. I want him to move on with his life," she told a psychiatrist.
The couple split in 2000 and divorced last year. Gutierrez has not returned calls to phone numbers listed for him, and his divorce lawyer, Roberto Gil, declined comment.
Suleman has come under criticism from TV and radio commentators, bloggers and others who accused her of irresponsibly having more children than she appears prepared to care for. Some say she had the octuplets to cash in with a TV or book deal.
Although the two publicists she hired last week acknowledge she is reviewing such offers, one of her friends said Suleman simply loves children and didn't get pregnant for profit.
"She's not even interested in that right now," said Jessica Zepeda, who lives down the street. "It's funny and sad in a way, there's a lot of people saying really negative things and they don't know her."
Suleman's mother said she expects people's opinions to change now that her daughter is going public.
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"She's a very likable person," Angela Suleman said Wednesday. "She's basically normal except for this obsession she's always had with children."
She's also a good mother, Angela Suleman said.
Her daughter, who was born in Fullerton, studied to be a psychiatric technician after graduating from a high school in La Puente in 1993.
She received a bachelor's degree in child and adolescent development from California State University, Fullerton, in 2006 and was studying there for a master's degree in counseling when she became pregnant with the octuplets.
"She may not be able to finish her master's degree now and she was so close to wrapping it up," her mother said.
Publicist Mike Furtney said Nadya Suleman has told him it's her dream to eventually earn a Ph.D. in some field involving counseling.
Public records show Suleman was listed on the Metropolitan State Hospital payroll from 1997 until last year, although it appears she did little work after September 1999 because of her injury.
Furtney said Thursday that Suleman was "feeling great" and looking forward to being reunited with her octuplets, who are expected to remain in the hospital for several more weeks.
"She's happy to be out of the hospital, although she misses her children," he said. "She can't wait until they join her."
The octuplets were born nine weeks prematurely and will be released from the hospital individually as they hit a near-normal newborn weight.
"At this point in their development, they are not mature enough to coordinate the suckling and swallowing at the same time to be bottle-fed," said Dr. Mandhir Gupta, the hospital's neonatologist.
Associated Press writers Shaya Tayefe Mohajer, Raquel Maria Dillon and Thomas Watkins contributed to this report.
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To Quote Will Smith....Oh, Hell no!

I'm not sure what i can say about this. She had fertility treatments only bec ause she was depressed and felr lonely.....weren't the first 6 enough!???

[Aaron]

Jebus, if your that lonely get a damn dog. Not only are they cheaper than kids but they will love you no matter what, these kids might just grow up thinking mommy is a dumbass when their having ketchup sandwhichs four times a week for supper.

[TithonusSyndrome]

I was listening to NPR last night and they were talking about her and her past... Apparently she started doing ths Specifically to become "Famous" Apparently she has already hired a publisist and has tried booking her appearance on shows for money.
No links just what I heared from NPR. Of course if this is true its adds a whole new sickening layer to things

Is that even legal? This, as stated, has to fall under child abuse of some variety.

Child abuse meets Son of Sam laws - in a just, ideal world, of course. I don't know the specific language of most SoS legislation, but I guarantee there'd be an uproar if anyone managed to successfully bring them to bear against this woman of the "RAWR EUGENICS" variety.