Comments on: 14 Notable Multiple Births (for a total of 69 babies)

By: Kellee

Kellee — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:19:01 +0000

The Coble’s are my neighbors they are incredibly sweet.

By: Twilly

Twilly — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:12:00 +0000

Babies created in a lab are science projects. There’s nothing natural about it!!

By: Bumerry

Bumerry — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:35:00 +0000

I have spontaneous twins, but I thank God for my beautiful neice Molly, who was conceived with fertility treatment. My brother and sister in law would not have been able to have any children without the treatment, and I think TWINSOFMYOWN and SA are horrible people for condemning it. My SIL is an adoption worker at the only agency in their area and is not allowed to adopt in their state, even if she quits her job first.

Ira, adoption is wonderful, and I wish more people would adopt older children and sibling groups.

However, I think few people understand what happens to kids ripped away from their entire families. Can you say “attachment reactive disorder”? I kenw you could! Read up on it dude.

Often this happens for no better reason than poverty being labelled neglect, when just giving the mom – or rarely, dad- the money given to foster parents would solve the problems immediatly. This happens ALL THE TIME to African American families.

AA folks make up around 10% of the general population in my state, but more than 60% of foster children are AA.

There is no way that this is always justified and racism is uninvolved. Studies have recently been done providing that AA parents are routinely viewed more harshly than white parents, especially in neglect cases. White mom who says she doesn’t use drugs “doesn’t use drugs” but black mom “denies substance abuse.”

The whole state system of foster care is being overhauled because of the shocking results of this study and an equally shocking wrongful death suit. Case loads were suppossed to be in the 20’s, but were actually many times that number, especially in large cities. The best child welfare worker on earth can’t keep track of 100 children at once and provide adequate and unbiased services. So it’s been cut to barely double digits per worker, and hundreds of new jobs have resulted. The kids win, the families win and the economy wins.

By: Cassiy

Cassiy — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:14:00 +0000

First of all I want to say that it is very easy for people to say that it is Gods will for people to not have children if they cannot naturally. Well I am willing to bet that most of the people that say this are people that can easily have children. There would not be fertility clinics and things at our disposal if it was not Gods will. Yes some people are not careful enough like the woman that recently had octuplets, but to judge the people out their that this is their only choice is just wrong. I was able to concieve my first child naturally but due to complications of the labor am unable to concieve again naturally. Therefore I will be doing Invitro. I am doing this at a highly acredited clinic that is very careful where the risk of multiples is very low. Oh and so if I have two embryos put back and have a high chance of twins (which is not bad at all) but one or two splits to turn it into triplets or quads is that not what God intented. It is one thing for people to go in and be irresponsible and go to bad clinics where they are not closely monitered or they put back tons of embyros just to get a postive pregnancy, but to flat out say that about everyone is very insensitive. So to TWINSOFMYOWN and SA. Just be thankful that yall were so very blessed and could easily have children. I would rather end up with twins than with no more children at all and am willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars to do so. I am not saying the way that everyone has done it is right, like I said some people go about it the wrong way and are not carefully monitered and that is wrong, but when done right it can be very safe and resulting in singleton or twin births with a very low chance of anything past that. Like I said if they split thats they way God wanted it. It is so easy to judge when you are on the outside looking in and have never had to experience something. I agree with ya’ll in some areas, but to classify everyone that does fertility treatment that way is is just completely wrong.

By: SA

SA — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:23:00 +0000

I totally agree with Ira. So many ready-made families looking for the parent part and instead people are basically giving those kids the finger by having a litter of hormonally induced babies. I’m amused at the religious attitude that “it’s god’s will” or whatever that prevents culling the herd. Actually, it appears to have been God’s will for those people to have no children at all.

By: TwinsOfMyOwn

TwinsOfMyOwn — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:57:00 +0000

Couple of thing that bother me when it comes to higher multiplies.

1)For ALL the cases that involve fertility drugs…..These people decide to turn to fertility drugs (if they don’t realize that there is a chance to have more than one they are ignorant) and have 6 babies at once and then they have their hand out for tons of freebies and help.

2)I do NOT understand why the show “Kate plus 8″ is on TV? There are families out there that have had more children at one time. To be honest I am tired of seeing a family that used fertility drugs running around the country getting everything PAID because they chose to take fertility drugs. AGAIN…YOU HAVE A CHOICE TO TAKE FERTILITY DRUGS…YOU ARE HAVING A CHILD/REN IN A UN-NATURAL WAY….SO YOU CAN CHOSE REALLY HOW MANY YOU WANT!

3) If the press / news would stop making such a big deal over multiplies people would stop taking fertility drugs in hopes of having their name in the record books. When the news gets involved that is when people start saying….”oh we were only supposed to have 4 babies and now we have 5…I need a crib, diapers…blah blah blah…” Give me a break……People need to take responsibility for the decisions they make.

When it comes to NATURAL MULTIPLIES. Let me clarify myself….Multiplies that came from NEVER taking fertility drugs….I am happy for the parents. I personally have natural set of twins who were born at 29 weeks. They had a very rare disease. Talk about a scary
road.

By: Aliyah-Kay

Aliyah-Kay — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:09:00 +0000

Love the Gosselins..I watch their show almost everyday on either tv or the web.♥

By: Bria-Kate

Bria-Kate — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:28:00 +0000

thats so cool i want sixtuplets and twins!

By: baby names

baby names — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:56:22 +0000

wow thats amazing. however i feel sorry for the kids in a way, as they dont get the same love and undivided attention they would if they were born alone!

By: Karin

Karin — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:24:48 +0000

Raychel, there are quintuplets that have been born without fertility drugs: the Dionne quintuplets of Canada. They were born in May of 1934.