Daily Archives: February 8, 2009

So, I know this is sooooo last week’s news, but I am just now getting around to posting about it.
I’m sure you all have heard of Nadya Suleman or at least her great feat of delivering eight babies on the same day. That’s is without doubt newsworthy, but perhaps the most newsworthy thing of all is that this woman is single and already had six other children at home.
*Insert all your four-letter expletives and grunts here*
Did I mention that she’s unemployed and all the kids are younger than eight? I’ll say it for you, “Double Damn!”
OK, so, I was trying to get myself together on this one before I gave my opinion. Part of me says, she’s a grown woman and she can do what she wants. Another part of me says, how is she going to take care of all those kids by herself. And yet another part of me is concerned about her mental and emotional well-being.
Let’s do the math of how she got all these kids in the first place. First off, according to the Jones Institute for Reproductive medicine, I swear it’s not me, the In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) success rate varies based on age and the health of both the male and female donors. I won’t bog you down with numbers, but based on my research, for each of the six embryos implanted into Suleman had about a 48 percent chance of survival.
So you see, the fact that all six embryos survived, and two split to form two sets of identical twins, it is no doubt a miracle that this woman was able to carry these babies for as long as she did and that they all survived.
Given that, I say we all praise the Lord and pray for her and her family in the same breath. As a Christian, I know God doesn’t make any mistakes, but giving this woman 14 children at the age of 33 leads me to believe that He blinked or sneezed or something.
That woman might as well shave her head and admit herself to a psych ward now. After this, I hope she’s had her tubes tied, cut, clipped and burned so that this does not happen again and whatever “friend” she’s been getting sperm from needs to stop giving it to her.
Now, the state of California is “probing” into why she was allowed to have more than four embryos implanted at once and they are investigating her doctor. Quite frankly, I think these people need to get out of this woman’s uterus and work on something that matters like the damn economy!
The only reason this is even an issue is because this woman is single and because she is unemployed. My question is, who the freak isn’t unemployed or in danger of being unemployed? The bottom line is she was impregnated seven months ago, where were all these people then?
They didn’t have any reason to step in then and they don’t have any reason to step in now. Leave that woman and her uterus alone and let her hit Oprah and Ellen to get some free diapers and clothes and stuff for those kids. She’s gonna need it.
In a few interviews last week, Suleman told reporters that she’s always wanted a big family to make up for the fact that she was an only child. And she also had three miscarriages over a seven-year period.
This is why I am concerned about her emotional state because from what I understand, once you’ve lost a baby, you never really recover. Plus, I watch “Jon and Kate Plus Eight” and “Then Came Six” and I see what those families go through with two parents in the house, God only knows what she will go through by herself. My heart goes out to her, it really does.
*SMH*
On a side note, she said she plans to breast feed them all, is it just me or do you think her nipples are going to fall off?