And Now: A Woman Pregnant With Twelve Babies

[Lounge Daddy]

One of the early lines in the article reads: "He said his wife was determined to have a natural birth." But the whole thing would seem entirely unnatural.

[url="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2592012/Woman-due-to-have-12-babies.html"]The entire article is at The UK Sun[/url]:

[quote]British fertility experts warned the pregnancy in the Tunisian oasis town of Gafsa carried "colossal" risks. All nine babies born to the current record-holder - an Australian mum in 1971 - died in Sydney.

Shocked Dr Mark Hamilton, of the British Fertility Society, said: "Twelve babies seems extraordinary." The mum-to-be, who is being constantly monitored by experts in her home country, is said to have insisted she is "feeling fine".

She was also "looking forward to hugging her six boys and six girls". The wife had sought help after previously suffering the anguish of several miscarriages.

It was not clear if she had IVF treatment or an alternative procedure called ovulation induction treatment.

IVF would have meant several eggs being fertilised outside the womb then implanted. OIT uses hormones to stimulate the ovaries so they produce eggs that can be fertilised the natural way.

When multiple eggs are involved, UK women opting for either procedure are offered the option of "selective reduction".

Some of the foetuses are aborted, so those left have a better chance of survival. This also reduces the risk to the mother.

The Tunisian government is said to have pledged to do all it can to care for the mother and her babies.

Her pregnancy comes seven months after Californian mum Nadya Suleman stunned the world by delivering eight healthy tots. [/quote]

[Archaeology cat]

[Archaeology cat]

I am glad she is not aborting any of them, though.

[VeniteAdoremus]

Fertility treatment is a CURSE.

[rachael]

my uterus.

[homeschoolmom]

This is so wrong. Children are not things to be aquired....

[CatherineM]

Even dogs have trouble having that many babies.

[The Bus Station]

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[Jesus_lol]

[quote name='Archaeology cat' date='18 August 2009 - 08:11 AM' timestamp='1250604671' post='1951834']
I am glad she is not aborting any of them, though.
[/quote]



cause at least when they all die on their own, its the natural way.

Edited August 18, 2009 by Jesus_lol

[Didacus]

That's almost a hockey team in one delivery!

[jeffpugh]

[quote name='Didacus' date='18 August 2009 - 03:08 PM' timestamp='1250622535' post='1951991']
That's almost a hockey team in one delivery!
[/quote]
You know, that's true!!

[jeffpugh]

[quote name='Jesus_lol' date='18 August 2009 - 03:01 PM' timestamp='1250622108' post='1951984']
cause at least when they all die on their own, its the natural way.
[/quote]
True. God's will be done. On another note, I've heard that the other children in the womb are actually effected by one of their siblings being aborted. They actually get scarred from it. It's not a thing to take lightly.

[eagle_eye222001]

I don't see any good coming out of this.

[MissyP89]

This should be good. Something always seems to go wrong when you try to play God...

[Jesus_lol]

[quote name='Sacred Music Man' date='18 August 2009 - 02:12 PM' timestamp='1250626355' post='1952027']
True. God's will be done. On another note, I've heard that the other children in the womb are actually effected by one of their siblings being aborted. They actually get scarred from it. It's not a thing to take lightly.
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i was actually being a little sarcastic. and i would much rather be scarred than dead. having 12 children die including their mother is hardly a light thing either.