Calif. Octuplets' Mom's Veil of Secrecy Vanishes

This is a sad state of affairs. My biggest question is where did the money come from to pay for the IVF treatment??? If she was receiving welfare dollars which I know is not much where or where did the money come from??? Is the doctor getting something out of this? Or did the doctor do this as a research experiment? Some scientist are crazy and will attempt such studies to determine if such an experiment will work. I wonder if the patient paid nothing. A pharmaceutical company donated the medication. Kaiser takes medi-cal so the cost of births are paid and care are covered financially. From a scientific point of view the doctor would cover his basis. Kaiser gets involved knows if they are able to deliver 8 healthy premies they will demonstrate their superior care to the public. The mother has demonstrated her ability to deliver 6 children, so her uterus is capable of holding more than one baby. Also, the mother is not functioning on all 6 cylinders. So, if the doctor is able to pull off implanting all of the eggs, great. If the mother loses the pregnancy then the doctors experiment demonstrates it is not possible. But!!! If all babies survive great! Kaiser keeps the babies healthy! Great! Then what about the Mother of all of those children...Doctor is not stupid...All survive. In comes Extreme Home Makeover, book deals, movies, interviews on Oprah, Dr. Phil, 20/20 voila....It is a win win! Science proves the almost impossible, Entertainment gets a story, The world gets a freak show. A mother gets her delusion of grandeur.... a large family. But, the sadest part about the whole story is what about the children!!! What will truly happen with these children?

If you're suffering from depression through a crisis that caused the acute illness, you go get help. You don't get your uterus implanted with eight fertilized eggs while you're scraping by on SSI and food stamps to support the other six children that you already have! This woman has no foundation for how to make a well-rounded judgement. She brings fourteen children down with her. Not only is she going to feed her unresolved depressive issues to her children, but she will cause them to suffer economically as all fourteen children will require 4.2 million to raise them to age 18. There are definitely those who really need to have their tubes tied!

First, The MD should be Reprimanded and suspended. Evidently, as she was already receiving state funding (food stamps and SSI for one child, ADC for the other 5), the subsequent implantations were paid for by the state (probably the first 6 also). Seems that needs to be looked into for fraud and other charges on both her and the MD. Second, It should have been REALLY obvious, she has issues. Personally, someone should really get into her to find out which personality was dominant at the times of implantation, etc. She sould have been on meds and checked to see if she was taking them before the first set. I even read where her mother said when she and her children get released, she and her father are leaving. It should be obvious this female is looking for handouts for life. She expecting someone to provide a bigger place (2 bedrooms for 15 people? PLEASE), baby clothes and food and whatever special needs these children will need that the state won't provide. The biggest mistake was NOT givinh her a tubal ligation or hys after this group. There is always the possibility that in 12 to 28 months, she will try again. Please excuse the typos.

I am married, my husband and I both work full time, and we have four kids. We struggle to pay our bills, feed the family, and have enough extra money to go and have fun as a family..because nothing is cheap anymore. I think this woman is going to have a hard time..and she thinks she was depressed before? I too always wanted kids, but there's a big difference between wanting..and being able to afford. It's now fair to expect everyone else to help her, like the taxpayers and all the book and tv deals, and even her family. But I hope she does get a lot of help, not just financially but emotionally too, because being a mom is a very hard job and she will need support. I'm not sure if I'm convinced that she knows what she's getting into!

I cant understand how this woman that is single and without a job or a stable home environment to have 14 children. And many woman out there who would love to have 1 to adopt and the process you have to go through and many time after going through that tedious process one is not gurantee that you will get a child.I want to know if it is really easier or this is what God want for human to have 8 chidren or that was only for certain animal? What we dont have a mind to think . Or what we think with our fingers and aferward we try to act. What is she looking for fame or she cannot satisfied? Look at the state of the economy we cant evn feed who we have and having 14 more added, what kind of future are we looking forward to? It alway amazes me that whenever things like these or someone kills onother we play the blame game and find people to cover our dark shaddow ,by saying we have mental issues that is a lie and is fully time we as a people see that those arguement have no worth and dont waste tax payers money on these peple.When are we going to come to our senses when the nation crumble?We all have a story ,just to let us look good for the moment. This woman have her plan to get interviewed and sell her story we all know about her story so she dont need to sell it she too bad.I am so sorry for those children and pray God will protect them and help the mother eyes to be open to the problems ahead. I do hope she will nuture thses children in the right way but how can she do that and shre needs nuturing herself. i really need some answers, i wnt a child too and do you suggest that i do that same process and dont have a job a husband and a home is that fair for an innocent child that did not ask to be here. ponder these things

SIck and sad.

The doctor who implanted a single women with 6 kids already with even 1 let alone 7 embryos should be shot, better yet, I say that idiot doctor should have to support them all, but NO it will be MY tax dollars in CA that will raise those kids, IDIOTS!

i can't believe there was a doctor out there that put all these babies at risk for the sake of his own wallet!! I work in Neonatology and find this disgusting that they would A: give her invitro even after already having 6, and B: wouldn't reduce the pregnancy to make things safer for her and for the babies. Very Angering!!!