Octuplets Mom Has 6 Other Kids
Doctors say the octuplets born Monday outside Los Angeles are doing well.
But when they go home, it will be to a truly full house.
CBS News has learned the mother who gave birth to the octuplets has six other children.
An acquaintance who didn't want to be identified told Early Show national correspondent Hattie Kauffman the mom has four older boys and two girls.
"She is young," the acquaintance says, "fairly young. She has six children already. And in those six children, she has a set of twins."
While the hospital where the octuplets were born, Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center in Bellflower, Calif., some 17 miles southeast of L.A., hasn't confirmed that the mom used fertility drugs, there are no documented cases of naturally conceived octuplets, Kauffman points out.
Doctors say the babies are all breathing on their own. But all weigh less than four pounds and are expected to remain in the hospital for weeks.
The woman and her children live on a cul-de-sac with her parents.
A man who came to the door of the family home confirmed to Kauffman that he's the grandfather of the octuplets, but refused to speak to her.
"From what you know about this family, and this household, do you think they'll be able to support 14 kids?" Kauffman asked the acquaintance.
"Well," she responded, "so far, they've been fine with the six they have. Fourteen I don't know."
Kauffman says the neighborhood has homes with just two or three bedrooms.
It will, Kauffman concluded, "be tight!"
Copyright 2009 CBS. All rights reserved. But when they go home, it will be to a truly full house.
CBS News has learned the mother who gave birth to the octuplets has six other children.
An acquaintance who didn't want to be identified told Early Show national correspondent Hattie Kauffman the mom has four older boys and two girls.
"She is young," the acquaintance says, "fairly young. She has six children already. And in those six children, she has a set of twins."
While the hospital where the octuplets were born, Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center in Bellflower, Calif., some 17 miles southeast of L.A., hasn't confirmed that the mom used fertility drugs, there are no documented cases of naturally conceived octuplets, Kauffman points out.
Doctors say the babies are all breathing on their own. But all weigh less than four pounds and are expected to remain in the hospital for weeks.
The woman and her children live on a cul-de-sac with her parents.
A man who came to the door of the family home confirmed to Kauffman that he's the grandfather of the octuplets, but refused to speak to her.
"From what you know about this family, and this household, do you think they'll be able to support 14 kids?" Kauffman asked the acquaintance.
"Well," she responded, "so far, they've been fine with the six they have. Fourteen I don't know."
Kauffman says the neighborhood has homes with just two or three bedrooms.
It will, Kauffman concluded, "be tight!"
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Kids are the responsibility of parents. Don't make a tool to gain fame.
The woman''s father is an Iraqi, not a U.S. citizen. So what DOES that make her??
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She is NOT Iraqi. Get an education and stop spewing lies
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Posted by NEngland123 at 11:35 AM : Feb 01, 2009
Housing - (only a slight bit smaller than Bill Gates%u2019pad)
Heat, food, lights & transportation (in consumption numbers sure to make Al Gore soil himself).
Child Care (it literally WILL take a village to raise this clan)
Health Care (that just got rubber stamped the other day)
And (the icing on the proverbial cake) now she%u2019s gearing up for a visit to the local head-shrinker because she has got and %u201Cobsession%u201D with procreation. Translation: %u201Ctoo crazy to work when these kids finally leave the nest%u201D.
She%u2019s a self-described %u201Cprofessional student%u201D %u2013 so anyone out their who wants to tell me she is paying out of pocket for her tuition AND this fertility treatment%u2026 please contact me about a bridge in Brooklyn I need to sell cheap!
I really don''''t want to see her rewarded for her stupidity, but maybe if Oprah or someone DID give her 2 mill it''''d spare us workin'''' folks... aw who am I kidding? We''''re on the hook!
I also love that now the spin is "she needs to talk to a shrink" because "she''''s obsessed with children". So, if stupidity is now officially a disability - I guess the final piece of the puzzle just fell into place... "S.S.I." Game. Set. Match.
Posted by Daddy_Chow at 07:56 PM : Jan 31, 2009
Don''t even THINK it!!! If anyone gives this woman a lot of stuff--you give the green light for every Fertile Myrtle under the sun to start spitting out babies as fast as their flailing uteruses can get them out. WAnt a true nightmare? Then give incentives for doing dumb things. See how well amnesty worked for illegals? It would be giving a green light to turning women into breeding machines for profit!!
I really don''t want to see her rewarded for her stupidity, but maybe if Oprah or someone DID give her 2 mill it''d spare us workin'' folks... aw who am I kidding? We''re on the hook!
I also love that now the spin is "she needs to talk to a shrink" because "she''s obsessed with children". So, if stupidity is now officially a disability - I guess the final piece of the puzzle just fell into place... "S.S.I." Game. Set. Match.