Mother loses octuplets

[mercurial]

Just a few days after an unnamed woman in Southern California gave birth to octuplets, Mandy Allwood remembers what it is like to give birth to eight babies.

In fact, Allwood, of Warwick, England, who gave birth to octuplets on Sept. 30, 1996, remembers thinks of her babies every single day.

Within three days, all eight of the octuplets had died, the Daily Mail reported.

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Not sure if this was posted before, but hectic stuff.

 

[Fudzy]

Wow, what a fun way to start a Friday.

 

[Keeper]

very sad....

i heard the news on 94.7 a couple of days ago.... (of her giving birth to the 8, of course..)

 

[chiskop]

Octuplets are happy where they belong anyway: under a rock, in the sea.

 

[medicnick83]

geezuz... sorry for her loss(s)

 

[killadoob]

That is seriously sad, last i heard they they where pulling through, wow all 8 is just crazy.

 

[Waaib]

Am I wrong here? The 8 that passed away was 13 years ago. The 8 born last week are fine.

Apparently the lady who had the 8 last week already has 6 other kids!

 

[Oculate]

Apparently the lady who had the 8 last week already has 6 other kids!

borderline NSFW... not sure where the line is

http://myspace.roflposters.com/images/rofl/myspace/1223362889142.jpg.[roflposters.com].myspace.jpg

 

[blunomore]

Off topic:

For some reason when when women use fertility treatment, they are more likely to get pregnant with multiple babies at a time.

Would like to know the explanation for that.

 

[krycor]

8 kids.. guess they will have to be on the bottle eh can you imagine if not

 

[2CentsWorth]

Off topic:

For some reason when when women use fertility treatment, they are more likely to get pregnant with multiple babies at a time.

Would like to know the explanation for that.

I may be way off the mark here, but I would guess fertility treatment enhances their fertility.

 

[Messugga]

During in vitro, they implant 3 embryos, in order to increase the chances of a successful pregnancy, because the procedure is so expensive. More often than not, most, if not all of these embryos die, but sometimes two or more survive and the result is non-identical twins or triplets. How 8 happens though, I guess is just like how twins normally happen only you have more embryos to start from hence greater odds of having large amounts of children.

Someone should tell that lady that it's a vagina and not a clown car. Sheesh.

 

[2CentsWorth]

Am I wrong here? The 8 that passed away was 13 years ago. The 8 born last week are fine.

Apparently the lady who had the 8 last week already has 6 other kids!

Yare correct. This week's 8 are all fine. http://news.aol.com/health/article/womans-new-octuplets-are-doing-well/318552

 

[Pitbull]

On the same day I was born, a SA woman gave birth to 5 boys.

Let me try and find a link somewhere.

edit:

Correction, they where born eight days after me - Neuhoff vyfling 29/02/1980

 

[blunomore]

I may be way off the mark here, but I would guess fertility treatment enhances their fertility.

I am under the impression that fertility relates to the ability to get pregnant and carry the baby to full term.

Taking into account the world population, there are not so many twins or multiple births out there (else it would not hit the headlines!), so following your analogy, it means the majority of people are 'less fertile'?

 

[2CentsWorth]

I am under the impression that fertility relates to the ability to get pregnant and carry the baby to full term.

Taking into account the world population, there are not so many twins or multiple births out there (else it would not hit the headlines!), so following your analogy, it means the majority of people are 'less fertile'?

I'm sure there are more formal studies on this, so I would be speculating at best in answering your question.

However, in my personal friends circle I do know of 3 separate couples who have been struggling to have kids. One couple in their late twenties and the other 2 in their early thirties. None of these have (as far as I know) trioed fertility medicine. But a friend's boss and his wife also struggled and after she went on fertility treatment the result was a child followed almost immediately by a set of twins.

So, speaking from my own vantage point I do think that in general women (or perhaps men) may be less "fertile" than before. And it kind of makes sense as culture these days kind of dictates 1 or maybe 2 kids.

But, as I said, this is from my own point of view.

 

[Vinia]

lol @this thread's title. OP, you should write for a weekly magazine. You know how to make a headline that pulls em in with high expectations (punny, I know).

Why not "Mother lost octuplets 13 years ago" ?