Octuplets’ Mom Obsessed with Having Babies

By Alex in Baby & Kids, Health on Feb 1, 2009 at 2:08 am

We posted about the surprising news that the octuplets’ mother already having 6 children. Today, more disturbing details are emerging about the woman:

The woman who gave birth to octuplets this week conceived all 14 of her children through in vitro fertilization, is not married and has been obsessed with having children since she was a teenager, her mother said. [...]

Little psychological research has been conducted on the reasons some mothers seem hooked on repeated pregnancies. David Diamond, a co-director for the Center for Reproductive Psychology in San Diego, said mothers can be drawn to repeat pregnancies for a number of reasons, with some finding the experience so satisfying they choose to become surrogates.

Diane G. Sanford, a psychologist and author specializing in women’s reproductive mental health, said while she doesn’t know much about Nadya Suleman’s background, women that have obsessive-compulsive disorder can become fixated on different obsessions.

"Her obsession centers around children, having children and being a mother," she said. "To what degree are her esteem and identity based on being a mom and why has this from a young age been such a preoccupation of hers?"

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  1. atanguay
    Feb 1st, 2009 at 2:37 am

    Wow, it just got even creepier!

    touche’

  2. The El Bee En
    Feb 1st, 2009 at 3:29 am

    Yet another reason during open enrollment (if you still have a job that offers health insurance) NOT to pick Kaiser Permenante!

  3. violet
    Feb 1st, 2009 at 4:18 am

    File under the “no duh” heading.

  4. lameramera
    Feb 1st, 2009 at 5:32 am

    i blame john and kate plus ate, dirty bastards

  5. Anon
    Feb 1st, 2009 at 6:13 am

    This woman is sick. I feel sorry for her husband.

    I would blow my brains out.

  6. George
    Feb 1st, 2009 at 7:34 am

    Somebody needs to bitch-slap the crap out of this womans mother for knowing about her obsession and letting this outrage continue. Forrest said “stupid is as stupid does”.

  7. jim
    Feb 1st, 2009 at 7:56 am

    What husband? She isn’t married,just likes to have babies. Plus she is unemployed, a student supposedly.

    Who gets to pay for these 14 kids? You and me,that’s who.

    They should sterilize her before she has more.

  8. hooptycritter
    Feb 1st, 2009 at 9:06 am

    I really hope that no businesses give goods to this awful science experiment and she and her family take responsibility for her actions – meaning pay their own way.
    I am so tired of hearing how these chemistry experiments are “miracles” – fertility drugs used badly, not god , is the reason more women are giving birth to litters. Again they should not be rewarded for their grossly irresponsible behavior – babies born in litters suffer so many costly health problems that we end up paying for.
    I am for better regulation and oversight of fertility treatments. This is getting out of control.
    see this

  9. IronCrow
    Feb 1st, 2009 at 9:08 am

    The obsession with having them is better than a few years ago when the obsession seemed to be moms killing and/or dismembering their children. I would much prefer 8 live children in the public eye than one dead one.

  10. LisaL
    Feb 1st, 2009 at 10:29 am

    They need to investigate the idiot doctor who gave her fertility treatments. How she even paid for those is what I’m wondering b/c they’re not cheap.

  11. jp
    Feb 1st, 2009 at 11:21 am

    As a friend said: A vagina is not a clown car.

  12. D Bozko
    Feb 1st, 2009 at 11:30 am

    She lives with her parents in a three bedroom two bath house. I don’t care how many kids anyone has as long as they can support them but this is just wrong. She’s wrong, her parents are wrong and the doctor who implanted her is wrong. I don’t see any way that she’s not going to end up on public assistance. How can a single mom care adequately care for 14 kids without the money for major help?

  13. GailW
    Feb 1st, 2009 at 11:43 am

    She needs psychiatric help, and to be kept from having further children if that is even possible.

  14. biltmore
    Feb 1st, 2009 at 12:13 pm

    Someone tie this ladies tubes up, right now.

  15. A Noun
    Feb 1st, 2009 at 12:32 pm

    This had better not be the next TLC reality show. The backlash from this would kill all the others…wait. Maybe that’s not so bad.

    Or maybe…maybe a blended reality show. Let’s get this woman and all her kids adopted by those awful Duggars!

    Course they might not do it, as her Dad seems to be Iraqi.

  16. sw
    Feb 1st, 2009 at 1:44 pm

    Where to start?

    Her parents must be equally cracked, since she lives at home with them AND CONTINUES TOO GET FERTILITY TREATMENTS.

    Living in a 3 bedroom house with 3 adults, where the hell did she keep the original 6 kids? Was she hoping to get a free house with the new 8?

    TLC showcases appx. 5 ‘super’ families with happy, healthy children. They might be all of them. Realistically, you’re going to have to deal with a lot of disabilities and delays with a litter.

  17. Allison
    Feb 1st, 2009 at 2:52 pm

    She wants Oprah and Diane Sawyer to pay for them.

    And she plans to have a career as a television child care expert.

  18. darlzwik
    Feb 1st, 2009 at 3:13 pm

    Well Lisal, maybe she needs to get “fixed” before she has another litter.

    Some say we have become a society where some work for a living, and some vote for a living. How much is she going to get paid by the state for all this whelping.

  19. Lola
    Feb 1st, 2009 at 4:01 pm

    Just to address a couple of points here: The 8 were frozen embryos from a previous in vitro fertilization. Apparently #1) she didn’t want to waste them and #2) she wanted another girl. So she didn’t have to pay for the full procedure, fertility drugs, egg retrieval, etc.

    Also, apparently her mother told her she’s not going to be there when she comes home with the octuplets, she’s had enough. This woman is in some serious need of psychological help. I hope the doctor who implanted her is brought up on some kind of charges although there’s probably nothing that s/he has done that’s illegal. However, it is unethical and at the very least s/he should have their license to practice medicine revoked permanently.

    BTW, the word “octuplet” isn’t even in my spellcheck dictionary. What does that tell you?

  20. Evilbeagle
    Feb 1st, 2009 at 4:18 pm

    Wow. OK, if she were on her own raising the kids without government help, I would be happy to tell her to have 2 or 20 because it would then make no difference to me.

    However, the idea of doing something like this while living with my mother strikes me as selfish, more than a little sick in the head, and basically asking for trouble in the long run. I can’t even imagine living with my mom and asking her if I can have a puppy, much less children.

    IronCrow makes a good point, nevertheless. Better eight live ones than one dead one because Mommy couldn’t handle the crying.

  21. DOJ
    Feb 1st, 2009 at 5:28 pm

    Nobody loves me
    but if I have a baby
    it has to love me!

    weird, that’s an unintentional haiku

  22. sw
    Feb 1st, 2009 at 8:02 pm

    that is a whole lot of kids who are going to hit the foster care system at the same time.

  23. mepoindexter
    Feb 1st, 2009 at 8:47 pm

    And then people wonder why the Catholics are so against in-vitro

  24. Snappy
    Feb 1st, 2009 at 9:43 pm

    Why didn’t she speak to Dick Van Patten first?

  25. Christophe
    Feb 1st, 2009 at 10:21 pm

    As long as she has the $ to raise them… But with or without help this is going to be hell.

  26. The Slapster
    Feb 1st, 2009 at 11:53 pm

    She DOESN’T have the money, have you read anything about this train-wreck of a psycho?? I’d pay $1 if they would televise her reaction when Oprah denies her insane request for $2 mil though.

  27. Anon
    Feb 2nd, 2009 at 3:50 am

    Clearly, science is Evil and the doctor that put these eight babies into the woman is a mad scientist.

    Get real. The woman deviated from standard procedure by not letting the doctor remove the excess eggs that implanted.

  28. Gauldar
    Feb 2nd, 2009 at 1:07 pm

    A doctor’s mistake is an idiot’s gain?

  29. rtc80
    Feb 2nd, 2009 at 2:10 pm

    Is there no compassion for the babies and all those little children??? All the hatred, anger, finger-pointing, name-calling in these comments, yet no love and compassion for the innocent newborns nor their siblings???? My heart aches and I want to cry when I think of what may be in their futures. I could be wrong about what kind of childhood they have in store, and I sincerely hope I’m wrong, but have a terrible feeling it’s not going to be good…

  30. Gauldar
    Feb 2nd, 2009 at 2:48 pm

    rtc80,

    Humanity is born in poverty and squalor throughout the whole world, why just feel sorry for these 8 “snow flake” babies. They say destroying these embryos is murder, but apparently it’s g-d’s will to stem life out of mystery. Don’t worry yourself, they are a world issue right now so Brangelina will scoop them up if things go south for them.

  31. Juliana
    Feb 2nd, 2009 at 3:14 pm

    I do have compassion for those poor children, but this chick needs to get locked up and sterilized before she can have any more kids. She can’t afford them, and wants $2million for an interview. Kiss my grits lady.

    I’m one half of a childless couple, and it breaks my heart that she’s abusing those children because she has to satisfy some sick endless need for more children. There’s no way those kids are going to get the love and attention they need and deserve. There needs to be better regulations set in order for women to get fertility treatments. I have seen too many women abuse these privileges for their own selfish reasons. Why wasn’t 6 children enough? Take care of the ones you have. She probably sees children like puppies – cute at first, but then they grow up.

    I hope nobody gives into her demands. Whomever gives her the $2mil are in for a big sh-tstorm from the public. Nobody should be rewarded for being irresponsible, especially when children are involved.

  32. lunita
    Feb 3rd, 2009 at 2:40 pm

    wow! something is wrong with this picture…Her own mother says she has mental health issues, no job…the doctors who did this should be accountable, 14 children under 7? single parent? These kids may be doing well & I wish nothing but good health for them but reality is many years & many medical bills are to come..she should be stopped…come on..who in their right mind would do this? 14 children with fertility treatments?????? Like the Dr in Europe said..Americans are very irresponsible with this kind of technology. I feel sorry for all thse kids,,, mom’s a nut job

  33. Kathleen
    Feb 4th, 2009 at 1:42 am

    I have an IVF baby…a wonderful baby girl. I have done lots of research on this topic. The majority of IVF clinics will not go past the recommended guidelines. IVF is a controlled procedure. The doctor puts in 1 or 2 embryos for women under 35, and women over 35 the doctor puts in 2 or 3.

    This octuplet mom gives the insurance companies fighting ammo. The insurance companies say if they were to pay for this procedure every woman would be having 6 or more babies. This is why the insurance companies pay nothing for the procedure. Those people that want to have a baby…have to refinance their homes-to get the $15000 + $5000 for the fertility drugs.

    I think the octuplet mom got her money by donating eggs. I have a guess on who the doctor was…maybe a doctor at the fertility clinic she worked at…since she got the sperm from someone she worked with at the clinic. Why not the doctor?

    I just hope the media…thinks about what they are doing, before they start paying out millions for her story. I hope she can give these babies all the love they need and still provide enough love for the other six. How does someone with a degree in child development intentionally give a child no father to love them?

  34. jeannie
    Feb 7th, 2009 at 2:38 am

    This woman sounds like a professional scam artist. She’s popping out 14 children and doing IVF cycles during the ten years that she says that she’s completely disabled and can’t work.

    It’s people like this who mess up the system so that the truly disabled have a hard time getting benefits when they really need it.

  35. Elizabeth
    Feb 27th, 2009 at 8:14 am

    It seems people are willing to watch (and pay for) such lousy “entertainment” yet many people despise this woman because she wants to get paid well for her story so that she can properly take care of these kids. Why isn’t anyone challenging the medical community and forcing more stringent checklists for those people who would do the same as she has done?
    Pay the woman for her story already!
    Let’s get to the nitty gritty.


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