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There are parts of the country where giving birth to your own triplet granddaughters is par for the course.

Huh.

I didn't know there was a hospital in Mayfield. I thought it was just 261 and a sh*tload of stripmalls.

Color me surprised.

approve

gross. if you can't conceive why not adopt? there are plenty of kids in this world that need loving homes. maybe your mission in life was to adopt, that's why the higher being made you not able to conceive.

babyty: maybe your mission in life was to adopt, that's why the higher being made you not able to conceive.

With all due respect, that is bullshiat.

Come in here dear boy, have a cigar...

\Homo farkers won't get it

veale728: babyty: maybe your mission in life was to adopt, that's why the higher being made you not able to conceive.

With all due respect, that is bullshiat.

THIS

/Ill conceived ridiculous Bullshiat.

veale7282008-10-26 05:03:34 AMbabyty: maybe your mission in life was to adopt, that's why the higher being made you not able to conceive.

With all due respect, that is bullshiat.

Ha, yes, agreed, that's ridiculous, even if there is a higher being, do you really think he gives you a "mission in life". Yea, adoption is a good idea, considering the number of unwanted babies, but your reasoning is a little insane.

babyty: gross. if you can't conceive why not adopt? there are plenty of kids in this world that need loving homes.

According to TFA, they were waiting to adopt, but the grandmother offered (though it's likely closer to insisted) to be a surrogate.

I was always under the impression that it's not exactly the safest thing in the world for a 40 year old to carry a single child, so why would the doctors allow someone pushing 60 to carry three? And considering that they were two months premature and three pounds each, that's all the more reason for families and doctors in the future to be wary of picking 60 year olds as surrogates.

The question is, do you ever tell the kids? If nothing else, that's a license to be teased incessantly as soon as they decide to tell one of their friends. "My grandma gave birth to me"

the ha ha guy2008-10-26 05:24:40 AMbabyty: gross. if you can't conceive why not adopt? there are plenty of kids in this world that need loving homes.

According to TFA, they were waiting to adopt, but the grandmother offered (though it's likely closer to insisted) to be a surrogate.I was always under the impression that it's not exactly the safest thing in the world for a 40 year old to carry a single child, so why would the doctors allow someone pushing 60 to carry three? And considering that they were two months premature and three pounds each, that's all the more reason for families and doctors in the future to be wary of picking 60 year olds as surrogates.

That is strange, doctors will strongly reccomend no more children around 40, sometimes as early as 35 (my moms doctor pretty much said he wouldn't deliver any kids she tried having past 40) so to find one willing to do what I assume has to be a pretty risky procedure like in vitro fertilization, and a c-section seems very unlikely.

the ha ha guy: I was always under the impression that it's not exactly the safest thing in the world for a 40 year old to carry a single child, so why would the doctors allow someone pushing 60 to carry three? And considering that they were two months premature and three pounds each, that's all the more reason for families and doctors in the future to be wary of picking 60 year olds as surrogates.


Multiple births from in vitro fertilization is never really planned, the procedure just leads to a greater likelihood of that multiple births occurring.

Most likely the family was planning on one child, and by chance they got three.

Sum Dum Gai: ?

There are parts of the country where giving birth to your own triplet granddaughters is par for the course.

The south?

I love how the jesus freaks won't have selective abortions caused to over-successful in-vitro fertilizations because abortion goes against "god's plan"

"god's plan" was for you to be infertile dumbass.

/Not talking about TFA
//rant off

Sarah Palin?

babyty: gross. if you can't conceive why not adopt? there are plenty of kids in this world that need loving homes. maybe your mission in life was to adopt, that's why the higher being made you not able to conceive.

Yeah, complete bullshiat. For some of us who are having trouble trying to conceive, it's more than just having some random child to take care of, it's about creating and raising one that came from the uniqueness of the two of US.

... The Aristocrats?

Many, many years ago when I was twenty-three
I was married to a widow who was pretty as could be.
This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red.
My father fell in love with her and soon they, too, were wed.

This made my dad my son-in-law and changed my very life
For my daughter was my mother, 'cause she was my father's wife.
To complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy.

My little baby then became a brother-in-law to dad
And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad
For if he was my uncle, then that also made him brother
To the widow's grown-up daughter, who, of course, was my step-mother.

My father's wife then had a son who kept them on the run
And he became my grand-child, 'cause he was my daughter's son.
My wife is now my mother's mother, and it makes me blue
Because, although she is my wife, she's my grandmother too.

If my wife is my grandmother, then I am her grandchild
And every time I think of it, it nearly drives me wild
For now I have become the strangest case you ever saw
(This has got to be the strangest thing I ever saw)
As husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpaw.

FTA: The two identical twins and their sister [..] were more than two months premature and each weighed less than three pounds. [..] Dalenberg offered herself as a surrogate when Kim Coseno and her husband, Joe, were waiting to adopt.

Woah, that is one impatient couple...

/can totally see the the daughter taking a scalpel to her mother's belly in a bid to speed up the process, eyes gleaming with baby-lust

I'm Zaphod Beeblebrox the first, my father was Zaphod Beeblebrox the second, my grandfather was Zaphod Beeblebrox the third and so on...there was an accident with a contraceptive and a time machine.

Like spreading open a grilled cheese sandwich.

Bendal: babyty: gross. if you can't conceive why not adopt? there are plenty of kids in this world that need loving homes. maybe your mission in life was to adopt, that's why the higher being made you not able to conceive.

Yeah, complete bullshiat. For some of us who are having trouble trying to conceive, it's more than just having some random child to take care of, it's about creating and raising one that came from the uniqueness of the two of US.


The child will be unique whether it's your DNA or not, so why not help out an already existing child that needs parents? Not that I expect every couple to adopt, but this superficial idea that a child is only worth something if it is from your own loins seems a little selfish.

Z1P2

*golf clap*.. nice one

Very impressive, but I bet she can't do it again.

I hope she yelled TA-DA! when they popped out?

555-FILK

There are parts of the country where giving birth to your own triplet granddaughters is par for the course.

The south?

The north?

FTFY See how easy it is to play that game?

This couple didn't have a problem with primary infertility (it was their embryos that were transferred), but rather secondary infertility - they could conceive, but she couldn't carry for whatever reason. My mother offered the same thing after I received the same label after mc #3.

I think the main concern for an older woman having children is more the condition of her eggs, not her physical ability. These weren't her eggs, so they were younger and healthier.

Only two of the embryos took as a result of the transfer - there was a set of identical twins (split from one embryo). The RE may very well have only transferred 2 in an effort to control how many she may have as a result. My doctor said he wouldn't start pushing selective reduction until there were 4 kiddos in there; 3 was sort of a gray area, two was a non-issue.

Having triplets 2 months early sounds about right. The more you're carrying, the earlier you deliver. I have friends who have had twins around 36 weeks, so triplets around 32 sounds fair.

TMYK

\I'm no doctor, just been through more anyone should have to endure.
\\Successfully carried a kiddo on my own - at the age of 36!
\\\Am 5 weeks away from #2 at the age of 38! :)

*shudders* Eeewww! All that trouble just so some barren slytbag can blackmail a hard-working man?

BonesJackson: Multiple births from in vitro fertilization is never really planned, the procedure just leads to a greater likelihood of that multiple births occurring.

Most likely the family was planning on one child, and by chance they got three.

I find it disturbing that selective reduction after IVF or other fertility treatment is not par for the course. It's usually offered as a choice, unless the doctor is a fundie nutjob, but should be standard. Some IVF practitioners make reduction a part of the "contract", but that's rare. If you want to have twins, fine. Triplets, maybe, depending on the medical circumstances. But to carry four to eight embryos to a premature (and most likely damaged) outcome, whether by force or choice, quite frankly should not be allowed to occur. For the record, I find IVF to be unethical in the first place, but if you're going to do it, do it responsibly.

/off my soapbox

CanadaHauntsMe I find it disturbing that selective reduction after IVF or other fertility treatment is not par for the course. It's usually offered as a choice, unless the doctor is a fundie nutjob, but should be standard. Some IVF practitioners make reduction a part of the "contract", but that's rare. If you want to have twins, fine. Triplets, maybe, depending on the medical circumstances. But to carry four to eight embryos to a premature (and most likely damaged) outcome, whether by force or choice, quite frankly should not be allowed to occur. For the record, I find IVF to be unethical in the first place, but if you're going to do it, do it responsibly.

I think we are sharing the same soapbox. The earth is overpopulated.

I also think there is a new trend in Hollywood to purposely have twins, which is just what we need right now. Please people, don't have more than two children.

jacknollie:
Having triplets 2 months early sounds about right. The more you're carrying, the earlier you deliver. I have friends who have had twins around 36 weeks, so triplets around 32 sounds fair.

As a quadruplet born in the late 70's I was 7 weeks early. I was 3 pounds. One of my sister's was only 2 pounds. My mom was carrying over 12 pounds of baby, so it was not a surprise they had to deliver early. I didn't think much of the fact that the babies were only 3 pounds a piece. Add that together and she had a 9 pounds of baby in there. I would think that is par for course.

I think people who aren't hurting anyone else ought to be free to avail themselves of this kind of opportunity, if they can afford to pay for it, and I'm pretty sure the taxpayers didn't pay for any of this. Good for them, and best wishes for Grandma's recovery and the new family. You lose a lot of sleep over one baby. Three must be one heck of a challenge.

I don't see how this is any more "gross" than any of the other aspects of human reproduction.

Came here for The Stupids reference.

/Thank you Zip2
//Now I have that song in my head
///shudders

I wonder how big Gramma's boobs got? Luv a big stacked GILF.

Why can't people just adopt?! This is disgusting! And aren't these kids gonna grow up with some sort of psychological issues when they find out about this crap?!

docilej: I wonder how big Gramma's boobs got? Luv a big stacked GILF.

Omg, GILF!! That is farkin' priceless!

babyty: gross. if you can't conceive why not adopt? there are plenty of kids in this world that need loving homes. maybe your mission in life was to adopt, that's why the higher being made you not able to conceive.

Exactly!

/am adopted
//and an adopter
///dad said it was genetic
////r.i.p. daddy

Because that is what the world needs, more kids.

Im not sure I'd want to grow up knowing I'd touched the inside of my grandmothers vagina.

docilej: I wonder how big Gramma's boobs got? Luv a big stacked GILF.

VladTheEmailer: Im not sure I'd want to grow up knowing I'd touched the inside of my grandmothers vagina.

See, the sad part is, grandma didn't even get laid.

Scoop84: docilej: I wonder how big Gramma's boobs got? Luv a big stacked GILF.

VladTheEmailer: Im not sure I'd want to grow up knowing I'd touched the inside of my grandmothers vagina.

See, the sad part is, grandma didn't even get laid.

At *some* point she must have done.