7 babies in 3 years-quadruplets following triplets + 2 older kids

[underpants]

Mom Has Quadruplets 3 Years After Triplets

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2186379

Magdaleno, who had triplets three years ago, gave birth to quadruplets on July 6 by Caesarean section in what doctors said was a rare occurrence of multiple births. Though she used fertility drugs with the triplets, she didn't with the quadruplets.



Then she got pregnant with the quadruplets. Magdaleno said she was shocked at the news.

"She wanted to run," said her husband, Afredo Anzaldo, 45, who lays carpet for a living.

The babies were born at 32 weeks well beyond the 29-week average for quadruplets. At birth, the girls were 4 pounds and 17 and 17.5 inches long; the boys about 3.5 pounds and 16 inches long.

Shaw said the odds of conceiving quadruplets without fertility drugs are about one in 800,000. She's seen only one other case of quadruplets being conceived without drugs 18 years ago.

All 11 family members will be living in a one-bedroom apartment in east Los Angeles. She said the living room is large, but she isn't sure what the family will do when the babies get bigger.

[Xithras]

1. CPS will take the kids if they don't move.

I don't know exactly where the age cutoff is, but a friend of my wifes had her children taken by CPS because there were five kids in a one bedroom house, in addition to the two parents. Legally in California, boys and girls can't share a bedroom after a certain age. It's possible to get by with a two bedroom if you put the boys in one, the girls in the other, and the parents sleep in the living room, but that's about it. If anyone calls CPS on these people, they're going to have some serious problems.

[LeftyMom]

2. If they were white, somebody'd donate a house and a van

Like that woman in the midwest who had a huge litter a few years back got.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. Well, that's fucked up.

Lots of kids in single bedroom houses worked fine for hundreds of years.

:shrug:

[Momgonepostal]

6. I didn't know that!

That seems really horrible. Granted, I don't think living with that many children in a small space is a great idea, and I sure has heck would have sent my husband to vasectomyland after a set a triplets, but it hardly seems like abuse. That law/policy seems like discrimination against poor people.

Do you know the age at which children of opposite genders have to be in separate rooms?

I wonder why they choose to give fertility drugs to a woman with two children. Did they really think she had become infertile?

[LeftyMom]

8. Secondary fertility isn't uncommon

I know of quite a few women who had no trouble concieving thier first child (or first few children) who had to turn to assisted reproduction to complete thier families. Sometimes it's a function of age, sometimes the mother develops a condition like endometriosis or PCOS that makes subsequent conceptions or pregnancies difficult.

[Momgonepostal]

9. I've known people who had trouble setting pg after 1

...but never after 2. I'd be curious to know how old the first two children are.

The whole thing sounds like a very bad situation.

[LeftyMom]

10. With the woman I'm thinking of, they were 8 and 2.

The lady in question was somethere in her mid 30's.

[Momgonepostal]

11. Not to make light of her situation

I'm sure infertility is very sad.

However...when I weigh being infertile with having 9 children, 7 on them in 3 years, I think I'd go with infertility.

[LeftyMom]

12. Me too.

For a while my midwife thought LeftyKid might be twins. The thought scared the hell out of me. :scared: I like being a mother but I know my limits and I certainly could not handle such a herd.

[Gormy Cuss]

3. Clarification for those who don't go to the link:that's the doc, not the

mother, holding the quads.

It would appear that the fertility drugs had a longer lasting effect than usual.

[underpants]

7. Thanks for the clarification

:hi:

[Burma Jones]

4. I suggest they form a traveling Baseball team.......

Until then, I hope they get some help from the community.....

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

13. It was a bad idea for that crazy Republican Jim Bob's wife

And it was a bad idea for this lady too.

HELL, people! There's such a thing as CONTRACEPTIVES! And CONDOMS! And TUBAL LIGATIONS!

Have they no BRAINS?

[Bridget Burke]

15. The lady had to use in-vitro fertilization for the triplets.

So she probably didn't think pregnancy was a "danger."

Oops!

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. She looks tired

:shrug:

[Bridget Burke]

16. It's been pointed out that the lady in the picture is the OB.

But she has a right to look tired, too.

[NewWaveChick1981]

17. All I can say is, "OWWWWWW!!!!"

:yoiks: