Octuplets Mother Was Obsessed With Having
Children
Foxnews
Saturday,
January 31, 2009
Obsessed and fixated on
being a mother since being a teenager. Here we have an unsaved, divorced woman who’s driving interest is to have children, she had six
children and wanted more. While the entire situation is 180 degrees out of
phase with a woman being married with a loving husband, and having created a
loving Godly household in which to raise up seed in the fear and admonition of
the Lord, yet there is this obsession, this fixation on being a mother since
being a teenager, and more so being the mother of a quiver full that puts the
greatest majority of women in the church of this day and hour to shame.
We have chronicled for
the last three years dozens of articles citing falling population numbers
throughout westernized nations where Christian mothers are the mothers of none,
one or two, while at the same time chronicling in the greatest majority of
these same nations the explosion of births by Muslim mothers.
IF in any village, town,
city, state, or nation Christian wives would become so obsessed, so fixated to
have children as this unrighteous woman what would the results be in their local
communities? If in a grade school, a
middle school, a high school what would it be like if the school were flooded
with children so in love with Jesus Christ? What would it be like in a business
community to have many members in so love with Christ? In politics what would
it be like to have God fearing men and women that are so in love with Jesus?
There is a dearth in the
Make no mistake the
church of this day and hour for this lack in its women is languishing, is
withering, is empty and fruitless on the vine.
The mother of six who gave birth to octuplets
in
Nadya Suleman, 33, conceived all 14 of
her babies through in vitro fertilization, her mother told The Associated
Press. She isn't married and has been fixated on being a mother since she was a teenager, Angela Suleman said.
Last year, Nadya Suleman decided to have
more embryos implanted, hoping to have "just one more girl," her
mother told The Los Angeles Times.
"And look what
happened. Octuplets. Dear God," Angela Suleman
told the newspaper Friday.
She said she wasn't
supportive of her daughter's decision to try to get pregnant again.
"It can't go on any longer," the grandmother told
the AP. "She's got six children and no husband. I was brought up the
traditional way. I firmly believe in marriage. But she didn't want to get
married."
It wasn't clear whether
the octuplets mother was ever married. Angela Suleman told the Times that her daughter is divorced but
the ex-husband isn't the babies' father.
Nadya Suleman gave birth Monday in
A spokeswoman at
While her daughter
recovers, Angela Suleman is taking care of the other
six children, ages 2 through 7, at the family home in Whittier, about 15 miles
east of downtown Los Angeles.
She said she warned her
daughter, "I'm going to be gone" when she gets home from the
hospital.
Reports Friday cast Nadya Suleman in an unflattering
light. CBS News reported that the single mother filed for bankruptcy and
abandoned her home less than two years ago.
The elder Suleman told the Times her daughter "is not evil, but
she is obsessed with children. She loves children, she is very good with
children, but obviously she overdid herself."
She said all her grandchildren were conceived using
the same sperm donor, according to the Times, but she declined to identify him.
Angela Suleman said her daughter always had trouble conceiving and
underwent in vitro fertilization treatments because her fallopian tubes are
"plugged up."
There were frozen
embryos left over after her previous pregnancies and her daughter didn't want
them destroyed, so she decided to have more children.
Her mother and doctors
have said the woman was told she had the option to abort some of the embryos
and, later, the fetuses. She declined.
Her mother said she does
not believe her daughter will have any more children.
"She doesn't have
any more (frozen embryos), so it's over now," she said. "It has to
be."
Nadya Suleman wanted to have children
since she was a teenager, "but luckily she couldn't," her mother
said.
"Instead of
becoming a kindergarten teacher or something, she started having them, but not
the normal way," he mother said.
Her daughter's obsession
with children caused Angela Suleman considerable
stress, so she sought help from a psychologist, who told her to order her
daughter out of the house.
"Maybe she wouldn't
have had so many kids then, but she is a grown woman," Angela Suleman said. "I feel responsible and I didn't want to
throw her out."
Yolanda Garcia, 49, of
"From what I could
tell back then, she was pretty happy with herself, saying she liked having kids
and she wanted 12 kids in all," Garcia told the Long Beach Press-Telegram.
"She told me that
all of her kids were through in vitro, and I said 'Gosh, how can you afford
that and go to school at the same time?"' she added. "And she said
it's because she got paid for it."
Garcia said she did not
ask for details.
Nadya Suleman holds a 2006 degree in
child and adolescent development from
Her fertility doctor has
not been identified. Her mother told the Los Angeles Times all the children
came from the same sperm donor but she declined to identify him.
Birth certificates
reviewed by The Associated Press identify a David Solomon as the father for the
four oldest children. Certificates for the other children were not immediately
available.
The news that the octuplets' mother already had six children sparked an
ethical debate in the reproductive medicine field and lively Internet
conversations.
Some medical experts
were disturbed to hear that the woman was offered fertility treatment, and
troubled by the possibility that she was implanted with so many embryos.
Others worried that the
mother would be overwhelmed trying to raise her brood and would end up relying
on public support.
The eight babies — six
boys and two girls — were delivered by Caesarean section weighing between 1
pound, 8 ounces and 3 pounds, 4 ounces. Forty-six physicians and staff assisted
in the deliveries.