Octuplets mom obsessed with having kids

The woman who gave birth to octuplets this week conceived all 14 of her children through in vitro fertilization,has been obsessed with having children since she was a teenager,and she is not married, Angela Suleman said and a grandma of the 14 children. Angela Suleman is not supportive to Nadya Suleman who decided to have vitro fertilization.

The eight babies — six boys and two girls — were delivered by cesarean section weighing between 1 pound, 8 ounces and 3 pounds, 4 ounces. Forty-six physicians and staff assisted in the deliveries.

Nadya Suleman, 33, got all her 14 children with no husband, she give birth Monday in nearby Bellflower, and remain in a few days in hospital, and her newly born babies for maybe a month. The babies were progressing daily, with all eight breathing unassisted and being tube-fed.

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.

Nadya Suleman always had trouble conceiving and underwent in vitro fertilization treatments because her fallopian tubes are "plugged up."
Angela Suleman, Nadya's mother, warned her daughter that when she gets home from the hospital, "I'm going to be gone."

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 refused.

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.

Angela Suleman said that her daughter is a grown woman the she maybe wouldn't have had many kids then. And that she is responsible and didn't want to throw her daughter out.

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.

Yolanda Garcia, 49, of Whittier, said she helped care for Nadya Suleman's autistic son three years ago.

Nadya Suleman was pretty happy with herself as she like kids and she wanted 12 kids but became 14 kids in all. All her kids were through in vitro.

Garcia said she did not ask for details.

Nadya Suleman holds a 2006 degree in child and adolescent development from California State University, Fullerton, and as late as last spring she was studying for a master's degree in counseling.

Her fertility doctor has not been identified. According to Her mother all the children came from the same sperm donor.

Birth certificates of the four oldest children father identified as David Solomon. No other information available about the father of the other children.
The doctors implanted Nadya Suleman far fewer than eight embryos but they multiplied. Experts say this could be possible since Nadya's system has likely been hyperstimulated for years with fertilization treatment and drugs.

The news that the octuplets' mother already had six children sparked an ethical debate. Some medical experts were disturbed to hear that she was offered fertility treatment, and troubled by the possibility that she was implanted with so many embryos.

"You should always shoot for one," said Dr. Marcelle Cedars, a professor and director of reproductive health at the University of California, San Francisco, Medical Center, who worried about the increased risk of potential health complications for the babies.

Others worried that she would be overwhelmed trying to raise so many children and would end up relying on public support.

"This woman could not comprehend the ramifications of having eight children of the same age at the same time," said Judith Horowitz, a Parkland, Fla.-based psychologist and author who works with couples on fertility issues. "After Pampers stops delivering the free diapers, then what?"