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HappyPike
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posted April 07, 2002 10:18 PM |
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She's a mom times six
Can I post interesting news here for people to discuss?
This is from CNN:
She's a mom times six
Kansas woman gives birth to sextuplets
April 7, 2002 Posted: 7:46 AM EDT (1146 GMT)
WICHITA, Kansas (AP) -- A woman who used fertility drugs gave birth to sextuplets Saturday and doctors say the three boys and three girls appear healthy.
Only 96 sets of sextuplets have been born worldwide since recording began in the early 1900s, said doctors at Via Christi Regional Medical Center-St. Joseph, where a 24-member medical team delivered the babies by Caesarean section Saturday afternoon.
Mother Sondra Headrick, 33, and her husband Eldon, 32, live in Rago, about 40 miles southwest of Wichita.Until Saturday Rago had a population of 12.
Headrick has been in the hospital for the past 93 days. Doctors said they delivered the babies Saturday because they feared for the health of one of the children.
Four were on a respirator Saturday night and the other two children were on oxygen, but doctors say they were all doing well.
Each baby weighed between 2 pounds 10 ounces and 3 pounds 11ounces and they all squealed when they were born, Dr. Katherine Schooley said.
Headrick carried the children for 31 weeks. A full pregnancy is 40 weeks, but in Headrick's case doctors had hoped she would carry them for at least 26 or 27 weeks.
"It is a miracle the mother was able to hold onto the babies as long as she did," Schooley said. "I anticipate all the babies are going to do very beautifully."
The Headricks did not appear at a hospital news conference Saturday night and could not be reached for comment.
The babies -- named Ethan Roy, Melissa Sue, Grant Douglas, Sean Edward, Jaycie Linette, and Danielle Patrice -- are to be hospitalized for four to six weeks. Their mother is expected to go home in a few days.
Headrick and her husband already have one daughter, 4-year-old Aubrianna and they used fertility drugs last summer to conceive.
Doctors had told the couple the pregnancy could be aborted or reduced by four, giving the two remaining fetuses a better chance of survival
Sondra Headrick said abortion was not a choice. She and her husband had already seen six heartbeats flickering on the doctor's sonogram video monitor.
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shadowstormed
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posted April 07, 2002 11:10 PM |
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emmmm... is there a point behind this thread??
weird anyway 
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posted April 07, 2002 11:23 PM |
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Eeuuuuuuuuwwww!!!
Think of the stretch marks!! And the nappies!! and how much it will cost to sent them through college..
*swallows her birth control pill*
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shadowstormed
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posted April 07, 2002 11:34 PM |
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god that must of hurt, ah oh well,
she'll go bankrupt when her children grow up
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Wesley
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posted April 07, 2002 11:48 PM |
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Hmmm
That's gonna hurt! OUCH! 1 baby is already a hell what about 6? Poor lady! How can that happen anyway? 6 thingies all get to the egg at the same time? That's really amazing! That guy has speed seed.
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posted April 07, 2002 11:50 PM |
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No, it's six different eggs implanted ready fertilised... fertility treatment, remember?
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Sir_Stiven
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posted April 08, 2002 12:24 AM |
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Bah this is old news to me (but then i live in sweden  ) there was a program on TV that showed an english couple get sixlings and how the girls was doing when they were like 14-15 years. i didnt see the program tho so i dunno anymore info.
/Stefan
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arachnid
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posted April 08, 2002 12:25 AM |
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why does everyone think they will become broke they have hit the jackpot! all they have to do now is show the freakshow off and watch the money roll in, everyone will be given them loads.
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posted April 08, 2002 12:27 AM |
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Bah this is old news to me (but then i live in sweden ) there was a program on TV that showed an english couple get sixlings and how the girls was doing when they were like 14-15 years. i didnt see the program tho so i dunno anymore info.
/Stefan
They were born on 18th November, 1983... my exact birthday..
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Sir_Stiven
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posted April 08, 2002 12:31 AM |
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creepy...
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