Octuplet's mom speaks out (My thoughts at BOTTOM in RED...)

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Octuplets' Mom Says She Was Lonely

By JOHN ROGERS

WHITTIER, Calif. (AP) - The veil of secrecy octuplets' mother Nadya Suleman shrouded herself in for more than a week was lifted Thursday with the release of public documents showing that the 33-year-old woman struggled with depression for years until she finally began to realize her childhood dream of having a huge family.

 

The doctors' reports were included in more than 300 pages of documents released to The Associated Press by the state Department of Mental Health on the same day NBC released excerpts of Suleman's first interview since giving birth last month.

Among other things, the documents reveal that Suleman collected more than $165,000 in disability payments between 2002 and 2008 for an injury she said left her in near-constant pain and helped end her marriage.

 

Meanwhile, Suleman told NBC what her mother and others have said since the octuplets were born: that she always wanted a huge family to make up for the isolation she felt as an only child.

 

"That was always a dream of mine, to have a large family, a huge family," she said. "I just longed for certain connections and attachments with another person that ... I really lacked, I believe, growing up."

In the interview — scheduled to air on the "Today" show Monday and again Tuesday on "Dateline" —

 

Suleman calls her childhood "pretty dysfunctional."

In the state report, however, doctors indicate she had a happy childhood. She told them she was an above-average high school student, enjoyed being a cheerleader, had many friends and stayed out of trouble. She said her parents were loving and supportive.

 

As an adult, however, she said she often battled depression as she struggled to get pregnant and particularly after her injury.

 

The report says she had three miscarriages and two ectopic pregnancies, a dangerous condition in which a fertilized egg implants somewhere other than the uterus. She told NBC she struggled for seven years before finally giving birth to her first child in 2001 through in vitro fertilization.

She told a doctor who conducted a psychological evaluation for a workers' compensation claim that the first birth was "the most wonderful, best thing that's ever happened in my life."

 

Suleman said all her children have been born through in vitro fertilization, with sperm donated from a friend. The first six range in age from 2 to 7. The octuplets are doing fine, said officials at Kaiser Permanente's Bellflower Medical Center, where they were born Jan. 26.

 

According to the state documents, which were released to the AP following a public records request, Suleman was injured Sept. 18, 1999, when a riot involving nearly two dozen patients broke out in the women's ward of the Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk, where she worked.

 

As she was helping other staff members restrain a patient, a desk thrown at her by another patient hit her in the back. It caused damage to her spine and left her complaining of headaches and intense pain throughout her lower body for years.

 

 

To read the full article, please go to http://news.aol.com/article/octuplets-mom-speaks/331827

 

 

I'm sorry, but I don't find her credible. There are too many "holes".

If she was already found to be depressed, then why in the world would any doctor even say it's okay for her to go through with having eight babies? And having six children on top of that?! It's insane.

Plus, with her apparent medical history of having severe back problems to the point of being on disability from an injury as she says that she had (and the "proof" showing so), any doctor (again in their RIGHT mind) would not have let her get pregnant with so many children. That is A LOT of weight for her "bad" back to bear.

Makes me wonder if she pulled off "favors" for the doctor to impregnate her with so many embryos at one time. Plus, isn't there to be a maximum of no more than THREE at a time for in vitro??

Nothing that this chick says, I am buying. Come on and open your eyes people (general use here)!! She is NOT doing it just because she wanted a "huge" family. Which indeed she got.

She in my eyes at least DID do it for fame and fortune. And to have OTHERS financially raise these kids for her. Oh and to recieve "financial aide" to finish her Master's and I am pretty sure to get "help" in obtaining her Ph. D.

 

[tiggerrrt]

Feb. 6, 2009 at 11:32 AM

This whole story gives me the creeps...from the doctors who allowed her to do this to the woman who thought this would be good for her 'depression'....the only one I feel for are the children....

[kimberleee382]

Feb. 6, 2009 at 11:55 AM

I think every child she has is nothing more than a payday in her eyes.  She makes me ill.

[pr0udm0m_0f_3]

Feb. 6, 2009 at 12:05 PM

Exactly!! She pulled this off for the money and in the hopes that she would get crap for having a rare pregnancy/birth of Octuplets.

Too bad it really isn't a miracle thing. Being that this was done by in vitro, they don't count this as some rare occurance.

Too bad for her! Her sick, sorry ass is getting all it deserves. Nothing!

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[Lovemybabies885]

Feb. 6, 2009 at 12:06 PM

OMG she is the crazy cat lady of kids...You know the one. She is lonely so she gets 37 cats to make her feel better...this is her but the kid version...these are human children....not collectibles...

[pr0udm0m_0f_3]

Feb. 6, 2009 at 12:11 PM

Lovemybabies885, you know, I never thought of her in that way. But I totally get your point.

That made me when you said "the crazy cat lady of kids"...That was a good one.

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[pr0udm0m_0f_3]

Feb. 6, 2009 at 12:22 PM

Too bad for her! Her sick, sorry ass is getting all it deserves. Nothing!

I wish that were the case................   but I think she got $2 mil right off the bat just for "telling her story."  At least that was the going rate last I heard.

[kimberleee382]

Feb. 6, 2009 at 12:23 PM

I didn't know being a mother was so PROFITABLE.

(I hope ya'll could sense the venom in my tone.)

[pr0udm0m_0f_3]

Feb. 6, 2009 at 12:29 PM

She migght be getting "story money". But the companies like Proctor & Gamble, Pampers Co., Nestles, and the like REFUSE to send her ANYTHING.... They do not see this as a "miracle" birth, being that they were not naturally concieved.

Can I blame the companies for not wanting to provide their products, such as diapers, baby care products or even (God forbid) a minivan from a major car company? No, I certainly cannot.

She is wanting handouts. She is getting some here and there. But, talkshow hosts, radioshow hosts and other media outlets are denouncing her "story" as just a ploy to capitalize on her children.

To me, I don't see her getting very far with this. She may be lucky to get oh...about 10 minutes of fame.

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[itsazoohere]

Feb. 6, 2009 at 12:47 PM

I just wish that everyone on the media had turned on her and refused to give her a dime. She has been on disability for 10 years. That means she had everyone of those planned babies while on disability. I am sorry but if I were a single Mom on disability the last thing I would do is add babies to the mix.

She did this for money. She also filed bankruptcy BEFORE getting pregnant with the last set.Again, why? Because she thinks she is going to get paid for this. She can say what she wants to about feeling lonely. She did this for the money. If the media would  quit paying people like this for there stories then maybe some of the craziness will stop.

[tracy20]

Feb. 6, 2009 at 12:55 PM

ugh!i dislike her even more.if she has bak problems how can she expect her parent s to care for ALL of these children.