According to this article:As the initial excitement over the “miracle” octuplets wears off, some medical professionals now say more should have been done by doctors and infertility specialists to perdissuade the mother to reduce the number of babies she was carrying.
Weinert said that the real miracle at Bellflower was not that all eight embryos developed, but that she was able to carry them for 30 weeks, seven weeks after being admitted into the hospital.
On the surface this doesn't seem too surprising--after all doctors reportedly thought she was carrying seven babies. But when you consider that the mother lives with her parents in a 2-bedroom house, that the family makes about $61K annually in household income, (as other articles have stated), AND that the mother's parents declared bankruptcy in 2008.
Who is going to take care of these children, and what was everyone involved in this thinking?
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