The spotlight on the mother of octuplets is turning to the fertility doctor who helped her give birth not once but 14 times by implanting Nadya Suleman with fertilized embryos.
The Medical Board of California investigating the doctor — whom it did not name — to see if there was a “violation of the standard of care,” board spokeswoman Candis Cohen said Friday.
Suleman, 33, of Whittier, already had six children when she gave birth Jan. 26 to octuplets. The births to an unemployed, divorced single mother prompted angry questions about how she plans to provide for her children.
But the backlash seems to have extended as well to Suleman’s doctor.
In the United States, there is no law dictating the number of embryos that can be placed in a mother’s womb. Multiple embroys can be implanted to improve the odds that one will take.
However, there are national guidelines which put the norm at two to three embryos for a woman of Suleman’s age, in order to lessen the health risks to the mother and the chances of multiple births.
When asked why so many embryos were implanted, Suleman told NBC: “Those are my children, and that’s what was available and I used them. So, I took a risk. It’s a gamble. It always is.”
According to state documents, Suleman told a doctor she had three miscarriages. Another doctor disputed that number, saying she had two ectopic pregnancies, a dangerous condition in which a fertilized egg implants somewhere other than in the uterus.
This all sounds like a plan for books and made for tv movies…..from the doctor and the baby factory….why else would she need a publicist? This is gonna be a big story when all is learned about players in this drama.
Time for someone to step up and draw a line about this procedure and limit the number of fertilized eggs to 2 or 3….8 is too damn many and needs to be investigated from all angles.
I’ve written a few articles about this on my website.
I agree, this is appauling… this never should have happened and something needs to be done to make sure it won’t happen again. This procedure is also supposed to be expensive… I would like to know who paid for it… if the mother used her savings to pay for it then it gives legal precidence for negligence by spending all her money that she needed to provide for the other children.
Hello Hackett and welcome to Info Ink…….I agree and when the cost of raising a chilkd is about $10,000 a year , without college, where is that cash gonna come from….and the doctors were off the scale with this IVF……looks like all involved are looking to cash in on this situation….at least to me.
That chick’s crazy. Maybe we shouldn’t turn into China and limit babies per household, but this lady has no real income as far as anyone can tell. I wonder if Social Services will eventually get involved. And what kind of “doctor” would implant that many embryos?
Jenny–one looking for a book deal or made for tv movie……eventually we will have to address the “real” problem of the planer…the population.
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