The reality is - a baby needs far more than 45 minutes of attention daily - and 8 babies need 8 times as much attention daily as one does. Premature babies eat frequently - sometimes as often as every two hours - and generally it takes at least 30 minute to give a bottle. Small babies are slow babies - and they can’t hold much more than 2 or 3 ounces at a time. Add another half hour for burping, changing and cuddling and you’ve lost yourself an hour already. One person couldn’t even, logistically speaking, manage to feed 8 premature infants every two hours. The most she could manage would be two of them and it would be time to restart with the first as soon as she finished with the second - ad infinitum.
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(via indieandyy)
We here at BBOA have a lot to say about this whole octuplet mess, but this story warranted immediate posting.
If you insist on having children, and you insist on using fertility drugs, you have a responsibility to insist on being RATIONAL and REASONABLE about implantation and reduction. It is your first and most important job as a parent: ensuring that all of your children make it through their entire gestation, ensuring that they are healthy and well, and ensuring that you are capable of caring for them. For the love of god and all that is holy, what was this woman thinking?
