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06-17-2007, 03:16 AM
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| | | Third Minnesota sextuplet dies; others in critical condition Third Minnesota sextuplet dies; others in critical condition
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (AP) -- Half of the sextuplets born prematurely to a Minnesota couple have now died, while the others remained in critical condition, hospital officials said Saturday.
A third boy, Lincoln Sean Morrison, died Friday. Two of his brothers, Tryg and Bennet, died earlier in the week.
The four boys and two girls were born last Sunday about 4½ months early at a Minneapolis hospital. Doctors had advised the couple to selectively reduce the number of viable fetuses to two, but they declined.
Parents Ryan and Brianna Morrison released a statement saying it has been "a difficult week" for them, and they thanked everyone for their prayers and support.
"We continue to trust in the Lord and are hopeful for a good outcome for Cadence, Lucia and Sylas," the statement said.
Hospital officials said no further information would be released. What would you do? I think I would try to save the two. | 
06-17-2007, 04:44 AM
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| | | try and save the two.
for so, so many reasons.
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06-17-2007, 11:10 AM
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| | | I am pro-choice...all the way, and I respect the decision of any parents--even if it is not what I would do.
I don't know if I could say what I would do, as I have never been in that particular situation.
I have seen an awful lot of news coverage about this story...and this bothers me, as I do not think anyone should give a fuck about this kind of stuff. | 
06-17-2007, 07:22 PM
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| | | it is important because there are so many freakish multiple births now | 
06-17-2007, 10:27 PM
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| | | I assumed that a lot of it is because of the increased use of fertility treatments.
I think if you go to a doctor and receive a treatment that they tell you directly is more likely to produce "multiples," the birth of multiples would not be freakish but kind of anticipated.
At any rate, these people can get off the front page of my paper now. | 
06-18-2007, 10:19 AM
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| | | This kind of 'news" is why I stopped paying attention to CNN and my local paper.
"Humans are not meant to give birth like dogs" is not a breaking headline. However, if any of them survive the parents need to thank modern medicine not the lord. | 
06-19-2007, 12:40 PM
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| | | That would be such a difficult decision to make. How would you know that you're keeping the right ones? You might regret which ones you abort if the ones that you keep turn out to be little shits.
What if you abort some in the hope that you can save the others, but you lose the others anyway? You might have picked the ones that aren't really "survivors".
There's so many "what if's" about the situation.
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06-19-2007, 04:20 PM
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| | | That's disgusting. I'm not trying to be rude, but I'll bet with the rising costs of everything in this country, the taxpayers will have to pay for their "little miracles". I'm sick of paying taxes so that other people can breed like rats. | 
06-19-2007, 05:06 PM
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Originally Posted by JohnGalt However, if any of them survive the parents need to thank modern medicine not the lord. | yes, "he" ahem, didnt save the millions of AIDS babies and their parents in Africa so why should "he" give a fuck about a few excess multiple birth babies in America? Silly notion.
Anyway, poor chaps, if worst comes worst, at least they'll have less babies to look after. Multiple birth babies are EXHAUSTING to look after. | 
06-19-2007, 05:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Violet83 That's disgusting. I'm not trying to be rude, but I'll bet with the rising costs of everything in this country, the taxpayers will have to pay for their "little miracles". I'm sick of paying taxes so that other people can breed like rats. | I don't think that is necessarily true. Fertility treatments are really expensive, and if the couple could afford those with no issue, I don't think they would have problem raising children...or at least not financially.
Plus, the last time a couple had a shit-huge group of kids, all kinds of companies came forward and donated all kinds of products for them to use. Plus, if they are involved with a church (which I am sure they are), the church would probably be really supportive of their "little miracles." | 
06-21-2007, 12:09 AM
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| | | Wait... did they take fertility treatment JUST so they could have multiples... or because they couldn't get pregnant at all without treatment and the sextuplets were a side effect? | 
06-21-2007, 02:26 AM
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| | | How heart breaking it may be, I think you should do what's right.
If you have fertility treatment, you want a child.
There is no room in a womb for 6 baby's, so it makes perfect sense to abort 3 or 4.
If you want kids, you want them to live and be healthy.
They need room to grow for that and be carried as close to term as possible with multiples.
And it's not a hard choice, do you want to have 6 kids who will probably ALL die, or have 2 or 3 healthy kids by sacrificing 3 or 4 others?
I don't get why people put situations like these in the hands of god when you need fertility treatment to get pregnant.
Isn't that gods way of saying you should adopt? | 
06-21-2007, 02:27 AM
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Originally Posted by OrangeSapphire Wait... did they take fertility treatment JUST so they could have multiples... or because they couldn't get pregnant at all without treatment and the sextuplets were a side effect? | I highly doubt they'd do that just to get multiples.
And I doubt any self respecting doctor would give a fertile couple fertility treatment for the sake of them having multiples.
I'd say option #2. | 
06-21-2007, 03:11 PM
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| | | Multiples can run in the family. The aunt of a girl I went to school with had triplets 2 pregnancies in a row. The mum was one of a set of triplets, and both her and her husband had a history of it happening in their families.
But it's not usually more than 3 or 4 in one pregnancy, even things like octuplets happening naturally are *very* rare.
Very large multiple births that happen due to IVF I believe are due to the doctors implanting multiple eggs so that there's a better chance of at least 1 implanting and becoming a viable foetus. It seems to cost the same whether you implant just the one (and if it doesn't work, then you have to do more rounds of IVF which cost more) as it does to implant multiple to try to end up with at least 1 baby, in case some of them are duds.
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06-22-2007, 02:34 AM
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Originally Posted by sick_chick Multiples can run in the family. The aunt of a girl I went to school with had triplets 2 pregnancies in a row. The mum was one of a set of triplets, and both her and her husband had a history of it happening in their families.
But it's not usually more than 3 or 4 in one pregnancy, even things like octuplets happening naturally are *very* rare. | Jesus, 6 kids?!?
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