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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-16-07 05:02 PM
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8. This is a pretty unusual situation
because I know docs are taking precautions to limit the number of multiple births. Women were never meant to have four to eight babies at a time. It's dangerous to the mom and incredibly dangerous to any infants who get born alive.

Many fertility clinics have contracts people sign agreeing to limit the number of fetuses should a large multiple pregnancy occur. That can be heartbreaking to people who have gone to extremes to produce their own children, but the alternative is having multiple low birth weight babies who go on to have multiple health problems if they survive infancy.

I hope this poor couple has the remaining children survive.

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