Mom Gave Birth To 3 Boys 3 Girls Monday

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HERSHEY, Pa. -- A Pennsylvania family has more than doubled its size in a single day.

Kate Gosselin gave birth to sextuplets Monday --- delivering three new sons and three new daughters by Caesarean section.

Her husband said it's "truly an amazing thing." He said his wife had been taking a fertility drug. The Gosselins are also the parents of 3-year-old twins.

Kate Gosselin is reported in good condition and the babies in satisfactory condition.

Jonathan Gosselin said the family's church has offered to pay to expand their home, and various corporations have made donations.

http://www.wftv.com/family/3290905/detail.html

How cool! Hope Tylenol decides to donate!

Thanks for the laugh. The parent's are sure going to need Tylenol . Wow just wait until they all turn 16 ...

And no kidding! Could you imagine those kids when they get in school? Fees, yearbooks, lunch, etc. WOW.

against littering

I wish the best for them but hasn't their been a unnatural boom in "4-or-more" child births in the last 10 years or so. Kind of scary if you ask me.

Holy shit, 5 babies running around the household?!? I think I'd lock myself in the garage with the car running!

3+3=6

:)

I was half asleep.

These types bug me, especially the ones that like to invoke "a blessing from God" into it all when the "blessing" comes from chemically induced over-ovulation.
One at a time is hard (or two at a time if you naturally give birth to twins or very rarely triplets) enough to give them the attention and care they deserve. Not to mention these babies will be lucky to all end up normal and healthy after their 3-9 month stays in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Perhaps I'm insensitive never having dealt with fertility issues, but I don't get why these folks needed fertility drugs. Two kids in three years wasn't enough? They needed six more right then and there?

I always wonder about who pays for all the neo-natal costs. Surely not one has that much insurance. Is it all written off?

And it sort of nauseates me how communities give them everything under the sun. What about poor and homeless families and individuals who are at least as deserving?

I think much of the attention comes from the anti-abortion groups, who blather about how wonderful it is that they did not about any of the fetuses when they found out how many there were.

My cousin and his wife did this. They had four kids at once. It was all I could do not to send them a sympathy card. I have no respect for them. The town built them a house. Other deserving families cannot even afford to own a house.

They have everything given to them for these children. They have round the clock volunteers, when many families cannot even afford safe day care. They are not even raising their own children.

Maybe I am insensitive, too. I had no fertility problems. But I think all this stuff is over the top, especially when we have worldwide population problems.

Neonatal care for one very sick child can run upwards of $1 million. For six, supposing they're very small and unstable, would be a fortune.

I don't get why these folks needed fertility drugs. Two kids in three years wasn't enough?

Couldn't agree with you more. I have very harsh views on fertility drugs, but I will keep my mouth shut because I am sure I would piss many a person off with the things I would say!

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it's disgusting. And it's becoming more and more frequent. And, half the time these are the same anti-abortion nuts. If they want kids so bad there are tons to adopt. That's my plan if I ever decide to have kids.

I researched this field in response to a constituent request for legislation forcing health insurance providers to cover costs for fertility treatment. I learned that when the field initially started up, and the docs requested government grants for research/tests, the ultraconservatives blocked them completely. The repubs opposed the clinics because many of the proposed treatments were considered to involve abortion (such as the discard of excess fertilized eggs).

However, many infertile couples are so desperate to have a biological child, and are wealthy enough, that the field has become incredibly profitable - and without government funding, there is no government oversight. The medical communities in Europe describe the U.S. as the Wild West of infertility treatment.

As one pharmacist explained to me, in the U.S., once a drug has been approved by the government, it can be prescribed in any amount for any purpose, even though testin of it may have been in much smaller amounts for a limited purpose. He said the first time he saw prescriptions from a fertility clinic, he was horrified
at the amounts.

On a personal note, my daughter's closest friend took massive amounts of fertility drugs (to stimulate egg production) for many months before the clinic belatedly performed a test which discovered that her fallopian tubes were blocked, so no matter how many eggs her ovaries produced, she couldn't get pregnant
through normal intercourse. So then the couple went through the procedure of removing her eggs surgically, fertilizing them and placing them in her womb. She gave birth to twins. By then
her body was riddled with 5 or 6 kinds of cancer and she died shortly after her kids' first birthday. She had been extremely ill from the time she first started taking the drugs. My point is that if the clinic had been required by government regulation to ALWAYS test for fallopian tube blockage before giving massive doses of drugs, she could have had children and lived to see them grow up. Also, no one has studied the effects of these drugs on the children born to mothers who took them.

WE NEED GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT, especially in health care areas where the private sector can make huge profits.

I kept looking at your title like huh? I swear to got I thought the headline was "Man Gave Birth to 3 Boys 3 Girls Monday"

Ford Excursion here we come!

bet they had the baby shower in a barn just so they could invite more people to buy them shit :grr:

they can pour gasoline on it and burn it down for a birthday party.

All my kids are special, Taylor, Tyler, Mindy, Buffy, Krystale, Montana and the other two that came out early

I think I would have to be on a hell of a lot of drugs to have six babies after twins.