The Sunday Sidebar: Having Babies ‘Too Old, Too Young, Too Many’
February 15, 2009 by Liz Lewis
Filed under A Mother's Wisdom, Children, Exposed!, Extreme, Morning News, Oddities, The Sunday Sidebar
Today’s Sunday Sidebar focuses on three different cases that intrigue and mystify me.
First up, the 60 year old woman from Western Canadian who recently gave birth to twins. Seems she had her heart set on having children and when it didn’t happen naturally, resorted to IVF treatment in India (Canada apparently has a cutoff age of 50). I’m sorry but having twins at 60 sounds more like a nightmare than a blessing. Keeping up with one infant would be hard enough but two? Even a thirty year old might have problems doing that.
Second up, the baby faced 13 year old father in England. These kids (the mother is just 15) might have the energy to raise a child but as we all know, it takes so much more than just energy. It takes money. It takes maturity.
And third, there is Octo Mom who, even though she already has six children under age of 7, went to a fertility clinic, an action that resulted in her recently having octuplets. I’m still trying to get my head around this one. Why would anyone do this? Actually, why would any doctor allow this to happen? This woman believes that she can raise all 14 children but also go back to college in the fall and complete a master’s degree in counseling. Seriously, she plans on studying! When! How! The house will be full of children.
Any thoughts?
I recently wrote about the Octo Mom myself and I find it more than disturbing that a doctor have no qualms about giving fertility treatment to a women with 6 young children already. Whatever happen to “do no harm”?
If you think thats bad, I recently witnessed a 22 year old become a GRANDMOTHER. Yes, she had a daughter at 11 and I watched her 11 year old daughter have a child. Now thats bad!!
Deana, that is seriously scary!!!