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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican woman is pregnant with nine babies - six girls and three boys - the country's main broadcaster Televisa reported on Thursday night.
The woman was identified as Karla Vanessa Perez of the northeastern state of Coahuila, which borders Texas. She is currently being treated at a hospital in the state capital Saltillo, the broadcaster said in the report.
Perez, whose age was not given, had fertility treatment leading to the multiple pregnancy, it said.
State-owned news agency Notimex also reported the pregnancy, saying Perez was due to give birth on May 20.
"It's very early to think of names for the babies," Perez told Notimex. "First I hope that everything goes well."
The successful delivery of nonuplets would be one of the highest multiple births ever recorded.
In 2009, a woman in California gave birth to octuplets, sparking worldwide media attention.
(Reporting By Ioan Grillo; editing by Todd Eastham)
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Woman pregnant with 9 kids?
I'll be honest - I saw this on TMZ first. All I can think is WHY?? Why would you want so many kids? So many infants at one time? WHAT is this going to do to her body? I cannot imagine.
Karla Vanessa Perez, Mexican Woman, Reportedly Pregnant With 9 Babies
Reuters | Posted: 04/27/2012 1:18 am Updated: 04/27/2012 5:55 am
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican woman is pregnant with nine babies - six girls and three boys - the country's main broadcaster Televisa reported on Thursday night.
The woman was identified as Karla Vanessa Perez of the northeastern state of Coahuila, which borders Texas. She is currently being treated at a hospital in the state capital Saltillo, the broadcaster said in the report.
Perez, whose age was not given, had fertility treatment leading to the multiple pregnancy, it said.
State-owned news agency Notimex also reported the pregnancy, saying Perez was due to give birth on May 20.
"It's very early to think of names for the babies," Perez told Notimex. "First I hope that everything goes well."
The successful delivery of nonuplets would be one of the highest multiple births ever recorded.
In 2009, a woman in California gave birth to octuplets, sparking worldwide media attention.
(Reporting By Ioan Grillo; editing by Todd Eastham)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/27/karla-vanessa-perez-pregnant-9-babies_n_1457990.html
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Re: Woman pregnant with 9 kids?
There's a reason this would be the highest multiple birth ever recorded...
YOU ARE NOT MEANT TO HAVE 9 BABIES IN YOU AT ONCE! YOU ARE NOT HAVING A LITTER OF PUPPIES!
So not right.
9 infants with guaranteed special needs.
No way she's due on May 20th. It is impossible to carry 9 babies until, what, 35 weeks?
I have a HS friend who had quintuplets, and she only made it to 29 weeks I think? Her belly was the size of someone 42 weeks pregnant at that point, or some other crazy number.
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I think women have been recorded as having up to a dozen or so fetuses in their uterus at once. Obviously, live births of such large, um, multiple pregnancies (definitely wanted to use the word litter) rarely if ever happen.
*shudder* It's just irresponsible to become pregnant with so many babies due to fertility treatments. Fertility treatments GREATLY increase your chance of multiples. Like, twins and triplets. But if you overstimulate your follicles and have a dozen eggs hanging out? STOP. And you don't transfer a dozen embryos to your uterus, either!
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my dr told me we're not meant to have 2 at one time, much less 9. that's terrible,
as for how she's going to look afterwards, it's going to take surgery to correct that hot mess.
If carrying/birthing 9 infants didn't kill me, then caring for 9 absolutely would. Even thinking about it makes me want to cry.
Maybe that's the date she's scheduled for a c-section if she makes it that far?
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your due date is your due date no matter how many you're carrying. no one expects you to go that far. once you have more than 1 in you they reduce the number of weeks they will allow you to carry but they still calculate it the same way.
edited to clarify: i don't think that 5/20 is her "due date" in the way we talk about a "due date". someone else said it might be the date they hope for her to get to and i agree with that guess. because you're 100% right, there is no way she can make it that long.
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Bhahahaha!
This is how I feel about this mother-
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Sad to say, but they won't live.
Wait, what? Do you have a source for this?
You typically don't get to just "choose IVF" - there is typically a protocol for IF treatments and you normally don't jump to IVF unless you have exhausted other options or if IVF is the only thing that will work for you.
Either way, this lies on her doctor, 100%. We did IUI and were told that if my u/s showed more than two mature follies, they would cancel the IUI and either proceed with IVF or cancel the cycle.
The fact that her doctor still went forward with an IUI with that many mature follies is disgusting.
Or their cycle could have been cancelled and then they went home and had sex, like J&K did
Ah, good point. I guess I'm naive in thinking most people would actually follow doctor's orders
In America, people tend to do IUI first because of the money issue. Almost ten years ago my clinic did a trifling number of IUIs, and my RE sighed and asked if I'd been reading American information when I asked about IUI. But increasingly even Americans are told to go straight to IVF. It's less risky, you get less drug exposure, close to zero chance of multiples, even less chance of HOM, and it's more successful and quicker.
Can you even do selective abortions in Mexico? I know that abortion is illegal in most of Mexico. I know D.F. allows for abortions up to 12 weeks, but that is a long way away from this woman and who knows if she has the means to travel.
Anyway, because I was curious apparently there are only two recorded nonuplet births and in both cases none of the babies survived.
Turns out this lady is a different kind of crazy. She made the story up.
http://vitals.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/27/11427076-claims-of-woman-pregnant-with-9-babies-debunked?chromedomain=worldnews&lite