Reply #320: I have to disagree with you

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It is one thing to choose to carry multiple, naturally fertilized fetuses to term. Even then, it is a dangerous choice for nine people: nine = mother + 8 human beings. There is the statistical guarantee those eight babies will be born premature. The human female womb cannot handle 8. It just can't. Premature birth is serious damned shit. I don't know how much these babies weigh but when my one and only child was born nine weeks early, she weighed 1LB 12OZ. She was the luckiest preemie in that she got out of it with very mild cerebral palsy.

This woman chose to have eight premature babies.

As someone who lived through day after night of surgeries, central lines, infections, guilt, A&Bs, that one time I accidentally knocked out her catheter... Then came the post neo-natal experience where she almost died from some epiglottis thing and developed a murmur in her heart because of an infection she caught from one of her surgeries. Then three years later, her foot wouldn't flatten out. That's when I found out she had CP.

I'm not against this woman's choice. I just don't understand it. My child was born 21 years ago and the good taxpayers of this country paid for every moment she spent in the NICU. 187,000 dollars. Those numbers sound heartless but in my mind, deliberately forcing eight human beings to be born premature is senseless and cruel.