Posted on 06/28/2013 4:48:18 PM PDT by Morgana
I always hoped for twins when I got preg. Which was every year it seemed....6 children in 7 1/2 years....After my first one, the doctor told me I shouldn’t have any more. There was a blood incompability with blood types. Was told a second one might not survive....he’s in his 50’s now and had 3 more after than. My sixth child did die 10 hours after birth with multiple birth defects....My daughter, the last one keeps telling me thanks mom...5 children and 13 grandchilden. Wouldn’t change things for anything, but if there is such a thing as reincarnation, I will be coming back sterile...;o)
Wouldn’t you like to just tell this stupid spoiled witch to her face that she’s a stupid, spoiled witch? And then slap her to make sure she gets the point?
Very succinct! The version I heard was "If you want to hear G-d laugh, tell Him your plans for the future."
Implantation rate is perhaps 25%. So if they had 4 embryos introduced into the womb, then the expected number of implanted embryos would be 1, but the statistics would be
a 1x(1/4)^4 x (3/4)^0 =0.004 chance of 4 embryos implanting or
a 4 x(1/4)^3 x (3/4)^1 = 0.0469 chance of 3 embryos implanting or
a 6 x(1/4)^2 x (3/4)^2 = 0.422 chance of 2 embryos implanting or
a 4 x(1/4)^1 x (3/4)^3 = 0.422 chance of 1 implanting or
a 1 x(1/4)^0 x (3/4)^4 = 0.100 chance of zero embryos implanting
Rounded to three significant digits. This suggests they had an equal chance of one or two children, (both about 42%) with a 5% chance for 3 and less than 1% chance of 4.
I remember this story, hated it then and hate it even more now.
I prayed for twins because they run in my family but alas was only blessed with single babies!!
I seem to recall back in the 90’s reading articles about couples who I thought were “yuppies”. These couples celebrated the fact they were “childfree” instead of “childless”. Basically both worked at nice jobs, vacationed at nice spas, and spent all their money on themselves. Which from I read in the article is how they wanted it. The couples in that article were not as stuck up as the Garlands’ in that at least they pre-planned what they wanted and did not get pregnant then complain about it.
When having babies was the natural outcome of marriage, you just got on with it, did the work, loved your babies. Now everything is supposed to be under control.
One thing that’s interesting is that we have to assume these people believed that readers would sympathize with their “problem.” It appears that’s not the case, though, even at the site where they wrote.
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