Posted on 04/14/2005 2:29:36 AM PDT by ovrtaxt
PHOENIX - A woman who agreed to be a surrogate mother for a childless couple is pregnant with quintuplets, all boys, and she's decided not to accept any money because of the expense the parents are facing.
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Teresa Anderson, who has four children of her own, expected that being a surrogate for Luisa Gonzalez and her husband, Enrique Moreno, would be equally simple.
"But it's really five times the swelling, five times the mood swings," she told The Arizona Republic. "It's very different. You're a lot weaker and more vulnerable to the symptoms (of pregnancy). My uterus is huge, just huge."
She is in the 31st week of her pregnancy.
"Basically at this point everything is uncomfortable. They are just very heavy," she said Wednesday on NBC's "Today." "My back is strained. It's hard to walk. It's hard to bend down, bend over because you always have to do that. Breathing is even a problem at this point."
Five embryos were implanted to increase the chance that one would result in a successful pregnancy, she and her obstetrician, Dr. John Elliott, said on "Today" and on ABC's "Good Morning America."
Doctors hope she can carry the fetuses 34 weeks before they are delivered by Caesarean section.
One fetus has a heart defect that will require immediate surgery, but other than that, "they're doing actually incredibly well," Elliott told the Republic. He said he had not found another instance of a surrogate mother carrying quintuplets.
Anderson, 25, and her husband, Gerard, initially thought they could earn $15,000 for carrying what they thought would be one child, but they've decided not to take any money.
"It was pretty easy decision, considering everything involved and how many children that they're going to be responsible for now," Anderson said on "Good Morning America."
Wow... umm... 34 weeks, and no pay.
I'm impressed at her generosity, humanity, and well... just generally impressed.
"I want me a baby, H.I.!"
ED sits anxiously waiting in the driver's seat, peering
intently through the windshield. As she catches sight of
something she breaks into a broad smile, unlocks the door,
and slides over to the passenger seat.
Hi is opening the door with one hand, cradling a baby in
the other.
ED: Which one ya get?
As he gets into the driver's seat:
HI: I dunno. Nathan Jr., I think.
ED: Gimme here.
He hands her the infant, then hands her the copy of Dr.
Spock's Baby and Child Care.
HI: Here's the instructions.
ED: Oh, he's beautiful!
Hi nods as he pulls away from the curb.
HI: He's awful damn good. I think I got the best one.
ED is gushing and kissing the baby through the rest of the
conversation.
ED: I bet they were all beautiful. AU babies are
beautiful!
HI: Yeah. This one's awful damn good though.
ED: Don't you cuss around him.
HI: He's fine, he is. I think it's Nathan Jr.
ED: We are doin' the right thing, aren't we Hi?-l
mean, they had more'n they could handle.
HI: Well now honey we been over this and over this.
There's what's right and there's what's right, and never
the twain shall meet.
ED: But you don't think his momma'll be upset? I mean
overly?
HI: Well a course she'll be upset, sugar, but she'll get
over it. She's got four little babies almost as good as this
one. It's like when I was robbin' convenience stores-
ED suddenly bursts out crying.
ED: I love him so much!
HI: I know you do, honey.
ED (still sobbing): I love him so much!
This is on my short list for one of the funniest movies ever!
Gale: Alright you hayseeds it's a stickup! Everybody freeze. Everybody down on the ground.
(Long pause)
Hayseed: Well, which is it Young Feller? You want I should freeze or get down on the ground? I mean to say, if'n I freeze I can't rightly drop. And if'n I drop, I'm gonna be in motion. Y'see...
Gale: Shut up!
Hayseed: Ok then.
Hi: My name is H.I. McDonough. Call me "Hi." The first time I met Ed was in the county lockup in Tempe, Arizona.
off-camera voice: Don't forget his profile, Ed.
Ed: Turn to the right.
Hi: A day I'll never forget.
Ed: Turn to the right.
Hi: What kinda name is "Ed" for a pretty thing like you?
Ed: Short for Edwina. Turn to the right.
Hi: You're a flower, you are. Just a little desert flower. Lemme know how those come out.
It's my favorite comedy, hands down. The chase scene with the dogs in the grocery store is the best!
What this shows to anyone who will think about it is that an embryo/fetus/baby is never a part of a woman's body, it merely lives inside her body (along with millions of micro-organisms). Provided with nourishment and shelter, a normal embryo will develop into what even liberals recognize as a baby. With current technology, a woman's womb is still the best place for this to happen.
yep- when some feminist broad starts going on about her rights and her body, I simply tell her that she can indeed do what she wants with her body. But what about the other person's body inside of her?
That usually launches her into a conniption...
lol-- the 'don't steal my bandwidth' people got you!
It appears they did indeed!
What movie was the scene from?
Undoubtedly true........just not something you hear everyday from a woman.
They have edited out the Mondale sticker on the getaway car's bumper but it was there during the early days of the flick. (Cracked me up!)
1. Are Moreno and Gonzalez husband and wife or just common-law marriage (i.e. boyfriend-girlfriend)?
2. Is he able to support children, or do we have more additions to the welfare roles?
3. Finally, are they US citizens or illegals?
You got some chairs, you got a dinnette set. You ain't got chairs, you ain't got dick.
Raising Arizona
Saw the news the boys have been born. Amazing, another person carries 5 children into the world for someone else, at one time. And, neither couple wanted to destroy some of those "embryos" early on. Amazing.
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