Posted on 05/10/2005 1:27:46 PM PDT by Wolfie
Mother of sextuplets faces loss of Medicaid-funded nurse
WYOMISSING - A Berks County woman with year-old sextuplets and 4-year-old twins will appeal for continued nursing help from Medicaid beyond a one-year cutoff.
Kate Gosselin, whose husband has a 90-minute commute to a state job in Harrisburg, said she cannot safely manage eight small children.
The sextuplets - only the second set born in Pennsylvania and among fewer than 30 sets born worldwide - arrived 8 weeks premature but are thriving as they near their first birthday Tuesday.
"I will shout from the highest mountain that these are my children and I love them and I need help," Kate Gosselin said.
While the Gosselins appreciate the volunteers who streamed through their home in the early months, the children's routines improved with the arrival of Angie Krall, a licensed practical nurse who spends 30 hours a week with the family. Medicaid provides the temporary nursing support for premature babies, Gosselin said.
"She's fine-tuned and I trust her," Kate Gosselin said of the nurse, Angie Krall. "She's as good as a parent in this home."
The family cannot afford to pay Krall on their own, she said. Jonathan Gosselin, an information technology specialist who now works in the Gov.'s Office, was unemployed for much of last year.
Kate Gosselin said she feels society has a responsibility to help with the children, since modern medicine promotes the use of fertility drugs, which can lead to multiple births.
She has talked by telephone with Bobbi McCaughey, the Carlisle, Iowa, woman who delivered the world's only set of surviving septuplets in November 1997. McCaughey named the loss of privacy and the oversight of volunteers as among her biggest difficulties, Kate Gosselin said.
On the bright side, the Gosselin babies seem to have skirted the health problems that can plague premature babies and multiples. Each now weighs between 18 and 22 pounds.
"I look at six healthy babies and I feel a lot better, because it could be a lot, lot worse," Jonathan Gosselin said.
Which begs the question; who is the stupid one; the one making irrespinsible choices and getting someone else to pay for them or the one paying for them?
I have a sister who had twins in 1989 without fertility treatment. Twins run in my father's family. He was a twin, but his twin was stillborn. One of my other sisters lost twins who were born four months premature in 1985. They lived a couple of days. She had one son later, but she never got over losing the twins, and there is some unspoken friction between her and my sister whose twins lived.
Dan and Ben are great kids. Getting to be a twin is a unique experience. You always have a built-in best friend.
I don't have any problem with subsidized adoption, especially in this case. This was a wonderful family for these kids. I was just curious about a point that was not explained during the show.
"Kate Gosselin said she feels society has a responsibility to help with the children, since modern medicine promotes the use of fertility drugs, which can lead to multiple births."
She's kidding, right? It's an individual's responsibility to inform themselves and weigh their options in these cases.
That's a good idea, but I'd be afraid of the birthmother changing her mind.
Thank you. Your post was very nice.
Yes. She stays home with the kids.
You should have thought of that before now, dear.
Kate Gosselin, 29, and her husband Jonathan Gosselin, 27
"Kate and Jonathan also have valuable support from their church and neighborhood community."
http://tinyurl.com/7oxtc
What have people done fof thousands of years?
Sextuplets To Be On Home Delivery Show
Posted on Sunday, September 5, 2004
Kate and Jonathan Gosselin returned in mid-July to their home in Wyomissing where "Home Delivery," a new NBC reality show, and members of the Gosselins' church, Calvary Bible Fellowship Church in Lower Heidelberg Township, had made floor-to-ceiling renovations.
A "Home Delivery" producer, director and camera crew waited for the couple's return. The sextuplets came home to bright lights and cameras. Jonathan Gosselin eventually concluded that the show was more concerned about ratings than the reality of caring for sextuplets. On the plus side, Kate Gosselin says her favorite part of the rennovations is the kitchen, which has new cabinets and appliances. The Gosselins were relieved to be back in their home.
Home Delivery premieres September 13th in the afternoon on NBC/WB.
sw
I'm sorry that should read a less than 1% chance of quads. Quints and more are an even smaller than <1% chance.
This sentence sounds like it is straight from the mouth of Wesley Mooch. Or Karl Marx. Or hillary clinton.
5.56mm
Thank you. That is very kind of you. Actually, my mother found this site and she was very upset by the bashing of this woman. I kinda thought that maybe a perspective from someone who is actually in this process and carrying Supertwins might help, maybe not to change minds since that is not my true intention, but to understand better what she is facing. :o)
Respectable Reproductive Endocrinologists who do an IVF procedure do not put back any more than 3 follicles. All of which or some of which MAY split. Thus, still leaving several babies!
Also, most people who are going through fertility treatment aren't just having sex at conception...many are also having iui (intrauterine insemination).
But she already had twins!! Twins now 4 years old!!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.