Posted on 09/25/2005 9:24:02 AM PDT by knuthom
Last spring, when her obstetrician suggested an ultrasound test to see if she was carrying more than one baby, Jennell Dickens prayed that she wasn't carrying twins. When an ultrasound technician examined her belly, counting two, three and four heartbeats, she steeled herself for quadruplets.
That was before a radiologist entered the room and found another heartbeat. Dickens cried for two months.
Yesterday, she was the picture of composure, smiling and laughing at the University of Maryland Medical Center just two days after delivering four girls and a boy 10 weeks early. They weighed a combined 11 pounds, 14 ounces.
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Dickens, who lives in a one-bedroom apartment, said she delayed searching for a more spacious place because she wasn't sure how many new roommates she would be bringing home. She said her sister, mother and friends are mobilizing to help her cope with what lies ahead, but she conceded that her life will get much busier once she leaves the hospital, which could happen as early as today.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
There is no mention of the babies' father anywhere.
She's a brave woman, raising five kids alone. She could have aborted them, but didn't; good luck to her and her family.
I can't access the rest of the article. How did she become pregnant with quintuplets? Was she taking a fertility drug?
I'd assume that she wasn't, as she's unmarried and living in a one bedroom apartment, but you never know...
What family? I know I'm going out on a limb but I suspect her mother and sisters are all the family she's going to have and the responsibility for raising these five chilfren will be a shared duty with the Gov't heavily involved. Hope I'm wrong but the statistics say I'm probably/sadly right.
She did not get pregnant by "accident". She was told that she was taking drugs that would "enhance her fertility".
...she had begun taking hormones to correct a medical problem. Doctors cautioned that the medication would enhance her fertility, though she didn't imagine how quickly.
"I took it one time, and this is what I got," she said, explaining that she became pregnant within a week of completing her first four-day course.
I'm no Don Juan but I think it takes something else besides the drugs.
Thanks for the info. I read the rest of the article.
Yep... Dad is not in the picture.
Mothers, sisters, and children all qualify as family. The government will almost certainly be supporting them, but at least she didn't opt to have them scraped from her womb...
Why on earth are we giving an [apparently] unmarried woman fertility drugs!!! Why is the gov't using our tax dollars to foster an underclass? AARGH!
Because come election day, that underclass votes for them by a 50:1 margin.
...she had begun taking hormones to correct a medical problem. Doctors cautioned that the medication would enhance her fertility, though she didn't imagine how quickly.
"I took it one time, and this is what I got," she said, explaining that she became pregnant within a week of completing her first four-day course.
I guess the reply was, "Okay."
Agree with that but, after all, the decision to have sex and the consequences of the ensuing offspring are, first and foremost, her individual responsibility and I would hope these children are born into an intact, financially and emotionally responsible family setting. Unfortunately, given the stats I doubt any of these attributes are present and that this is yet another case of an individual making life choices that they expect others to make good on.
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