The Gosslins are on the cover....they have twins and sextuplets...
When she found out she was carrying 6, she was in shock, and her husband crumbled to his knees in the doctor's office, the news was so daunting.
But when the doctor said...'Come to my office and we'll talk selective reduction'....
..TO HER CREDIT, she gripped the edge of the table and pulled herself up...
..and said...NO, WE WILL NEVER HAVE THAT CONVERSATION!!!!!
God bless her...she has 8 healthy children.
Wow! Her quiver sure is full! God Bless Her for telling him NO!! SELECTIVE REDUCTION? What is that, a new method of birth control!? God help us!
She’s lucky, but it’s a good idea to “have that conversation” (preferably with more than one specialist, to get different opinions) when dealing with a multiple pregnancy as high as 6. Lots of factors, including the mother’s size and other health issues, influence the outlook for high order multiples. For some women, e.g. w/small pelvis, diabetes, and high blood pressure, the chance of getting ANY surviving babies is higher with selective reduction than with trying to carry 6 to term.
Chorionicity and amnionicity (how many placentas and amnionic sacs are shared) is also a huge factor. It’s never a question of just deciding whether or not to randomly pick X number of fetuses to terminate. The specifics of the placentation and amnionic sacs, and the presence of any interfetal transfusion syndrome between fetuses sharing a placenta, dictates what the options are. If a woman has fetuses sharing a placenta and suffering significant twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, one of those fetuses is already doomed, and deciding to allow it to continue developing until it dies, leaving a very large dead fetus in there with the others (and connected to the circulatory system of one of the others) is pretty much a decision to kill all the others who were not doomed from the start. Sometimes reduction really is the “pro-life” option.
What a blessing both parents and children will be to one another.
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