Posted on 05/24/2015 4:45:57 AM PDT by Las Vegas Dave
A 65-year-old teacher from Berlin has given birth to quadruplets after a pregnancy that was widely criticized by medical professionals because of her age, RTL television said Saturday. Annegret Raunigk, gave birth to a girl — Neeta — and three boys — Dries, Bence and Fjonn — by cesarean section at a Berlin hospital Tuesday, RTL said. The newborns weighed between 655 grams (1 lb., 7 ounces) and 960 grams (2 lbs., 2 ounces) each. A spokeswoman for RTL said the babies stood a strong chance of survival but possible complications couldn't yet be ruled out, because they were born in the 26th week of pregnancy. Their mother was doing well, the spokeswoman said.
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WOW!! (Pinging the list as a FYI!)
“Raunigk traveled abroad to have donated, fertilized eggs implanted — a procedure that is illegal in Germany.”
So the endometrium still functions after menopause. Didn’t
know that.
Didn’t need to know that——LOL!
If these babies survive, imagine what life will be like with a mother old enough to be their great grandmother……….
Didn’t need to know that——LOL!
If these babies survive, imagine what life will be like with a mother old enough to be their great grandmother……….
Congratulations, you got children YOUNGER than your grandchildren. How are you going to explain that to your kids?
“If these babies survive, imagine what life will be like with a mother old enough to be their great grandmother”
The kids will be fine... Good bless them.
I understand what you are saying but hear me out. She has 13 kids from ages 9 to 44 via five fathers. It doesn’t sound like a Father is in the picture now. Using your logic, would a homosexual couple using already fertilized eggs to complete a pregnancy also be a “brave choice?”. I’m not trying to bait you.. I just think it is a good question. Personally, the article doesn’t mention that the eggs would have been disposed of... I wonder if the eggs can be kept for many, many years?
OW!
I don’t criticize her for having the children. I do, however, question her motives. Taking a trip abroad for the procedure that is illegal in her home country and going through all that trouble just for wanting to give her young daughter a sibling? I think not.
First place I’d look is how are her finances? Does Germany give new mothers with several children monetary assistance, etc.
There was the very famous case of Octomom here. “She liked babies” What she liked was all the extra per-child welfare.
A perfectly legitimate question. Eggs can be frozen for a long time and often are, until ultimately being disposed of. I’d rather the children be born than thinking their death is OK as they otherwise might have had bad parents, homosexual parents, poor parents, 1 parent, etc. There is no situation bad enough to justify abortion which ultimately is no different than throwing away the embryos.
It is important to distinguish between frozen eggs and frozen embryos.
I see absolutely no moral dimension to freezing, conserving, and/or disposing of frozen eggs.
Regards,
So this woman uses children? How special. Did she have them naturally or thru c section? Where is the father? Oh...guess one is not needed. This is very sad.
They have 13 siblings.
I believe they will always have family to care for them
WOW indeed! Prayers up for them!
she went to Ukraine where anything goes, and used donated fertilized eggs
nothing was stated about them being frozen vs “made to order”
The endometrium often doesn’t function for women before menopause, in terms of developing a nice good layer to sustain implantation. It’s one of the many fertility problems women have these days. Our sexual reproduction (including the brain-hormonal parts) is dying slowly, possibly from all the plastics and things in our environment. I don’t know the cause but it is. There are many women in their early thirties with premature ovarian failure.
Anyway, it is simple to give estrogen injections and plump up any woman’s uterine lining to the necessary 9mm for implantation and carrying a baby. Pregnancy brings its own hormones, at least for sure it will post first trimester.
I believe you mean embryos. These days, eggs and sperm, and indeed embryos as well, can be frozen indefinitely. Come over to my house and see my three year old racing on her scooter like a formula one driver. She was in the freezer for four years. We adopted her as it were from donated embryos. Tell your friends struggling with the heartbreak of infertility that parenthood is easily possible: beautiful little souls await in unneeded embryos already out there.
And whoever put 4 embryos into a 65 year old woman was a very bad doctor. Definitely not thinking of the safety of the embryos. Four embryos??? Why ever more than two??
Yes, in some of these east bloc countries, embryos are created using donated sperm and eggs and put into patients. We much preferred to give life to someone already potentially waiting for the chance. (Remember that only half of human embryos, OR LESS, are viable, so embryos are not people — they are potential people — for without chromosomal testing you can’t know whether they are aneuploid and thus could never become a baby. And as of today it is too risky to test frozen embryos)
Our sexual reproduction (including the brain-hormonal parts) is dying slowly, possibly from all the plastics and things in our environment. I don’t know the cause but it is.
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