Should Nadya Suleman’s Octuplets Not Be Released To Her?

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There is a growing call to have Nadya Suleman’s premature octuplets be put in a foster home with a loving family with better resources to take care of the octuplets likely hefty health care needs.

Dr. Phil McGraw quoted in the LA Times saying, “What she is telling me is that unless and until she has a better living arrangement, that they are not likely to release the children to her.” Faced with an impending foreclosure of her mother’s three bedroom home where her other six children live, can she handle eight premature babies while taking food stamps and disability payments? While I think the octuplets should be with her, I know others will disagree. What do you think?

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Lorraine Trumpler | 06 March 2009, 04:00
I am of the opinion that the babies should be released to her- but ONLY when they reach normal birthweight and are no longer considered “preemies” needing special care. This can happen within the next 1-2 months, if all goes well.

“OctoMom” has the ideal set-up with Kaiser assisting with the octuplets’care right now (in a very nurturing environment).

It appears inevitable that at some future point they may need to be “split up” (as a family).

Exactly what should be done is something that will evolve over time, it can’t happen overnight because determining what the babies’ needs are can be done only after they are observed over a period of time, and how it works out to be raised in the home environment.