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Wow, Four Babies! Learn More About Quadruplets. I always knew she loved me. But she didn't, openly or overtly, express, you know, affection and love. But I - I knew. I knew she did. Nadya's mother declined to speak to us on camera, but she has been quoted in an online interview saying theirs was a loving family. Ann Curry: So then how did this impact you, wishing for more affection from your mother? Nadya Suleman: Well, I just would long for siblings. My mom would rationalize, "Well, you know, I always provided with many, many friends.
It's a very different bond, siblings and friends. And I just - I wanted that huge family, just to surround me, be surrounded by. Ann Curry: How old were you when you had this idea that you wanted to have the biggest family possible? Nadya Suleman: Not necessarily the biggest family possible, but just - I didn't put a number on it really. I would always - yeah, six, seven, but that wasn't as essential as just having that - those connections, the bond I lacked.
And I personally believe that need to fill something inside that's not there, the void, the feeling of emptiness. I think everyone has that. Nadya Suleman: Uh-huh. I did get married. That was in , when she was 21 years old. But she says, she and her husband could not conceive children. Nadya Suleman: I went through about seven years of trying. And through artificial insemination.
And through medication. And all of which was unsuccessful. She says she had an ectopic pregnancy, a dangerous condition that led to the discovery of more problems. Nadya Suleman: I had so many reproductive problems from fibroids. I have also had lesions in my fallopian tubes. It turned out that my tubes were scarred. So the only option left over was IVF, a procedure where they remove your eggs, and then they take the sperm, culture it in a dish and then transfer it back.
But in vitro fertilization is very expensive, and rarely covered by insurance. At that time - the late 's - Nadya was working as a technician at a psychiatric hospital, doing basic nursing, assessing patients, administering medication.
Nadya Suleman: And I was able to work double-shifts, constantly working double-shifts, 'cause I was hoarding my money, and I was saving it and nonstop working. I was so driven, so determine, I wouldn't give up.
There's no way I would have ever allowed any obstacle, impediment to get in my way of my dream, so. Nadya Suleman: Car. My friends are like, "Are you saving for a house, a car? At a psychiatric hospital in Los Angeles, Nadya Suleman was working double shifts, working nonstop. IVF: In vitro fertilization. She hoped it would give her the one thing she wanted most in the world: a child.
But in , she suddenly had other things to worry about. Nadya suffered an injury during a disturbance at the psychiatric hospital. Nadya Suleman: There was a riot, and I was sent to go help out on the riot. Nadya Suleman: I thought there was a bomb that exploded on me. So after that, I went to the hospital, and nothing was broken.
But she did suffer a lower back injury which left her unable to work. She eventually began receiving disability payments. According to state medical records, she fell into depression, even had suicidal thoughts. Shortly thereafter, her marriage broke up. Nadya Suleman: I was looking at myself, and acknowledged that I wasn't in love at all with him. I was in love with having children. She realized she didn't want to be married, she just wanted to be a mother.
That meant finding a sperm donor. Nadya Suleman: I knew someone prior to having known my husband, platonic friend, and I asked if he would be interested in donating. And he, surprisingly, agreed to - to it. It just felt, to me, more safe, rather than going to the - you know, unfamiliarity of a sperm bank.
The same year Nadya left her husband, she had her first in vitro fertilization. She says it was difficult. But it worked the very first time. Ann Curry: When you were - became pregnant the first time, it must've meant a great deal to you. Nadya Suleman: Absolutely. It did. Because I had tried to so many years. And I - I just felt it was - you know, it was a blessing.
It was. And I kept praying. And it worked. Nadya Suleman: He was the most challenging boy. Thirteen hours of colic a day, screaming, and I would spend all my time with him, and rock him and sing to him, and realize that this is life.
This is what I really want. After injury, illness, depression, and years of ever more intense fertility treatments, Nadya Suleman was finally a mother at the age of Nadya Suleman: I wanted a big family. I would never have wanted it to be an only child. He deserved siblings. Her name is Amerah, born in June of That fall Nadya went back to college, pursuing a degree in psychology. Nadya Suleman: And at that point, the doctor's like, "You're the only one who's come back more than twice.
Each time she wanted another baby, she says, she not only went to the same doctor, she went to the same sperm donor. Nadya Suleman: And he was shocked. Isn't three enough? Nadya says she had researched the law to make sure her donor - whom she described as a friend - would not be responsible for the children - or have any claim to them.
Nadya Suleman: I talked him into it. Nadya says she and her children lived on her disability checks and student loan money. She says she paid for in vitro with money she saved while working, along with a small inheritance.
She says one of her in vitro treatments led to a second ectopic pregnancy, but she didn't give up. And the kids kept coming: Aidan in , then the twins Calyssa and Caleb in ' Ann Curry: All within a short period of time, one year after the other.
Nadya Suleman: Oh I was told, by a couple doctors, I had a timeframe, of how long I could have children. Here is the public's first glimpse at the kids today, ranging in age from 2 to 7. Nadya says her doctor told her that her reproductive system was aging prematurely. That if she wanted a bigger family, she had to hurry. But were there other motives? Ever since her octuplets made her famous, some have wondered what drives Nadya Suleman. Jeff Gardere: Was this someone who was really into having kids and it was about her children, or was it more of a selfish need for her to have a brood of children who would surround her and would give her unconditional love?
Jeff Gardere is a clinical psychologist and family therapist in New York. He has never treated Nadya, but he looked at what she told us and gave his opinion:. Jeff Gardere: There is no clinical diagnosis as to someone who wants to get pregnant or have children over and over again. I think perhaps the closest thing that we can come to is some sort of an obsession where they feel what they had is never enough and they want more. We see this - sometimes cosmetic surgeries.
Body dysmorphia. Where they just want more and more of the surgeries to feel better. Nadya Suleman: What would possess a family where's there's a husband and wife to want 12 kids or 18 kids? That's just what they feel is meaningful to them.
Their family. Expanding a family. It's an amazing thing. I do believe that children are all blessings from god. And I feel it's all positive, it's positive experience. You know, I don't like to dwell on any of the negative. And - a lot of people do. She was 31 years old. There were embryos left over from the batch that produced the twins. They were frozen. Nadya Suleman: I'm like, well, there's - there's some left. There's some left.
And, you know what, I knew in my mind that if it hadn't worked, I'm done. Doesn't work, it's not meant. And I'm gonna let go and move on. So, the last try: laugh yeah, it worked.
It worked a little too well. In the spring of , Nadya Suleman was leading what most people would call, at the very least, a challenging life. Nadya Suleman: I was receiving disability and student loans. And that's basically, what we were living on. Ann Curry: And - and do you ha - do you feel as though you're able to take care of these children?
You're feeling confident? Nadya Suleman: It felt as though I could. Yes, yes. It was a struggle. In graduate school, Nadya says she would take them to the university's daycare. They all lived in a home her mother owned. Nadya Suleman: I was very fortunate for my mom to allow us to - live in her house.
Even though I was paying her rent. You know, it wasn't necessarily as much as she probably could've got if - if strangers lived there. She adores her grandchildren. She did it for them. Ann Curry: But it - it just seems like there - there - there wasn't a lot of money -. Nadya Suleman: Already. That's why that it's - that's why people just don't accept it. The majority of people do not accept my choices. One choice in particular: to undergo more cycles of in vitro fertilization. She still had frozen embryos left over from her last treatment.
Nadya Suleman: I couldn't live with the fact that if I had never used them, I - I'll be 70 years old and regret the fact that I didn't allow these little embryos to live. Or give them an opportunity to grow. Nadya Suleman: Oh, boy. And - I believe all children are - are blessings from God.
And to allocate that rule to a doctor - to - to dispose of a life is uncomprehensible to me. Ann Curry: Did you use the same fertility specialists for all of your pregnancies?
Ann Curry: So, your fertility specialist knew that you already had six children? Ann Curry: And so, you know, when he knew that you wanted another child, a seventh child, what was his response?
Nadya Suleman: It's - it's a subject of choice. You know, he knew , we both laughed. He knew I wanted a huge family. And he's, like, "You want another one? Twins again? Then I'm done. Very professional. Nadya says her first two tries at IVF were unsuccessful. Then, in June of , just a month shy of her 33rd birthday, she tried a third time with the last embryos she had left, hoping, she says, for just one more child. That number shocked many fertility experts, which has only added to the controversy surrounding Nadya.
Mark Sauer: I personally would never do that in a year-oldin our center at Columbia that would be a major incident. Mark Sauer is a professor of reproductive endocrinology at Columbia university.
He says for a woman Nadya's age, the doctor should transfer only two or three embryos. Mark Sauer: My best guess is that there was a flagrant violation of the, you know, professional standard of how many embryos to transfer in a young woman.
The reason for that, I don't know. The California medical board says it will investigate whether the standard of care was violated in Nadya's case. Nadya Suleman: It was a miracle. It happened right away. It worked the very first time. Though Nadya claims the same doctor did all her IVF procedures, her mother disputes that. Today, we asked her to clear things up.
She says her mother is mistaken. This was just a completely different outcome. Nadya says her doctor routinely transferred about six embyros because of her troubled medical history, which she says lowered the odds that any embryos would survive.. We were struggling financially, but it was such a blessing to be able to be free from that.
Those were chains. Apparently she wants to write a book about her experiences. I hope she does and I hope it makes lots of money for Suleman and her huge family in California. Saturday, January 26th, 3pm, Temple Bar Gallery. Narcissistic personality disorder and a family separation. Vaccination strategies and return-to-office policies vary greatly from country to country.
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Remember Octomom? She and her 14 kids are doing well Are We There Yet? Natalie Suleman is a single mother to the longest ever surviving octuplets and six other kids. The struggle is real Fri, Jan 25, , Craving a big family Suleman, who grew up as an only child, which fed her craving for a big family, had been controversially implanted with 12 embryos by a fertility specialist.
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