Where are the new children going to go? and will they receive the love and attention they need?

Really the less serious issue is what makes me happy. The fact that she is now getting too much attention and getting annoid is making me smile. I dont mean to sound evil about it but she is totally getting what she asked for.

BTW… go Octuplet Grandma!

Browsing the place I came across a question that I have pondered to myself. Would you rather have twins than a single birth? If so, a boy and a girl, boy and boy or girl and girl?

Personally, I would not mind one bit if I had twins. You get two birds with one labor stone plus you only have to go through months of no sleep once instead of twice. Unless of course you choose to have another child. In that case I would only want a single birth. Three is my baby threshold!

What do you think? Would you like to have twins?

What is your baby threshold?

• Attention. Says Risa, a 35-year-old Upper East Side mom who said she had her twins naturally: “If I am ever depressed, I put my boys in the stroller and take a walk down the street and people just go nuts.”
• You can turn them into revenue-generating TV stars. Risa, whose sons were cast in the soap opera Guiding Light: “”Because of the labor laws, children can only work a certain number of hours, so identical twins are in such high demand.”
• It means you’re rich. Brinton Taylor Parson, counselor at a prep school for prep schools: “There is an inordinate number of moms in Manhattan who view their children as an accessory.”
• They can stop being mommies sooner. Said “a Gramercy Park mom:” “While my friends are bracing themselves for baby number two and all the sleep deprivation and chaos that comes with it, we are planning a family trip to Hawaii.”

Read the full article at Gawker: Why New York Moms Lust for Twins

If you haven’t done so, hop on over and read my previous post Should women be delivering litters of babies?

Now that you know my opinion and have read the original article check out what momlogic.com has to say from a professional OBGYN standpoint and then full out neighborhood gossip style.

Also while you are there. Make sure to watch the video on the octuplet dad… your not going to believe what the family vehicle is.

Yet what baffles me is when I see an article like this one “California Woman Give Birth to Octuplets”   and I see a picture of more than 16 children from the ages of 18 months to twenty years sitting by her bedside.

I do not doubt that woman has plenty of love in heart to give but how on earth are these children getting the quality one on one time with their parents? Why did this woman feel she had to take unnatural means to accumulate 8 more children to her already litter of babies?

I just dont understand!

I would however understand if she had no children…. or a farm to tend!

“In one day alone, the quintuplets go through 40 diapers and several bottles of formula. The biggest, Nyandeng, is now 6 pounds 5 ounces, and the smallest, Athei, is 4 pounds 7 ounces.”

Amazing how all these little ones made it into this world so healthy. Mom is very happy!

Read about their life, similarities and differences here.

Read all these cool twin facts here

Michael and Michelle

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Brian and Brianna 

Eric and Ericka

Riley and Kylie

Leukemia Research made headlines in January last year when a study on identical twins confirmed for the first time the existence of stem cells in childhood leukemia. Now, nearly a year on, new data has emerged shedding more light on how leukemia, the most common form of cancer in children, develops from birth.
The original study led by Professors Mel Greaves and Tariq Enver at University of Oxford compared the blood cells of identical twins Oilvia, who has leukemia and Isabella, who does not. They found that both twins have the same genetically abnormal primitive cells in their blood, which were shown to have developed during pregnancy, supporting claims that childhood cancer starts in the womb.

With more funding from Leukemia Research the scientists set out to identify the genetic events that must be set in motion to convert these pre-leukemic stem cells into full-blown leukemia in some children.

Dr Caroline Bateman, a clinical scientist working with Professor Mel Greaves, looked at the blood cells of five more pairs of identical twins where one of the children has developed leukemia. Although it was presumed by many scientists that there would be a common genetic pathway to explain how leukemia develops in some children, this study has revealed that there is no pattern in the way the pre-leukemic stem cells behave within individuals.

These findings, which were previously unconfirmed and unsuspected, were announced at the 50th Anniversary Meeting of the American Society of Hematology in San Francisco, 6-9 December 2008. The study was selected from over 6,000 applications to be presented at this prestigious event.

(Source: 50th Anniversary Meeting of the American Society of Haematology: Leukaemia Research UK: January 2008)