Octuplets: Grandmother’s first interview (Feb 9th)

February 10, 2009

I keep finding these posts in the drafts. I don’t know why they weren’t posted right away. This is the first interview the grandmother did with Radaronline. I combined the story and the video comments and the GMA video below.

Angela Suleman reveals that her daughter, Nadya, had wanted to become pregnant from early on. At 16 she got pregnant and miscarried and discovered she had blocked fallopian tubes. It is truly hard to believe that anything in this woman’s reproductive system is blocked or malfunction. 14 children in 8 years has to be a record by any means. She turned to a friend for sperm and started getting in vitro. She doesn’t exactly say when or who the sperm donor is.

ANGELA: He was in love with her and wanted to marry her. But Nadya wanted to have children on her own.

Nadya does not work and relies on her parents to care for her children. Angela says she is the primary caregiver.

ANGELA: Yes, I was practically raised her children. She really had no means to support them. They were always living in my house.

She had just found out that Nadya had received $168K in disability payments for a bad back, while she was pregnant and giving birth over and over and over..

The truth is that Nadya hasn’t worked since she started having her children, while Ed and I battled to pay her bills.

Nadya promised to help me with the bills, but she never has.

I did hear that she received money from her insurance - she never told me. But I have never seen any money. Not for house payment or feeding the kids.

We are now living in my humble 3-bedroom home. So we’re there all crowded in.

I lost a house because of it and now I’m struggling to look after her six. We had to put in bunk beds, feed them in shifts and there’s children’s clothing piled all over the house.

Only six kids and they’re already eating in shifts?

ANGELA: The older ones will sit at the table and eat, and the younger ones have their little chairs with the tables, and the autistic boy needs to be fed. So it’s a lot of work.

Why didn’t she stop her from having more babies?

ANGELA: Her dad and I were talking to the doctor and said, she’s not married, she wants children and she really does mot have any means to support them, so she really should not have any more. That’s enough.

Angela said that she and Nadya’s father, Ed, begged one doctor not to implant any more embryos in Nadya, who already had six children. But Nadya found another doctor to implant six embryos, and two split, resulting in eight more babies. “I’m really angry about that.”

The story on the doctor has changed several times. Here she says a different doctor did the octuplets. Nadya said the same one did them all. Dr. Michael Kamrava, who Nadya is seen on video with having an ultrasound with her twin pregnancy, is being investigated by the California Medical Board.

ANGELA: She has not been thinking straight. To have more is just not right.

She already has six beautiful children, why would she do this?

She really, really has no idea what she’s doing to her children, and to me.

And while the grandparents are looking after the six kids, the mother went on NBC and told Ann Curry how bad her childhood was. It didn’t make Angela very happy.

We raised her in a loving family and her father always spoiled her.

Maybe that’s the problem. Who knows. The whole situation is devastating for all involved. RadarOnline.com took pictures and video inside the home and a reporter described the interior as “filthy”, with food on the walls. (See the pix in the links below)

ANGELA: The truth is Nadya’s not capable of raising 14 children.

How she’s going to cope, I really don’t know. I’m really tired of taking care of the six children. I need her to think about what she’s going to do and how she’ll provide for all these children.

And the six kids?

They’re wonderful beautiful children, and I love them dearly. I would never let anything happen to them so I’m talking care of them. And I have been. And I don’t know what the future will bring, becausem hopefully she will get some living accommodations, because it is really a small house. And so she could take care of all her children.

And the octuplets?

She wasn’t at the octuplets’ birth because she was looking after the other six children. “But I saw the octuplets when they were two days old. They were so tiny and fragile, with bright purple skin, I was afraid to touch them but they’re all doing well. Nadya has given them all Biblical names. Seven of them are dark-haired, but one, Noah, shows my side of the family. He looked so cute with his purple skin and bright yellow hair.”

According to ABC - Nadya’s publicist was questioned about the condition of the house and he actually said it wasn’t her fault because she wasn’t there.

Nadya Suleman’s publicist Mike Furtney said that his client has been away for nearly two months, so shouldn’t be held responsible for the home’s current condition. Furtney said his client planned to move into a larger home once the octuplets were healthy enough to leave doctors’ care. He declined to comment on any of the remarks Angela Suleman made about her daughter in the interview. “Those are very personal issues between a mother and a daughter,” he said.

Hello. She is responsible for her children’s living conditions no matter where she is or they are. And how is she going to move anywhere when she has no money?

What does Angela think about the frozen embryos?

ANGELA: She justified it by saying those frozen embryos were living human beings. However, to me, anything that is frozen is not living, and she did not have to have them thawed. She could have also - if she wanted to donate them to some couples that have no children.

But to have them all is unconscionable to me.

gracefullycreated

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(1-30) Octuplets: Ethics of fertility treatment?
(1-30) Octuplets: What is really going on?
(2-9) Octuplets: Should not go home with that woman
(2-9) Octuplets: Octuplets: already filthy house unfit for children (pix)
(2-23) Octuplets: Mother vs grandmother caught on tape
(2-24) Octuplets: Cosmetic surgery, IVF, food stamps, disability, bankruptcy & foreclosure
(2-24) Octuplets: Mother before/after plastic surgery & Angelina Jolie (pix)
(2-25) Octuplets: Grandfather on Oprah daughter “not mentally complete”
(2-25) Octuplets: Hospital questioning her ability to care for children
(2-26) Octuplets: Video of inside the home
(2-26) Octuplets: Body language mother vs grandmother video (Part 1)
(2-26) Octuplets: Body language mother vs grandmother video (Part 2)
(2-27) Octuplets: Man claiming to be sperm donor
(2-27) Octuplets: Grandmother on The Early Show (Part 1)
(2-27) Octuplets: Grandmother on The Early Show (Part 2)
(2-27) Octuplets: Grandmother on The Early Show (Part 3)
(2-27) Octuplets: Grandmother’s first interview (Feb 9th)