April 27, 2008
I don’t know what happened to alot of these early posts. This is one of the original interviews the grandmother 6 days after the birth of the octuplets. She had been taking care of the six children while Nadya was in the hospital and had had enough. She of course was not happy when Nadya was implanted again because she already had been unable to care for the six she already had. The grandmother said she supported the kids 100% financially. Nadya didn’t inform her mother she was pregnant - it eventually got hard to hide “like the other times”.
JAN 31st
AP’s RAQUEL MARIA DILLON: selected bits of article. Added emphasis and up-to-date info.
The woman who gave birth to octuplets this week conceived all 14 of her children through in vitro fertilization, is not married and has been obsessed with having children since she was a teenager, her mother said.
Angela Suleman told The Associated Press [via phone] she was not supportive when her daughter, Nadya Suleman, decided to have more embryos implanted last year.
ANGELA: It can’t go on any longer. She’s got six children and no husband. I was brought up the traditional way. I firmly believe in marriage. But she didn’t want to get married.
She said she warned her daughter that when she gets home from the hospital:
ANGELA I’m going to be gone.
She screamed this in one of the videos - very scary - Nadya fled the house with some of the older kids even though she had just brought 2 more octuplets home. See update link
Angela Suleman said her daughter always had trouble conceiving and underwent in vitro fertilization treatments because her fallopian tubes are “plugged up.”
Nadya told the sperm donor who came forward that she had ovarian cancer. She said he was absolutely not the father. He wanted a DNA test, she said fine. Don’t know if it was done. Cuomo did that interview and I thought he might follow up on it. He didn’t. See update link for recent GMA interview and interview with sperm donor [see updates]. She also told the grandmother that she had a tumor and that’s why she looked pregnant. That’s pathological, especially when she already had six children and had said the same before. [Grandmother body language interview]
There were frozen embryos left over after her previous pregnancies and her daughter didn’t want them destroyed, so she decided to have more children.
Nadya admitted in that same interview - she wasn’t aware of it - that she was going to have ever last embryo implanted form the start - no matter how many children resulted.
Her mother and doctors have said the woman was told she had the option to abort some of the embryos and, later, the fetuses. She refused. Her mother said she does not believe her daughter will have any more children.
ANGELA: She doesn’t have any more (frozen embryos), so it’s over now. It has to be.
Again in that same interview Nadya was not definitive when she was questioned as to if 14 was enough. Look at the madness in her eyes when she talks about it. It’s creepy. Nadya also said she wasn’t aware of embryo donation/adoption. When you listen to them talk about it you can see they never really had a discussion of options.
Nadya Suleman wanted to have children since she was a teenager, “but luckily she couldn’t,” her mother said.
ANGELA: Instead of becoming a kindergarten teacher or something, she started having them, but not the normal way.
This is the interesting part. The grandmother had actually consulted a psychologist who told her to throw her out of the house. She didn’t and because of that Nadya had a place to live and food on the table. The grandparents are just as dysfunctional. After all this the grandfather went on Oprah and said his daughter was “not mentally complete” and could Oprah get her a psychiatric evaluation. The look on Oprah’s face is priceless. Nadya is obsessed with Oprah and was incensed that her father got to go and not her.
Her daughter’s obsession with children caused Angela Suleman considerable stress, so she sought help from a psychologist, who told her to order her daughter out of the house.
ANGELA: Maybe she wouldn’t have had so many kids then, but she is a grown woman. I feel responsible, and I didn’t want to throw her out
14 kids too late.
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