(4-21) Updated list of octuplet posts
April 27, 2009
Here's Nadya's in home interview with GMA's Chris Cuomo from Friday. It's not substantive. Nadya isn't overwhelmed, the kids are fine, it was a miracle, she has some advice, she's making do with "little opportunities", she's writing a book and plans on going back to school to get her Masters. She still does not get it. The nannies cook, clean and do the laundry.
ABC Video doesn't embed here. Not the entire conversation. Cuomo is obviously not a fan of Nadya's but he didn't prob her financial situation or who is paying for the hospital bill. How much money can a parent make in California and still stay on Medi-Cal?
CHRIS CUOMO:
Are you going through a little bit of that, "Yes, my children are a blessing. But boy, am I in over my head"?
NADYA:
I know I'm going to sound kind of crazy to say this, but no I'm just - every day I'm taking it as it comes. And it`s actually a lot less stressful than I envisioned it to be. Because I'm just focusing on - what takes precedence over anything else is just how healthy they are. They're really, really good babies. They're growing and getting so big and healthy. That's all I focus on.
And the [older] kids are transitioning really well with the babies coming home.
CUOMO:
Any cautionary advice for "people" contemplating the same kind of decision?
NADYA:
Do your research. Do it extensively. Find out everything there is especially in regard to your own personal history because you definitely want to be aware of all the possible side effects or consequences of [laughs] your actions.
Somehow I don't think her eldest daughter thinks the eight consequences are funny.
CUOMO:
Do you feel you need to take responsibility for having so many children?
NADYA:
Oh, yeah. Of course. I never anticipated more than one growing And had I not had extra frozen, I never would have had more than six. I was praying for one more. If one hadn't come, I'd be happy with six.
Notice how when she talks about them they are inanimate - a collection of things. She then gives a tour of the nursery and as she's pointing out the babies says Jonah and Josiah are "identical" so that must be one of the sets. Supposedly 6 were implanted and two embryos split into twins. Jeremiah and Makai may be the other ones.
NADYA:
It's hard to tell between Jonah and Josiah. [the smallest ones #7 & 8 to come home] I can tell by the cleft. That's the only difference.
CUOMO:
With all those other kids you can really keep their names straight that easily?
NADYA:
Yes. Mothers could. I'm not any different than any other mother. [recurring theme] I'm sure all mothers can basically be able to tell the difference between their kids no matter if there's like two or 22.
They're all really big. They don't have any complications yet.
CUOMO: What are you dealing with in terms of volume?
NADYA:
I try not to focus on what's not too important. You just have to do it. I don't really reflect on that kind of stuff. I reflect on what takes priority and that's how healthy they are. I'm just enjoying every moment of the kids and the older kids as well. So I don't really fixate on those kind of things. It's not necessary - extraneous details. You have to take care of it and you don't complain about it. [laughs]
CUOMO:
What's not going to be extraneous for you is paying for this going forward. You know you've gotten a lot of heat for that. Having all these kids and not really having the means to do it. How are you going to handle that?
NADYA:
I'm going to try to secure little opportunities here and there to provide for my kids any way I can that I feel will benefit them.
I'm actually going back to school in the fall to finish my masters. And I'm actually really excited about writing a book. I'm in the process of doing that. So I'm excited about that. That was always a dream of mine before any of this happened - before this miracle happened.
She said in her radaronline video with the grandmother that she had planned on writing a book about raising a child with autism. She talks about her son with autism in her recent radaronline video.
Her comments on the interview to Octorazzi:
I don't watch TV. I don't watch anything that I'm on. I was on Good Morning America I never saw it. I didn't see it, how was that?
When asked to talk about GMA anchor Chris Cuomo's questions:One thing that I will mention I noticed that everyone tends to have a pattern of always focusing or actually being fixated on the negative and I just have to directed back to positive because that what's it's supposed to be, isn't it?
Her answers are never concrete.
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