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They don't seem to know if fertility treatments were used, but when women come off hormonal birth control there, they are often given treatments to shorten the wait to becoming pregnant per the linked article:
What would I do, I would have the same attitude as the father in the article:
"God gave us these children. He is the one to decide what will happen to them. I'm not worried about that. When the almighty does something, he knows why," he told BBC Afrique.
That was always my attitude when I was pregnant, that I could deal with whatever the results were as far as the child. Nine is a lot though!
There actually was a case of a woman in Australia giving birth to nine, many years ago. They all died within a week. I do not remember there being a lot of fertility treatments at the time, but I could be wrong. https://www.nytimes.com/1971/06/13/a...hem-alive.html
These days, here, there would be medical pressure to reduce the number.
Because the article referenced was not linked I searched for news about this. For those that wondered, as did I, the babies were not in the hospital for 18 months. The mother was sent to Morocco for medical care there. They just returned home to Mali now. They originally thought it was "just" seven babies.
Their government paid for the babies' medical care & for lodging for them and their parents? Amazing. In the USA, the parents would have been bankrupted, unless they landed a reality TV show.
This as early as possible to give the remaining embryos the best chance at survival and a normal life.
The fertility doctor should not have implanted so many zygotes. Even if some of them split afterwards, they must have implanted 4+, which is dangerous to the mother and potential children. It is not possible this was a natural occurrence.
Twins are already high risk. I would not go forward with a pregnancy of more than two. The torment of bringing a baby to term only to have them suffer and die with a more/fully-developed nervous system--or to die from some malformation after they became aware of themselves as a person? That's awful enough when it happens naturally. I couldn't deal with the guilt of knowing that I could have prevented that.
You can blinker yourself by saying "oh it's up to God which of them survive" but it actually stopped being up to God when you stepped foot in the fertility clinic. Now it's all on you.
I'm glad all 9 survived and are healthy. That's a miracle.
The fertility doctor should not have implanted so many zygotes. Even if some of them split afterwards, they must have implanted 4+, which is dangerous to the mother and potential children. It is not possible this was a natural occurrence.
It is very, very rare, but it is possible. Currently available info about the Mali nonuplets is that they were not conceived using fertility treatments.
And there is at least one prior instance known of naturally conceived nonuplets, although none of those babies survived.
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