I don't have enough fodder for one of my usual long ramblings, so it's Fast Eddie Friday once again. Hang on , here we go, fast and loose.
Turns out the woman who just had 8 babies in California already has 6 kids. She is also fairly young, and from the tone of the news pieces I'm reading, it appears there is no baby daddy in the picture. She lives with her parents. We already know she was taking fertility drugs. So what it seems we have is a young lady who thinks her womb is the proverbial clown car. Of course she is being cheered for not doing selective culling and aborting some of embryo. I'm looking at pics of the family's home which doesn't reek of money, or at least the estimated 2 million bucks it's going to take to raise these 6 pups. The grandfather is an Iraqi, who is about to go back to Iraq and do some contract work to support the kids. Not surprisingly, I'm not one of the cheerleaders for miss Lotta Room in da Womb. Rather than applaud her for not aborting some of the fetus, I wonder why 6 kids she can't raise on her own weren't enough. I'm sure residents of California will be none to pleased once they realize who is going to foot the bill for the 14 kids this single mom who lives with her parents has brought in to the world.
"But I will acknowledge that I would have concerns if I was the friends and family of this young girl. " The Money Line O the Week goes to Drew ( where's my shovel" Peterson. Concerns, really, I can't imagine why anyone would be concerned since Drew's last two wives are as dead as doorknobs. Then again his Fiancee knows all about Drew, so she won't garner any concern or sympathy from me. If she ends up getting planted in the woods too bad. She has the same mindset as the crazy people in China who keep getting mauled after trying to hug a Panda at the zoo, because they look so cute. Yes Drew Peterson does look like the Cowardly lion guy from the wizard of Oz, but that doesn't mean he won't run his new bride through a limb chipper if she burns supper. On a bright note, at least this woman's chances of reproducing are slim since she probably wont be around long. That may seem a little harsh, then again if you try to hug a Panda, you deserve to get your face eaten.
Kelly Roman has brought the wrath of breast feeding moms down upon Facebook. Apparently Facebook deemed her breast feeding photos as obscene and removed them from her page. Women's rights groups are all up in Facebooks face over the conundrum. The photo below is of Kelly's 22 month old daughter knocking back a couple of jugs at Kelly's Tavern. I'm not doctor Spock, so please feel free to set me straight, but there is something unsettling about a kid that size and age nipping at the jug. Let me just say that breast feeding is not obscene, and breasts also known under the more technical term, Milk Cannons, are not obscene. I'm a huge fan of the breast, Im all for breast feeding. That said, I don't think I would want someone I cared about posting such a private moment on the Internet. Consider the fact that the Internet is Creepy Creeperman central. Come on Kelly, pun intended, do you really want a bunch of creepy guys tuggin one off to pictures of you breast feeding your 22 month old child?
I've seen women pull a fun bag, another medical term, out in public so the little one could sup. Yes it's perfectly natural to breast feed, it's a good thing, nothing to be ashamed of. Urination is also healthy and natural, if I whipped Mr. Happy out at the mall and started pissing in a flower pot, I'm pretty sure it would be a major Fuax Pas. Same goes for Facebook. My point is, calling it natural is one thing, exposing random strangers to it is none to classy, and sorry mommy but it could be deemed offensive by some, not me I'm all for public breasticles, I'm just sayin. Now somebody set me straight, is 22 months a tad old to be breast feeding?
Have a safe weekend, and don't forget; Milk does a body good.
anything natural looks idiotic when it becomes a cause.
ReplyDeleteSomething doesn't ring true about the 14 kid story. I wonder if grandpa and daddy are one in the same for some of those kids. She was already pregnant when she first went to Kaiser so they didn't perform the fertilization. And, she's quite young...like what does that mean? I know, I know, I'm a skeptic.
ReplyDeleteI have to agree that something sounds very wrong about the 14 child story.
ReplyDeleteThe woman lives with her parents without any known husband or baby daddy in the picture. She already has 6 children. She took fertility drugs. She's now given birth to 8 more children. Why did she have more children after the initial 6? Is she mentally stable? Is she being raped by her father? Something just doesn't sound right here. That combined with the secrecy shrouding the woman and her family makes me think something criminal may be afoot.
Props for comparing the vagina to a clown car - I often have that thought when I watch "The Creepy Duggar Family Show" (aka, 43 Kids and Counting). When there are SO many unwanted kids in foster care or up for adoption that these people could take into their homes, it kind of makes me sick when they start popping out litters of their own children just so they have a flock of little clones.
ReplyDeleteAs for the breast feeding thing...I'm not a mother, but I think that 22 months is WAAAAAY past the line of "okay mother-child interaction" and straight into "gonna give the kid mommy issues forever" teritory. I understand that children need to eat and when they're still on the breast, you've got to do what you've got to do...but can't you throw a blanket over your exposed boob and the kids head when you're sitting in the middle of the mall food court with a flock of teenage boys staring?? Facebook is the internet equivilent of a mall food court...you might as well pass out bottles of lotion to all of the pervy little boys while you're at it.
Facebook must be lactose intolerant.
ReplyDeletewhat abunch of boobs.
New update in the news. The woman's family declared bankruptcy and abandoned a home last year.
ReplyDeleteOh, and she conceived through IVF. No word yet on how a bankrupt person can afford that procedure.
Yeah, she had the embrios implanted, so those of you who thought she just took some drugs and then did it with her dad (ew!) you can go ahead and feel better now.
ReplyDeleteI worry more about the ethics of a doctor who would be willing to perform IVF on a single mom who already has 6 children and lives at home with her parents, personally. Fuck the family...they already screwed themselves when they decided it was a good investment because 6 kids/grandkids wasn't enough. I want to know WTF the doctor was thinking. Very, very silly and ridiculous situation, if you ask me.
Have to weigh in on the breastfeeding thing. I nursed all 4 of my kids for around 2 years. So far none of them seem to have mommy issues. I wouldn't be comfortable nursing someone over 3, but then I wouldn't give anyone over 3 a bottle either.
ReplyDeleteWith #1 I hid. I didn't want to offend anyone. Today I'm disgusted that I ever made my child eat in a public restroom.
#2 - I covered up, but didn't stress if he knocked the blanket off. It gets pretty hot under a blanket, especially in the middle of summer.
#3 - I was so tired that people were lucky I wore a shirt. I wasn't always nice to people who said something about my nursing in public. I went out of my way not to flash anyone, but that was more so they wouldn't bother me that it was to not offend them.
#4 - I was more relaxed with my body, but less tired, so while I didn't cover my baby up, I was usually nice to people who bothered me.
my favorite line - especially if the person seemed extra churchy - "Jesus didn't use a bottle."
I breastfed both of my kids but each was different as far as when they naturally wanted to drop the tit. (And while I wasn't an exhibitionist about it, I've breastfed at restaurant tables discreetly and had no complaints. I figured most people probably preferred a little glimpse of side boob to the wailing of an unconsoled infant). However, I was listening for that moment and I don't know that mothers who breastfeed ALL of their children to the exact same age are actually listening to the baby who will give you cues (e.g. milk production gradually decreases, baby watching you eat food). I'm skeptical that a toddler still wants the nourishment. I'm sure that they want the closeness still but that's where I start to wonder why an older child (like 2 or 3) would value that interaction over say reading a book together unless the mother has engineered their closeness to be based on breastfeeding. Yes it's perfectly natural and some ladies are seriously like addicted to breastfeeding (think I read a Selma Hayek quote to that end) and while that doesn't weird me out, it makes wonder about control issues on the mother's part (are these mother infantilizing these kids in other ways?).
ReplyDeleteAll of that said, I do believe that each child is unique and it's certainly plausible that if I have a third it could give me no sign of loss of interest well into middle school but I just really have my doubts.
Also, on the issue of making it a cause, as a fellow mother in this world, aren't there about a million far more important causes for children to spend your time on? I mean, I know that abused children, terminal illness and illiteracy are bummers, but those causes could actually use your level of fanaticism.
I agree with Faith, what the hell is a doctor doing IVF on a mother who has 6 kids already? Geez, and you know the taxpayers of California are going to pay for all 14 kids.
ReplyDeleteI've been a stepmom & a foster mom, so #1. The gal with the 14 kids is mentally ill and most of her kids will grow up with some kind of problems too, because there is no way you can have normal parent-child relationships with that many kids. It's shameful too, with a half million kids in foster homes waiting to be adopted, to pop out an entire football team.
ReplyDelete#2. On breast feeding. When I was a kid about eight or nine, I walked in on the wife of one of my father's friends while she was beast feeding her baby. I had never seen a grown woman's breast before, at least not that I could remember. She had dark hair all around her nipple and it was wet from the baby & the milk. I was completely freaked out and stammered, "Excuse me," and fled from the room. I still shudder at the memory.
I'm not bothered by general nudity, female or male, I don't have any gender identity/orientation issues, nothing like that. Breasts are beautiful. But whipping one out in the general public or on the internet and attaching a baby to it is going to make certain people uncomfortable. I am one of those people. If I still had young children in my custody, I would prefer that they learn about breasts and adult nudity when they are a little older. Jesus may not have used a bottle, but this is not first-century Bethlehem. We have breast pumps for use when mothers take breast-fed babies into public -- use them. Please.
More info coming out on mom of 14 kids. All of them, all 14, are from the same sperm donor. Her mother says she is obsessed with having kids. I'd say that is an understatement. There's a lot of craziness in this story yet to be unfolded.
ReplyDelete1. You realize, of course, that the medical community will do almost anything for money... oh wait, she has no money... hmmm... so who paid?
ReplyDelete2. It's Facebooks business if they don't want breastfeeding mom's on it that's fine with me. And I was breastfed until I was 36.