Sextuplets

[A Century United]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8063956.stm

Interesting listening to the Doctor involved in the case on the radio tonight. He was very careful to say that the babies "Hadn't been concieved by IVF." This has now been reported in some places as a 'Natural conception', eg the Telegraph:

The sextuplets, which were conceived naturally...

However, just because IVF, which is fertilising eggs outside the womb and then implanting them, wasn't used doesn't mean that other "interventions" weren't used, eg fertility drugs, which can cause the ovaries to release multiple eggs, or donor sperm, which again isn't IVF.

Add to this the families insistence on privacy and refusal to allow any photos, and my suspicion is that this is some form of "non-standard" family situation, whether that is a single mum, as in the case in California, or a single sex-couple, or something else.

Or am I taking 1+1 and making 6?

 

[Mrs S]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8063956.stm

Interesting listening to the Doctor involved in the case on the radio tonight. He was very careful to say that the babies "Hadn't been concieved by IVF." This has now been reported in some places as a 'Natural conception', eg the Telegraph:



However, just because IVF, which is fertilising eggs outside the womb and then implanting them, wasn't used doesn't mean that other "interventions" weren't used, eg fertility drugs, which can cause the ovaries to release multiple eggs, or donor sperm, which again isn't IVF.

Add to this the families insistence on privacy and refusal to allow any photos, and my suspicion is that this is some form of "non-standard" family situation, whether that is a single mum, as in the case in California, or a single sex-couple, or something else.

Or am I taking 1+1 and making 6?

Yeah: she does look a bit old and grey - hard to believe there was no technological helping hand. However, it is a fact that a woman's body does go through a brief but sudden overdrive in those vague and hazy years before the onset of menopause, a sort of biological last-minute-panic-for-procreation (Mr S beware ….) that can result in the release of multiple eggs, thus increasing the possibility of multiple pregnancy - but 6? That is going it some. I agree the denial of 'IVF’ is rather vague – and did you notice her eyes go in different directions? Do not rule out the possibility of alien invasion as the only reasonable and logical explanation ...