6 + 8 = !

I am absolutely dumbfounded by what I just read in Yahoo news this morning. A few days ago, I had read in passing the little blurb about the woman who gave birth to eight(!) babies this week but didn't think much of it, other than, "Yikes! Better her than me!"
Now I read that this woman already had six children before being given in vitro fetility treatment. AND..that she is unmarried. How does she handle it all? How do you relate to and nurture so many children at one time, I always wonder.
The grandmother (the octuplet's mother's mother) was interviewed and said that her daughter had always been obsessed with having children since she was a teenager.
To each her own and it's her life..yadda-yadda-yadda--but the mind boggles!

Make that 14: Octuplet mom already had 6 kids

By THOMAS WATKINS and LAURAN NEERGAARD, Associated Press Writers Thomas Watkins And Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press Writers – Sat Jan 31, 1:08 am ET

WHITTIER, Calif. – How in the world does a woman with six children get a fertility doctor to help her have more — eight more?
An ethical debate erupted Friday after it was learned that the Southern California woman who gave birth to octuplets this week had six children already.
Large multiple births "are presented on TV shows as a `Brady Bunch' moment. They're not," fumed Arthur Caplan, bioethics chairman at the University of Pennsylvania. He noted the serious and sometimes lethal complications and crushing medical costs that often come with high-multiple births.
But Dr. Jeffrey Steinberg, who has fertility clinics in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and New York, countered: "Who am I to say that six is the limit? There are people who like to have big families."
Kaiser Permanente announced the mega-delivery Monday in Bellflower, with delighted doctors saying they had initially expected seven babies and were surprised when the cesarean section yielded an eighth.
Multiple births this big are considered impossible without fertility treatment, but the doctors who delivered the babies would not say whether 33-year-old Nadya Suleman had used fertility drugs or had embryos implanted in her womb.
However, the children's grandmother, Angela Suleman, told The Associated Press her daughter resorted to in vitro fertilization because "her fallopian tubes are plugged up" and she had trouble conceiving.
She said her daughter, who is unmarried, conceived all her children that way and has been obsessed with having children since she was a teenager.
Fourteen grandchildren later, Angela Suleman expects her daughter is finished with fertility treatment.
"It's over now," she said. "It has to be. 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. So she got the in vitro."

You can read the rest here. I have to go wake up my one sleeping beauty now. A mother's work is never done.