Octuplet Mom To Kate Plus 8 - Deal With Your Own Issues

Nadya Suleman, the Octomom, is angry over comments made by Kate Gosselin, the star of "Jon & Kate Plus 8".

Gosselin was interviewed earlier in 2009 on the "Dr. Phil" TV show and was asked about her thoughts on the Suleman situation. Kate responded that it was going to be very difficult for Nadya Suleman to raise 14 children, especially without the help of husband to share the parenting and chores.

"Do I have to watch it? She reminds me of my mother," said Suleman, a resident of La Habra, in an interview with Radar Online released this morning. "I have moved past my mistakes. She has her own issues. ... She needs to stop being so judgmental and stop pulling at straws for attention."

"Jon & Kate Plus 8" is the ppoular TLC reality TV show that shadows Kate Gosselin and her husband raise their eight children. The show has gotten much publicity in recent weeks amid reports of marital troubles between the couple.

Suleman said in the video interview that Gosselin should focus on her own life. "My children are extremely healthy, strong and happy. Don't you have, like, a lot of issues in your life? A lot of marital problems?" she told Radar.

Timing is everything! Suleman's attorney just announced that Nadya Suleman had signed a deal to do her own reality TV show.

"They came up with this idea, presented to her and she liked it because she'll get to use a camera and do some of the filming herself," her attorney, Jeff Czech, told the Associated Press. Czech added that the film crew will cover milestones and special events instead of following the family all the time.

Nadya Suleman's Doc "Ock" Still Unknown

I wonder how the fertility doctor of the octuplet mom must be feeling right about now - knowing sooner or later he will have to face the music and explain why he allowed Nadya Suleman, a woman with 6 kids (2 -7 years old) to undergo in vitro fertilization.

It seems that the public outroar over this case has triggered an investigation by the Medical Board of California - to see if there was a "violation of the standard of care", board spokeswoman Candis Cohen said yesterday.

"The revelation about one center treating her makes the treatment even harder to understand," said Arthur Caplan, bioethics chairman at the University of Pennsylvania. "They went ahead when she had six kids, knowing that she was a single mom ... and put embryos into her anyway."

In the United States, there is no law dictating the number of embryos that can be placed in a mother's womb. Multiple embryos can be implanted to improve the odds that one will take.
Still no word from the doctor who performed the in vitro procedure.

I bet right now he wishes he could crawl into a womb and hide for 8 months!

Nadya Suleman Airs It Out On The "Today" Show

It looks like Nadya Suleman is finally talking! The octuplet mom has given an interview to NBC's Today Ann Curry that will air some time next week.

The mother of 14 defends her decision about undergoing in vitro fertilization when she already had 6 kids at home. She disspells any thoughts of her being completely irresponsible and selfish to bring these children in the world without a clear source of income and enough help to raise them.

During the interview, Nadya Suleman, 33, talks about how she fell into deep depression after years of failed pregnancies. It took her 7 years before she had her first child. In 1999 she gave birth for the first time, after a 1999 injury during a riot at a state mental hospital where she worked.

According to a psychological evaluation in her workers' compensation case, Suleman feared she would lose the child and sunk into an intense depression.

"When you have a history of miscarriages, you think it will take a miracle," she told Dr. Dennis Nehamen. "I just wanted to die. I suspected I was pregnant but I thought, 'That's ridiculous.'"

But the 2001 birth of the baby "helped my spirits," Suleman said.

Papers filed in the Worker's Comp case show she collected over $165,000 in disability payments between 2002 and 2008 for the work injury.

Ms. Suleman also discussed the pain she endured as a result of the breakup of her marriage to Marcos Gutierrez, whom she wed in 1996 and divorced in 2008.

It appears that the general public is still unsure what to think about the whole thing. Many still wonder what were her motives really were.

Could jealousy be a reason for the negative sentiment? I mean she is the most sought after mom in the world and she has plenty of potential offers, including possible book and TV deals, and might do other interviews later!

Maybe we are all focused on the wrong person - shouldn't we be thinking about the children and their health?

Octuplet's Mom Resting While Father Is In Vitro

Nadya Suleman, the woman who gave birth to octuplets was already a mother of six by the time she ended an eight-year marriage last year, though all the children came from in vitro fertilization — not from her ex-husband.
Nadya Suleman was married to Marcos Gutierrez in 1996, and the couple separated in 2000. Gutierrez filed for the divorce, which was finalized in January 2008.
The births of the octuplets has the medical community aghast as to why a mother of six was given fertility treatment. Nadya still has not given interviews and no pictures have been released.
A review of divorce papers by The Associated Press shows Gutierrez is the father of a boy named Samuel, but he was not subject to joint-custody. Suleman is not the boy's mother.
Suleman had six children by in vitro fertilization by the time the divorce was finalized. Those children are now ages 2 to 7, and include a pair of fraternal twins.
Two years before her divorce, Suleman earned a degree in child and adolescent development from California State University, Fullerton. As late as last spring she was studying for a master's degree in counseling, college spokeswoman Paula Selleck said.
Suleman was employed by a mental hospital from 1997 through 2008, but her income remains unclear.
The 33-year-old's identity and hometown remained anonymous for several days until a neighbor's tip led media to her home in Whittier, about 15 miles east of Los Angeles.
Still, neither the woman nor her world famous newborns have been introduced to the public. They remain in a hospital in Bellflower where they all appear to doing better.
The babies, born nine weeks premature on Jan. 26, were breathing without assistance and being tube-fed Wednesday.
"The babies are all getting stronger every day," Suleman's mother, Angela Suleman, told The Associated Press.
The woman, who spoke briefly at her front door in Whittier while children could be heard playing inside the house, said doctors hadn't determined when her daughter would return home.
"It will probably be a few more days," she said.
source: LA Times

The Big Picture of Nadya Suleman Uncovered With More Details

According to the LA Times, more details began to emerge Tuesday about Nadya Suleman, the Whittier mother of newborn octuplets and six other children.

Records show that Suleman, 33, had filed for workers’ compensation in 1999 while employed as a psychiatric technician at Metropolitan State Hospital.

Details for the claim were not available. In 2001, Suleman filed a second claim with the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board for "injury to neck, back and shoulders from auto accident on commute for medical treatment," according to records filed with the California Department of Industrial Relations.

The records indicate that her actual earnings at the time of injury were "max," but no specific dollar amount was provided. Suleman received treatment for the injuries that were covered by her employer or insurance company, records show.

She was not covered by Medi-Cal. Patricia Ortiz, public information officer for the state Division of Workers' Compensation, said that "max" earnings means that Suleman was earning at least $490 per week at the time of her injury.

The claim was filed, records stated, because of a disagreement regarding liability for: temporary disability indemnity, permanent disability indemnity, reimbursement for medical expense, medical treatment, compensation at proper rate and rehabilitation. Additional records show that on Sept. 25, 2008, a petition was filed to compel Suleman to attend a medical exam with "petition to terminate liability for temporary disability indemnity."

No other details about Suleman’s case were available. Since the birth last week of the octuplets, Suleman has come under criticism for undergoing fertility treatment despite the fact she already had six children and was a single mother. It does not appear that Suleman was working, though she has been attending school at Cal State Fullerton, where she was pursuing a master’s degree in counseling.

Meanwhile, officials at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center said Tuesday afternoon that the octuplets continue to do well. “The world might see them as octuplets, but in our [unit] they are eight individual babies with their own personalities and needs," said Mandhir Gupta, a neonatologist. Officials said the babies were breathing on their own and receiving a nutritional supplement intravenously that is tailored to their individual needs. They are also being fed donated pasteurized breast milk.

Everyone is amazed and intrigued with the story of this unemployed woman with 6 kids who decided to go ahead and have more kids using in vitro fertilization. One thing is for sure, her story will reap millions. Why you might ask? The tabloids are having a bidding war for exclusive rights to her disfunctional story - and the curious want to know what makes this woman tick!