Nadya Suleman is the Mom of octuplets, eight babies – plus six other children, including two-year-old twins. That makes fourteen kids for this 33 year old mother. Photo and Today Show video below.
Baby Pre-Term – Photo
Ms Suleman used the sperm of an “admirer,” David Soloman, to conceive her first six children. Doctors then used the left-over embryos for the fertility treatments that resulted in the birth of the octuplets.
Assuming Mr. Soloman is the father, Suelman says that he is the father of all fourteen children and she hopes he will be present in their lives. In the video below, the interviewer says that the father of the baby is “overwhelmed.”
State Mental Health documents totaling over 300 pages were released on February 5th, 2009 detailing years of depression and loneliness. Suleman is divorced and has been on disability for about six years, collecting more than $165,000 for an “on- the-job” back injury.
NBC’s Ann Curry interviewed Suleman for Monday, February 9th airing on the Today Show. Ms. Suleman allegedly told Curry that she had dysfunctional childhood:
That was always a dream of mine, to have a large family, a huge family,” she said. “I just longed for certain connections and attachments with another person that … I really lacked, I believe, growing up.
The State reports that:
…she had a happy childhood. She told them she was an above-average high school student, enjoyed being a cheerleader, had many friends and stayed out of trouble. She said her parents were loving and supportive.
Her “loving and supportive” mother says Nadya did not like being an only child:
She always blamed me for only having her,” Angela Suleman, a retired teacher-turned-grandma of 14, told Us magazine.
Ms. Suleman’s mother said that when Nadya’s marriage did not work out, she “rejected other suitors,” and “used the donated sperm of one of her admirers, David Soloman,” to conceive her first six children.” Grandma says she was brought up in the “traditional way:” “I firmly believe in marriage.”
The octuplet’s Grandma lives with her daughter, but it’s reported here that she isn’t interested in living with her daughter after the babies come home:
I’m going to be gone before the new brood comes home from the hospital.
So what does Nadya’s father, Edward, have to say about the miracle birth of eight babies?
I wish it happens to you people, so you go through hell,” he snapped at the media throng as he unloaded bags of shopping from his car.
Grandpa is considering returning to his native Iraq where he believes he can make enough money to provide for his daughter’s fourteen children. Now that’s a switch. Leave America for Iraq…to provide for your family?
Nadya has hired a public relations expert to handle the TV, and book offers coming in for the octuplets Mom.
Public sentiment for Ms. Suleman’s intentional conception of multiple babies has not brought the usual flood of gifts from makers of baby food, diapers, and toys, which ultimately garners publicity for the manufacturer. Instead, they are staying away from the controversial births, which in many minds are seen as irresponsible, and possible harmful to all fourteen children. So far, no new mini-van, no new house, no guaranteed college tuition.
Suleman says she has never been on welfare and does not plan to accept welfare now. With the help of her family, friends and church, she believes she can provide for all of her children until she finishes school. According to the video below, she is pursuing her Masters in Counseling.
Born on January 26th, the two girls and six boys weighed between 1 pound, eight ounces and 3 pounds, 4 ounces. They will stay hospitalized for about a month. This is the second set of octuplets born in the United States, and to- date, the longest living octuplets.
In the following video, Suleman shows the frustration at the criticisms leveled at her:
I’m providing myself to my children, I’m loving them unconditionally, and accepting them unconditionally. I’ll stop my life for them, and be present with them, and hold them, and be with them.”
Ms. Suleman and her family expected seven babies. Now there’s one more. What’s all the fuss about?
Octuplets Mom: Nadya Suleman – Video (Today Show)
February 6th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Who cares if some poor lady has 14 kids? Even if lots of poor people had lots of kids, taking care of them still wouldn’t cost $800,000,000,000. Get off your high horses and point the finger at someone with some real power.
February 6th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Hillary Smith, nice way to hi-jack the story, you imbecile.
The woman is nuts and selfish. And, even if she receives her Master’s, it will not make her enough to support 14 children. Face it, we are on the hook for his sleazeball who is about one step above a slut.
February 6th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
She started collecting disability for a back injury before she had any children. She then went on to bear and care for 6 children and still have a strong enough back to carry and birth octuplets. Her back is good enough for all that, but not for a desk job somewhere?? It looks like a clear case of disability fraud.
February 6th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Lady is irresponsible. As is anyone else who decides that it’s a good idea to have that many children (all at once or otherwise) and then goes out and actually does it.
February 6th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
The kids are here now……Visit us at our chatroom Sat 7th Sept 2009. Bring your kids!! It’s a kid’s chat.
February 6th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
Just what 14 innocent babies need. A mom
who is emotionally immature, financially
destitute, and does not know the importance
of family, obligation, and responsibility!!
February 7th, 2009 at 1:12 am
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February 8th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
In regards to Marty Courtney’s comment:
“we are on the hook for his sleazeball who is about one step above a slut.”
NO matter who it is or thier situation is YOU should be ASHAMED for yourself for being so rude and vulgar!
shame on you!
February 8th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
She is just another quintessential California success story!
February 10th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
The story was enlighting, but sad that one women’s void would have her reach out to an embryo to fill the place where Jesus needs to reside.
Babies are a blessing and I do believe she does love the children. However, her desires have overshadowed the reality of what’s required to have a full healthy life for the children.
Love can conquer all things, but can it fill the empty stomachs or the childrens desires when they get older?
February 11th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Following my own observations about opinions, I’ve been biting my tongue on the backlash of opinions being shared the world over about this mother of 14. I’ve been waiting to finalize my thoughts until we had a chance to hear directly from the horse itself, so to speak. Finally, Dateline has given us the opportunity to hear from Ms. Suleman herself.
Having listened to the interview it’s difficult to keep one’s opinions quiet. While I have opinions about her already having 6 children and not being married and then adding to her family, I don’t think it’s my place or anyone else’s to make judgments. But I stop cold when I learn that she has NO INCOME and is living off food stamps, student loans, disability and the goodness of her parents. (Interestingly, her own mother’s interview certainly comes off as though they share the world’s disgust.) It’s not as though this was some accident, Ms. Suleman chose to have IVF and to keep all 8 babies.
Listening to Ms. Suleman speak about providing both emotionally and financially for her brood, it becomes quite clear that she isn’t living in reality. Without dissecting the selfish reasons for which she chose to have so many children or the risks she took of leaving her first six without a mother, I’ll stick to the financial and emotional issues.
How can one think that her decision to have these children is anything short of emotional and financial ignorance? Given that she lives with her parents, where there are a total of 9 people crammed into 1,500 sq. ft. of space, how does she expect to cram another 8 into that space? This is certainly not fair to the children or her parents; and one has to question whether that many people in that space is even healthy.
In reading the financial analysis of the basic costs of diapering, feeding, and transporting to doctors and eventual childcare costs alone, it is obvious that without government assistance or relying on donations she is not capable of providing for these children. Some have compared her to Angelina Jolie (both for looks and desire to have a large brood). Here’s the difference as I see it…Angelina and Brad can afford to provide for their children as well as afford to secure the additional help that it takes to raise such a large family – not to mention the fact that they are providing homes for existing homeless children.
Even if companies and people step up to help (for the benefit of the children – not because of her), her ability to provide the emotional and physical attention these children will need and deserve is highly questionable. We don’t let people have obscene quantities of cats, dog or pets in a home that is not equipped to handle them. It appears as though cramming that many people in the existing home borders on the same obscenity. A home of 1,569 sq. ft. divided by 17 people provides a total of 92.3 sq. foot per person!
No one wants these kids to suffer. Yet how do we as a society help provide for these children’s needs without reinforcing this woman’s selfish indulgence and encouraging others to act so irresponsibly?
February 11th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Remove them, maybe split them up in couples to be adopted or introduce them to couple or family that has the means to raise all of them as a unit.
I think shes displayed enough poor drcision making that bordrs on insanity to where a case could be made to take them away.
How I got there is that this woman is also infatuated with trying to take on the appearance of Angelina Jolie and so with that it also appears that shes trying to emulate the same lifestlyle as the actress also by surrounding herself with just as many if not more children.
Suleman denies it , but the facts dont.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/katherine-thomson/does-nadya-suleman-think_b_165617.html
February 12th, 2009 at 8:41 am
Micky, on the Angelina Jolie look. I also think she has had some lip botox. O’Reilly said they investigated and she has had no work done, but I found photos going back to before she was pregnant, and I disagree. She has definitely had her lips plumped.
February 12th, 2009 at 8:46 am
Micky, I followed your link. The small photo of her in the HuffPo piece may not be Nadya. I saw it in a “photo album” that Nadya’s mother “supposedly” let a reporter copy. In that album, the woman in the photo is holding a baby and is labeled as a “relative.” For what it’s worth.
Nevertheless, there are other photos of her in the album and her lips do look different.
Wonder where she got the money to have botox (if she did)?
February 12th, 2009 at 8:50 am
Helene, you bring up many good points. No one wants a baby to suffer, which is why she should not have had these children. You have to be an idiot to know the risk of multiple births, and know that there almost zero chance that there will no serious defects, and still intentionally give birth.
She thinks she is all her children need because she “loves them unconditionally” and “is present.” Well, tell that to a diabled child, who has other disable siblings, with a mother who emotionally and physically cannot care for him/her. These children will have a miserable life and I predict this mother is on the road to several serious breakdowns.
February 12th, 2009 at 11:58 am
Maybe in the last week she brushed up on her 5th grade math and realized theres almost no way she can raise all these children. I heard on one of the cable news outlets yesterday that she said anyone would have to be crazy to think they could raise this many kids and that shes finished having children.
Shes also in hiding while launching a website to take donations
I dont know, thats just what I heard.
February 12th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Regardless of whether she is allowed to take the babies home with her other six or not, the TAXPAYERS already are paying and will continue to pay. If the babies are taken away taxpayers will still pay. I wonder how the Doctor would feel if his license is taken and he and David Solomon are required to pay for the upbringing of these 8 babies? Since David Solomon is named on birth certificates of her other children, why isn’t he required to pay child support?
February 12th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
She is selfish [insult edited out] and cares little about the world and how WE as taxpayers will have to take care of her children. If you haven’t noticed, we are already overpopulated and people like this need to get their heads out of the clouds.
February 12th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Nadya Suleman is the just another version of GM and the banking industry, seeking a bailout for their own personal recklessness. We need to a return to personal responsibility. Let private charities deal with Nadya’s children. I should not have to support that.
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:18 pm
OK… I always say what would Jesus do???? We’ll these children are an obnhination. I understand she wanted children and did have a doctor implant many children into her. What about the children the doctors already put in her? If GOD wanted her to have children, he would have let her. She went to the DEVIL for children. If GOD wanted here to have 14 children, he would have let her. Satin put this children into her. I was Pro Live, but this turned me to PRO Choice. In addition the doctor should be put in prison for taking her money that should be going to the first children she had and to help pay for the well being of the 3 children with special needs. These ARE NOT GOD’s children. They are manufactured like an assembly line for a selfish women who wants media attention and has some kind of mental disfunction. If the Christian Church Supports this, I’m converting to Judaism or be a Muslim. In addition, help pay you parents mortgage!!!!!!!!!!
March 18th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
I think she is a nice lady some people have a big heart for her and her children i say amen for her and her children they need our prayers and help i verry proud of the americans who did help she is verry proud of her children that says a lot for her all mothers feel proud its normal i like her i think she is a better mother than a lot of the movie stars she loves her children lv her alone if you dont want to help or encourage her good luck to the lovley lady she needs now a husband so you would lv her alone