I just saw on the Newshour that there was a litter of octuplets delivered in Southern California yesterday (yes, I said litter - just calling it as I see it). I guess the hospital was prepared to deliver seven babies and then discovered there were eight in the middle of delivery. CAN YOU IMAGINE HAVING THAT MANY BABIES?!?! It truly boggles the mind.

I have no doubt this is controversial to say, but I think it's negligent of the parents to even attempt to have that many kids in one shot. I firmly believe there should have been some "selections" made. They clearly were using fertility treatments and they clearly were not doing so in a responsible manner - or at least their doctor was not doing so in a responsible manner. The health risks posed to those babies by virtue of being super-multiples are astounding. And the financial cost of the NICU alone will be close to a million bucks. But let's talk about that poor, poor, poor mother for a minute. How is she going to take care of all those babies in the middle of the night? How will she retain any sense of the sanity that I'm assuming she once had? I've seen Jon and Kate Plus 8 and realize that they will survive (barely - Kate sure acts like a bitch a lot of the time and I feel sorry for Jon), but it still seems like a trainwreck right from the get-go to me. THANK GOD I only had two. Then again, we weren't using fertility treatments so eight was never an option. It's just not natural.

And I sure as hell hope that woman's doctor gave her a tummy tuck as he was closing up the C-section (Lord knows I wish my doctor had).