You know... I've never actually heard a reason.... I hadn't even thought about it... I was just too astounded by everything after she got pregnant and started having the publicity....

 I know Jenny! It was the same for me!

But now that I'm thinking about it, I really do want to know why she went IVF rather than IUI? I mean, did she at one point face the fear of never conceiving? Is that what drove her to this craziness? What exactly happened there?

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Jenny said ...
You know... I've never actually heard a reason.... I hadn't even thought about it... I was just too astounded by everything after she got pregnant and started having the publicity....

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Excellent questions that I'd love to know the answers to also!

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S.I.F. said ...
But now that I'm thinking about it, I really do want to know why she went IVF rather than IUI? I mean, did she at one point face the fear of never conceiving? Is that what drove her to this craziness? What exactly happened there?

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Another thing I'd love to know the answer to (and may have heard about and just don't remember).... how were her older kids conceived?

 From what I understand, all 14 were concieved by IVF - One egg retrieval. This last round involved all frozen embryos from the past round actually.

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Jenny said ...
Another thing I'd love to know the answer to (and may have heard about and just don't remember).... how were her older kids conceived?

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My understanding from what I have heard is that there was NOTHING wrong with her in the fertility department. I guess she was one of those who couldnt get a guy to get her pregnant so ended up doing the whole frozen embryo route. Then she didnt want the last of her embryos to go to waste or to anyone else so she opted to have them all implanted. Now she is the proud single welfare mother of 14 children with several with special needs.

I still have a lot of anger at her and a lot more anger at her doctors that let her do this. And seriously who exactly paid for her treatments and pregnancies? To my knowledge she hasnt been employed for a while now so was it the tax payers who paid for it all? How ethical is that to do this with a woman who has evident mental issues as well as a woman who OBVIOUSLY has no means of properly taking care of this many children?

You know, I think she DID have infertility issues!  I will have to do some research, but I'm almost 100% positive she did.

My question is why she needed/wanted to go this second round when she already had 6 kids in the first place...

For most single women 6 kids is PLENTY!

Shoot. I'm married and that's too many!!!

I just read where she DID have blocked tubes, but I don't know how to post a link!

Found it in an article by the Huffington Post dated Jan. 31, 2009.