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octuplets stories: 88 news summaries

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Nadya Threatens Suicide in Cop Call on Missing Son

'I'm going to kill myself,' Suleman says after 5-year-old wandered off

Mar 5, 09 3:13 AM CST
(AP) - "Oh God, I'm going to kill myself," unhinged octuplet mom Nadya Suleman repeatedly told a police dispather last year as she frantically searched for a missing son, according to emergency phone call tapes. Suleman called 911 after her 5-year-old son went missing from the front yard, only to... More »

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mothers • 911 call • multiple births • octuplets • Nadya Suleman

 Octuplet Mom 
 Birth Tape 
 May Go 
 Public 

Video is being shopped for seven figures

Mar 4, 09 9:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Nadya Suleman may be serving up the realest reality show of all: TMZ reports a videotape of her octuplets’ delivery is being shopped for seven figures. Suleman apparently gave her consent, but it’s not clear who did the filming. More »

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video • birth • childbirth • Gloria Allred • Dr Phil • multiple births • octuplets • Nadya Suleman

(Newser) - All the outrage over Nadya Suleman and her octuplets is a little disingenuous, Raina Kelley writes in Newsweek. “Because, in truth, we created Octomom. With our glorification of bizarre behavior, we dare the emotionally needy to shock and appall us,” Kelley writes. “And then we slam them.... More »

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television • Angelina Jolie • in vitro fertilization • welfare • multiple births • octuplets • Nadya Suleman • media frenzy • public assistance


 Child Services Probed 
 Octuplet Mom 

Police have visited home eight times; family plans to move

Mar 3, 09 7:38 AM CST
(Newser) - A pre-octuplets Nadya Suleman was investigated by LA’s Department of Children and Family Services, TMZ reports—and cops have been called to her last two homes eight times for reasons ranging from a missing child to a feared break-in. DCFS visited the home in July after a neighbor complained... More »

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investigation • police • children • multiple births • food stamps • social work • octuplets • Nadya Suleman

Georgia Bill Would Make Implanted Octuplets a Crime

Lawmakers seek to cap number of embryos

Mar 3, 09 5:14 AM CST
(Newser) - Lawmakers in Georgia have introduced a bill to ban some of the fertility procedures that gave Nadya Suleman her octuplets, reports the Wall Street Journal. The bill—partly drafted by a state pro-life group—would limit to three the number of embryos that can be implanted in women over 40,... More »

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in vitro fertilization • Georgia • fertility treatment • multiple births • bill • octuplets • Nadya Suleman • implanted embryos

Octuplet Mom Turns Down
Free, 24-Hour Child Care

Starts video diary to explain her side of story

Mar 2, 09 1:45 PM CST
(Newser) - Nadya Suleman has rejected an offer from a nonprofit group for free, 24-hour care for her 14 kids, the Los Angeles Times reports. The group’s founder says Suleman lost interest when it vetoed a reality show based around their care, but Suleman disputes that in a video diary for... More »

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child care • Oprah Winfrey • blog • octuplets • Nadya Suleman

 Adoption May 
 Be Option for 
 Octuplets: 
 Grandma 

Grandmother wants her life back

Feb 27, 09 3:37 AM CST
(Newser) - Adoption may be an option for Nadya Suleman's octuplets if she can't care for them properly, her mom revealed in an interview with The Insider. "If I could see that she would not be able to take of them financially, I would opt for this," said Angela Suleman,... More »

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parenting • single parenting • multiple births • Kaiser Permanente • octuplets • Nadya Suleman • Angela Suleman

 Octu-Mom 
 Offered $1M 
 to Do Porno 

Plus, second Octu-Fam video released

Feb 25, 09 10:31 AM CST
(Newser) - Nadya Suleman may not be getting her own reality show, but she could make $1 million starring in a porno, TMZ reports. Porn distributor Vivid Entertainment also promised Suleman and her 14 kids medical and dental insurance if she makes more than one. The offer comes on the heels of... More »

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in vitro fertilization • pornography • online videos • multiple births • octuplets • Nadya Suleman • Angela Suleman

Octu-Mom Fears Hospital Won't Release Babies

Suleman says hospital is worried about her ability to care for eight more children

Feb 25, 09 2:20 AM CST
(Newser) - Nadya Suleman has told TV talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw that the hospital where her octuplets were born will not release them unless she can prove her ability to care for the babies, reports the Los Angeles Times. A distressed Suleman—due to appear on two episodes of the... More »

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Dr Phil • multiple births • Child Protective Services • Kaiser Permanente • octuplets • Nadya Suleman • Angela Suleman

 Octu-Mom, 
 Grandma 
 Face Off 
 in New Vid 

Mom rips daughter for irresponsibility

Feb 24, 09 9:09 AM CST
(Newser) - Octuplet mom Nadya Suleman and her own mother, Angela, have been sniping at each other in interviews—and now a video from Radar captures their first face-off. The bizarre sit-down includes an argument over how Nadya could have dealt with her frozen embryos and Angela’s apparent suggestion that she... More »

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in vitro fertilization • foreclosure • online videos • multiple births • mortgage delinquency • octuplets • Nadya Suleman • Angela Suleman


 Sperm Donor 
 Isn't Octu-Dad: 
 Suleman 

Man: Nadya said she had ovarian cancer

Feb 23, 09 10:50 AM CST
(Newser) - The man who appeared on ABC's Good Morning America today as the possible dad of Nadya Suleman’s octuplets didn’t father any of her children, Suleman told Us Magazine. Dennis Beaudoin’s “not lying. He went to the doctor with me once,” she said. “It didn’... More »

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Good Morning America • father • paternity test • sperm donors • multiple births • octuplets • Nadya Suleman • Dennis Beaudoin

 'Octu-Dad' 
 Bares Mom's 
 Breast Stunt 

Sperm donor believes Suleman was still married when they dated

Feb 22, 09 5:42 PM CST
(Newser) - A sperm donor who believes he fathered all of Nadya Suleman's octuplets said he thinks she was still married when they started dating and she asked him for sperm, reports the Huffington Post. They had been seeing each other just weeks when she took a sample of sperm he had... More »

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Oprah Winfrey • Good Morning America • sperm donors • multiple births • octuplets • Nadya Suleman • Ed Doud

 Octu-Gramp Rips 
 'Irresponsible' Daughter 

But don't punish her babies, he pleads with public

Feb 20, 09 3:04 AM CST
(Newser) - Nadya Suleman's father blasted his daughter and the doctor who implanted her eight embyros as "absolutely irresponsible" in an Oprah interview, reports the Huffington Post. "I'm no psychiatrist, but I question her mental situation," said Ed Doud in comments to air next week. But he pleaded with... More »

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octuplets • Nadya Suleman • Ed Doud

(Newser) - The birth certificates of most of Nadya Suleman’s children list no father, TMZ reports, though all 14 kids have the surname Solomon. A "David Solomon"—who may be from Israel, based on a liberal interpretation of the documents—is listed as the father of four of Suleman’... More »

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California • in vitro fertilization • father • multiple births • Kaiser Permanente • octuplets • Nadya Suleman • birth certificate • David Solomon

Octuplets' Home in Danger
of Foreclosure

Octu-grandma in loan default; Octu-grandpa talking to Oprah

Feb 19, 09 6:01 AM CST
(Newser) - Nadya Suleman acknowledges that her 3-bedroom home is too small for her brood of 14, but the family is in danger of losing even that, the Los Angeles Times reports. Records show that the suburban California home, which is owned by the octuplets' grandmother, is in pre-foreclosure, with a projected... More »

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Oprah Winfrey • foreclosure • multiple births • octuplets • Nadya Suleman • Angela Suleman

Doc Files Complaint vs. Octuplet Mom

Shrink hasn't met her; meanwhile, TLC rules out reality show

Feb 18, 09 11:00 AM CST
(Newser) - A psychiatrist who has never met Nadya Suleman has filed a formal complaint against the mother of 14 with LA County’s child-welfare department TMZ reports. The doc, who frequently appears on talk shows, alleges Suleman “is not stable enough” and is putting her kids, including her newborn octuplets,... More »

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reality TV • Los Angeles • psychiatrist • multiple births • TLC • octuplets • Nadya Suleman


 Birth Defects, 
 IVF Linked, but 
 How Linked? 

Study finds increased genetic issues among test tube babies

Feb 17, 09 11:03 AM CST
(Newser) - Though the octuplets have pushed in vitro fertilization into the spotlight, there's still one question that's going largely unasked, reports the New York Times: "What is the chance that an IVF baby will have a birth defect?" Though a November study provided preliminary evidence—of 9,584 babies... More »

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genetics • in vitro fertilization • medical research • genetic defects • multiple births • birth defect • octuplets

 Octuplet Mom Rules Out 
 Reality Show 

Another PR firm cuts ties, former publicist speaks out

Feb 17, 09 10:11 AM CST
(Newser) - Is a reality show in octu-mom Nadya Suleman’s future? “No, I think that's exploitation of my kids,” she told TMZ. Good thing that's her attitude, because yet another PR firm has denied having ties with the mother of 14, reports Access Hollywood. The president of Ambassador Agency,... More »

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reality TV • baby • death threats • publicity • public relations • multiple births • octuplets • Nadya Suleman

(Newser) - The grandmother of the California octuplets has backtracked on a well-publicized, and rather dim opinion of her daughter, Us reports. Nadya Suleman “is trying so hard to take care of these children, and she's a good mother,” her mother, Angela, said. “She's a very good mother,... More »

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California • mothers • baby • Kaiser Permanente • television interview • grandmother • octuplets • Nadya Suleman • Angela Suleman

(Newser) - It's too late for the decision to limit the size of her family, but the octuplets mom has sworn off sex for 18 years, she tells the Sun. "I cannot maintain a social life and be a mother," said single mom Nadya Suleman, 33. "To even take... More »

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pregnancy • parenting • mothers • baby • multiple births • octuplets • Nadya Suleman

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