<p>Mom has her website up now. Please visit and give your donations: :)</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.thenadyasulemanfamily.com/[/url]”>http://www.thenadyasulemanfamily.com/</a></p>
<p>" Have to wonder if her obsession with having children after her ectopic pregnancy, fibroids, divorce, injury, etc was her way of trying to take back control of her life since so many things were out of her control. "</p>
<p>I don’t think so since her mom says she has always been obsessed with having kids. Apparently her ecoptic pregnancy occurred at age 16. She says it was due to blocked fallopian tubes. I’m wondering if the blockage was due to having contracted an STD. For all we know, she may have been promiscuously trying to get pregnant from an earlier age.</p>
<p>The PTSD and depression may not have stemmed from her job-related injury, but could have been related to her unsuccessful pregnancies.</p>
<p>On Nadya’s site, if you click “leave a comment”, it takes you to where it says to leave a comment of “well wishes”…LOL…like that is the only kind of comment allowed? I gather it won’t be like one of these sites where all guest comments can be viewed…because it would look really bad…apparently public sentiment is not working in her favor by a large majority.</p>
<p>Northstarmom, I immediately thought of promiscuity, too, when I read that she had blocked tubes. With fibroids, it is surprising that she was able to carry so many pregancies, two of them multiples. Fibroids usually grow in response to pregnancy hormones, and they can interfere even with a single pregnancy.</p>
<p>So…Nadya’s public relations firm…has this as their approach to “marketing”…</p>
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<p>Yes, a business approach…</p>
<p>I think she needs a “damage control” firm.</p>
<p>soozievt- I also immediately check out the PR firm. So who is footing the bill for this? I am afraid that no matter what we think of this woman, there will be people out there handing her money and resources. She won’t need to go back to work, as others will provide for her family. Or maybe she will go back to school and work while others raise her children.</p>
<p>The PR firm probably is working for her on commission.</p>
<p>It is sad that the first six children are neglected again and their pictures or names don’t appear on “The Nadya Suleman Family” website. Aren’t they part of the family?</p>
<p>Can’t wait to hear the review of the 300 pg workers comp. report.
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<p>[Nadya</a> Suleman, Octuplets’ Mom, Discharged From Hospital And Does “Today”](<a href=“HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost”>HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost)</p>
<p>I may have missed this, but where was the interview with Ann Curry recorded at? It is obvious it is not at the grandparents home; who’s home is it? Did someone put the family up in a new home? I Tivoed the show and just watched it, before I watch Dr. Phil!</p>
<p>Am just watching Dr. Phil now. Her publicist mentioned the name of the church the mom keeps referring to, so I did a quick google search and found their web sites.</p>
<p>[Calvary</a> Chapel Golden Springs | Calvary Chapel Golden Springs: Calvary Chapel](<a href=“http://www.calvarygs.org/calvary/]Calvary”>Calvary Cycling Association — Calvary Chapel Golden Springs Calvary Chapel Golden Springs)</p>
<p>It’s basically a mega church, worshiping 12,000-14,000/week. So it possible the church will pull together and provide what this mom needs.</p>
<p>For those wanting a more current or accurate perspective on only children, so as not to buy into harmful stereotyping, a small subet of the empirical evidence on the issue.</p>
<p>It may be possible to get some of these from google scholar, I’m not sure. For those unable to access them, the collective wisdom is that contrary to stereotypes, research shows that only children do not significantly differ from children with siblings, and the few differences found (which tend to be motivational/achievement oriented, not personality and sociability) are in favor of the only child:</p>
<p>Mancillas (2006). Challenging the Stereotypes About Only Children: A Review of the Literature and Implications for Practice. Journal of Counseling & Development, 84(3), 268-275. </p>
<p>Mottus, Indus & Allik (2008). Accuracy of only children stereotype. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 1047-1052. </p>
<p>Kitzmann, Cohen & Lockwood (2002). Are Only Children Missing Out? Comparison of the Peer-Related Social Competence of Only Children and Siblings. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 19, 299-316</p>
<p>Day (1991). Is there any socially significant psychological difference in being an only child? The evidence from some adult behavior. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 21 754-773</p>
<p>Mellor (1990). How do only children differ from other children? Journal of Genetic Psychology, 151(2), 221-230.</p>
<p>Watson & Biderman, (1989). Failure of only-child status to predict narcissism. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 69, 1346</p>
<p>Polit & Falbo (1987). Only children and personality development: A quantitative review. Journal of Marriage & the Family, Vol 49 309-325</p>
<p>Falbo & Polit (1986). Quantitative review of the only child literature: Research evidence and theory development, 100, 176-189</p>
<p>I would like to see the comments that others are leaving on the new web site. I bet the company running the site will only display all the positive ones.</p>
<p>The publicist may have to be creating positive comments for the site. I doubt there would be many such comments otherwise.</p>
<p>“For those wanting a more current or accurate perspective on only children, so as not to buy into harmful stereotyping, a small subet of the empirical evidence on the issue.”</p>
<pre><code> thanks Starbright. I was going to offer into evidence my own only child DD. AKA “precious darling” who is exceptional and fabulous in every way. 
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<p>"Despite the controversy surrounding the California mother who gave birth to octuplets last month, donations have been flowing in to a Web site created for the massive family, FOXNews.com has learned.</p>
<p>The Web site, thenadyasulemanfamily.com, was created by the Killeen Furtney Group, a Los Angeles-based public relations and marketing firm retained by Suleman following the birth of her six boys and two girls. Suleman’s publicist, Joann Killeen, declined to indicated how much had been donated thus far, but stressed that her firm designed the Web site for free.</p>
<p>“We put it together because of the massive public interest in Nadya and her family,” Killeen told FOXNews.com Wednesday. “We wanted to give people the ability to make donations and send comments to the family.”</p>
<p>Killeen said donations have already poured in, including books, clothing, cribs, bedding and diapers…</p>
<p>Killeen added, “All of this is pro bono. We haven’t taken a penny.”…
[FOXNews.com</a> - Web Site Created to Accept Donations for Octuplets’ Mom - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News](<a href=“http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,491130,00.html]FOXNews.com”>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,491130,00.html)</p>
<p>I’m watching Dr Phil now. I think she should be obligated to pay back hospital and state for money received for care of babies if she profits. </p>
<p>I know Whittier, CA quite well. How did she expect to find room in 3 bedroom house for herself, parents, 6 kids already, plus the newborns?</p>
<p>I wonder about the M.D., who says he did fellowship at B.I. in Boston. I’ve been looking for BI to post something acknowledging his presence or not.</p>
<p>I’m curious about how she can get disability for a kid with ADHD.</p>
<p>"In segments of the interview that ran on the TODAY show on Monday and Tuesday, Suleman had said that she does not get welfare despite the food stamps she gets or the government payments for three children with varying disabilities — a son who is autistic, another child with ADHD and a third who is developmentally delayed in learning to speak. She also said she is able to provide for her children.</p>
<p>Tuesday night on Dateline, Suleman said that she is also in debt.</p>
<p>“How much in debt do you have now?” Curry asked.</p>
<p>“Probably 50. Close to 50,” she said.</p>
<p>“Thousand dollars?” Curry responded.</p>
<p>Suleman nodded.</p>
<p>“How is that not like welfare?” Curry pressed on.</p>
<p>“Oh, no,” Suleman protested. “These are student loans. You consolidate the loans, you pay it back. We don’t pay back welfare.”
[Octuplets</a>’ mom: ‘I’m not being selfish’ - Newsmakers- msnbc.com](<a href=“http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29130147/]Octuplets”>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29130147/)</p>
<p>“The publicist may have to be creating positive comments for the site. I doubt there would be many such comments otherwise.”</p>
<p>Sadly, I disagree. There are plenty of foolish people who will think this woman is a hero and volunteer their sympathy (not to mention their donations).</p>
<p>The webpage labeled Nadya Suleman’s family is not about her family. It is her and the octuplets. One can make a donation via paypal. There is not a whisper of info about her 6 other kids.</p>
<p>I would like to see a webpage allowing us to donate to Kaiser. It is a sin for donations to be rolling in to her personally via the PR firm, with Kaiser stuck with a bill, with the state having funded her “disability” to the tune of $165,000, etc etc etc. She collected disabilty payments until she was pregnant with this pregnancy. They need to go after her for fraud and try to recover that money. The state or Kaiser also needs to go after a claim so that money is not wasted away again on things other than those that are truly for the octuplets. </p>
<p>I saw a clip from Dateline last night. A normal woman would not be so cool, calm, collected and arrogant. A normal woman would be a wreck. She would have worries about how she will be able to manage. She would have anxieties about where the 14 children would be in a month or two, how they would live, where they would sleep, how they would be fed and bathed and diapered. Not this mom. She’s going back to school, and its all going to be OK.</p>