<p>"Nadya Suleman, the California mother caught in a media frenzy after giving birth to octuplets, reportedly is looking to buy a home listed for more than a million dollars — news that follows on the heels of reports that her current home is facing foreclosure.</p>
<p>If she has so much cash, instead of putting any of her children in jeopardy with a pool, why not buy a less expensive home minus the pool and the expenses that go with a pool, and pay her parent’s mortgage off so that they won’t be homeless. Now there’s a thought.</p>
<p>VH, I thought about that, but I think grandma’s original idea about leaving was a better one. I am sure that they love their grandchildren, but they are not going to have minute to themselves.</p>
<p>Have to wonder if the house is part of Allred’s deal. And agreed-- more bedrooms=good idea, pool=bad idea. Also , she’lll probably need at leats 2 washers/dryers and a lot of bathrooms.</p>
<p>I saw Alred on the news this morning it seems to me she putting Nadya’s feet to the fire. Good on her. She basically said either she takes this offer or there is no promise that the children won’t be split up. I am wondering if Alred already knows something and we might be all privy to that in the next few days, b/c I think Nadya is so pompous she just doesn’t believe that something like that could happen. I believe this 1.2 million is not the house Alred is offering, b/c she was donating, not selling. Plus I would doubt Alred would say take the house with a pool even though you have handicap children.</p>
<p>Did anybody see her father on Oprah, or has it not aired yet. I heard he was on Oprah and lamblasted her and the doc for being irresponsible. Dad was on her side originally, I am wondering if she ticked him off by househunting and accepting all of this money while he is working in Iraq…maybe he feels she financially should pay them back and she won’t</p>
<p>I wonder when we will hear about her post partum depression.
I don’t quite get the Allred angle. I think such offers just enable Octomom.I live in a four bedroom house, but I couldn’t warehouse 14 kids here.
This story just gets more and more bizarre every day</p>
<p>You know, grandma’s house has three bedrooms. This new house she’s looking at has four bedrooms. So she has eight more children and gets one more bedroom? Yeah, that makes sense.</p>
<p>I know Whittier quite well. Never saw a house over 1M. For that money, one could get a house with at least 6 bedrooms. I think she’s going for the luxuries–pool, granite counters, etc-- rather than anything practical. Also, location right by downtown and college. I certainly hope she has no control over money, but rather someone with practical sense.</p>
<p>"But sometimes the desire to keep having children can be rooted in complex psychological issues dating as far back as one’s childhood. In certain cases, experts say, it can become a compulsion, an obsession or even a “baby addiction.”</p>
<p>While the current book of psychiatric diagnoses, the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,” has no entry on baby addiction, mental-health professionals say they see patients, mostly women, who desperately want to keep having newborns, even when they already have several children and aren’t managing their family situation well. That, they say, is a big red flag, no matter what term is used to describe it.</p>
<p>“It can be an addiction,” says Gayle Peterson, a family therapist in the San Francisco area and author of “Making Healthy Families.”</p>
<p>Peterson has seen several women in her practice who’ve been overwhelmed with four or five children, including those with special needs. Some of the women were suffering with depression or panic attacks and yet when their youngest child became a toddler, they wanted another baby. These women can be driven to have more children in an effort to make up for some sort of void or loss, usually from their own unhappy childhood, explains Peterson."
<a href=“http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29163803/[/url]”>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29163803/</a></p>
<p>I agree with my friend Nadine Kaslow’s quote in that article, NSM (thanks for posting it) that parents of large families need to have emotional resources as well as financial resources. Unfortunately, Nadya needs work in both of these areas. </p>
<p>Not sure I agree with the person in the article who has coined the phrase “Baby addiction”, but at least the acronym for a Baby Addiction Disorder (“BAD”) makes sense!</p>