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53-Year-Old Mother To Twins Jokes About Retirement
A 53-year old woman in New York has become the mother to twin boys.
Sarajean Grainson talked about becoming a ‘mature’ mother on Thursday at North Shore University Hospital in Long Island.
The boys were born last month, Grainson has three children from a previous marriage who are now 31, 28 and 22 years old.
The proud mother joked that she wouldn’t need to go parachuting or to the Caribbean during her golden years as she would be too busy raising kids.
Her husband David, a former Roman Catholic priest, said that the babies are “a gift from God.”
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Twins Taken Into Care After Mother Jokes They Have Ruined Her Body
A mother was left angry after her twin babies were taken into care by social workers.
The 36-year-old woman had joked that her body had been ruined after having a caesarean delivery.
She and her husband had spent over £38,000 on IVF treatment, and became pregnant after five rounds of treatment. The twins, a boy and girl, were delivered in December six weeks early. The couple, from Essex, are named as Mr and Mrs N to protect the identity of their family.
Social workers took the babies into care within weeks after hospital staff commented that the couple were struggling to look after them.
Nurses told social workers that the mother seemed to have resentments towards the children, and had joked about the effects of the birth on her body.
When the children were taken into care, the mother lost her temper, and officials have commented that she has ‘anger problems’ which could put her twins in danger.
After a secret Family Court hearing last week - warned the first time parents that their six-month-old boy and girl could be put up for adoption. The couple are currently only allowed ten hours of supervised contact with their son and daughter per week. Mrs N has been told she will not be able to have any further children due to medical reasons.
There has been concern that social workers are now becoming over strict after the death of Baby Peter in North London.
Mrs N said: ‘Social services should step in where there’s violence or abuse but we would never hurt our children.’
Sextuplets Delivered In Record Breaking Time
The first ever recorded sextuplets for Northern Ireland have been delivered in record breaking time.
Midwife Sister Patricia Denvir delivered the six babies on Friday via Caesarean section within five minutes. The babies, which were conceived naturally and not through IVF, weighed between 1lb 7oz and 2lb 2oz.
Denvir said “It is a very stressful situation both for our staff, all of the staff involved and also for the parents, but it’s a situation that went very well. The mother was very composed - under a very stressful situation, both parents were very composed and they dealt with it very well,”
The four girls and two boys are currently in intensive care at Belfast hospital. Their condition has been described as “as good as could be expected”.
The birth of the sextuplets involved 30 medical staff, and was 14 weeks premature.
Dr Clifford Mayes, Neonatal consultant said: “This is both a happy time and a potentially difficult time.
“This pregnancy isn’t the result of IVF. It is an extraordinary thing to have witnessed but you are also struck by the fact that there are little babies in intensive care.
“We have planned very carefully for today and today went as well as we had hoped it would. The care of the babies would be the care we would normally expect for any baby.”
The birth of sextuplets is very rare, currently the statistics are one out of 4.5 million pregnancies.
Cute Twins Snuggling Together!
This is a real cute video of two brothers enjoying each others company. Very sweet!… the little guy really seems to love his big bro!
Mother Introduces Octuplets To The World
Nadya Suleman introduces her Octuplets for the first time - must see video footage of her eight newborns.
