I have posted about this whole “octo-mom” thing.  I admit I was judgemental.  I’ll say it.  I was and we all have been.  There is a great momversation about it and the whole judging mothers thing that all of us like to do.  It’s natural but really isn’t all that productive.  Rebecca really made me think about it from a different perspective and I appreciate that. 

I blame the media for so much of what is happening.  Again, these are all real people involved and we don’t know what the outcome of this is going to be for those innocent children.  It is awful that they have to have their young life invaded by media speculation and world-wide judgement of their mother.  That just sucks. 

Hubby and I had decided that we were going to do IVF this fall.  All of this media circus surrounding Ms. Suleman and her babies has caused my husband great pause about undergoing IVF.  Part of him thinks we should be happy and feel blessed with the children we have.  I agree to some point.  I know our situation is different as we are infertile and Ms. Suleman was/is not–she is just single and that is something very different.  Our cases are not parallel in any way.  But we have to wonder if there will be a backlash against those of us who do conceive through IVF.  Will it all of a sudden be something we don’t talk about anymore?  That would suck. 

We talked about it and have decided to pursue it–because we want more children and we would like to exhaust all avenues attempting to create a biological child.  We also plan to adopt if we cannot conceive a biological child.  We know what we want and I know it isn’t 8 kids at once (or at all for that matter).  And, I’ll continue to talk about our avenues for creating the family we want.