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Mar. 11th, 2009 10:35 amSome of the octuplets are ready to come home.
Officials at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, where the babies have been kept since their birth on Jan. 26, have been waiting to inspect the octuplets' new home before agreeing to release them.
Excuse me? Since when does a hospital get to inspect the home that a baby goes to? If the hospital that Edgar was in had insisted on inspecting my home before releasing her I'd have gone ballistic. On what grounds? Is there a case with DCFS? If so, shouldn't it be DCFS that's inspecting the home? Did the McCaughey family have to have a home inspection? Or the Gosselins? Or that family that has the new Table for Twelve show? (They have two sets of twins and then a younger set of sextuplets.) I'm not debating the wisdom of her having eight babies after already having six kids, or whether she's not being realistic about what her life is going to be like. But since when does a hospital have the right to inspect your home before giving you your babies?
(And frankly, I'm VERY surprised that any of them are ready to go home now. Edgar was a singleton and was two weeks further along gestationally, and weight half a pound more than the largest of the octuplets and she was in the NICU for two months. Most of the singletons who were in the NICU with us went home around their 36th to 37th week of gestation if they were born over 30 weeks. Under that, they were in longer. The multiples were in as long as or longer than Edgar for the most part.)
Officials at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, where the babies have been kept since their birth on Jan. 26, have been waiting to inspect the octuplets' new home before agreeing to release them.
Excuse me? Since when does a hospital get to inspect the home that a baby goes to? If the hospital that Edgar was in had insisted on inspecting my home before releasing her I'd have gone ballistic. On what grounds? Is there a case with DCFS? If so, shouldn't it be DCFS that's inspecting the home? Did the McCaughey family have to have a home inspection? Or the Gosselins? Or that family that has the new Table for Twelve show? (They have two sets of twins and then a younger set of sextuplets.) I'm not debating the wisdom of her having eight babies after already having six kids, or whether she's not being realistic about what her life is going to be like. But since when does a hospital have the right to inspect your home before giving you your babies?
(And frankly, I'm VERY surprised that any of them are ready to go home now. Edgar was a singleton and was two weeks further along gestationally, and weight half a pound more than the largest of the octuplets and she was in the NICU for two months. Most of the singletons who were in the NICU with us went home around their 36th to 37th week of gestation if they were born over 30 weeks. Under that, they were in longer. The multiples were in as long as or longer than Edgar for the most part.)