You know, awhile back, I saw a lot of news reports on a woman who was pregnant with 8 children.  I figured that the media frenzy would die down.  Boy, did I drop the ball on the Octomom.  She could’ve been like the pregnant man or the tree man of Java, except more pregnant and less warty.  But I thought she’d go away, so when I saw reports of a Tunisian woman who is pregnant with 12 children, I knew I had to blog about her just in case she becomes the African Octomom, except nobody knows this woman’s name yet (her husband is called Marwan).

Well, I guess she’d be a Dodecamom, technically.  She’d also deliver the world’s largest litter of children if all of them survive.  Odds are, some of them (or most of them, or all of them) won’t.  Which, in a way, that’s very sad.

I can understand the desire to have a child so badly that you resort to fertility treatments, and I can understand being opposed to terminating pregnancies, but in this kind of situation?  You’re kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place, if only because you want some of the children to survive and be healthy, and the mother to not die in the process of trying to deliver a litter of children.

Tags: Tunisia, woman pregnant with 12 babies, unusual health news, odd pregnancies, Marwan, Gafsa, fertility drugs

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