Who else watched it today?

Oprah?
If you didn't, let me give you a little recap. There was a woman on, I believe she was 38. She got married, again I believe at 25 and started trying to have a family with her husband. She had a bunch of ectopics, and then did IVF (I missed how many times) and each time was unsucessful. Unfortunatly, due to infertility stress she and her husband got divorced.
She put her ideas of having a family on hold, but picked a date that she would revisit the idea, married or not.
So, the time came, and she decided she wanted to be a mother. She got donor sperm and did IVF again, against her families wishes (hello people...she's 38 yrs old!). The doctors were going to put in 4 embryo's, but she said only 3. All the embryo's took, and one divided. The woman was now pregnant with quads.
She thought about selective reduction, but decided against it. Her family really pushed her to adopt out a couple of her babies, and she decided that that is what she was going to do. The identicals. But, then she decided she couldn't give away half her babies, so she decided to keep them all.
Her family was quite rude IMO. Her sister and brother had short interviews and said, 'we didn't bargain for this'..etc....her father picked out adoptive families who could take care of the babies better than her etc...
I was shocked to see how this woman was interviewed and how her family talked about her situation. Maybe because I was playing on the floor with Logan I missed something, but it seemed as though she didn't want to ask her family for a thing, and her family, it didn't seem offered much, if any support.
It seemed by the interview that she should be ashamed that she gave birth to these 4 beautiful babies because now she didn't have the finances to raise them the way they "should" be raised. The whole talk was about how now she can't afford to pay for daycare, and she obviously can't work. (the woman was pumping and feeding her 4 babies! Can you imagine?)
She looked dead beat tired. (did anyone else feel this way?)
So, instead of her family opening their arms and giving her a break (physically or emotionally) it seemed to me almost that they felt like she put herself into the situation, she can deal with it. (Even though her sister was sitting in the audience, probably just to be on TV)
She wanted to be a mother. She had always wanted to be a mother. She tried and failed early in her life, and lost her marraige. Who's to say that she doesn't have the right to go for it again. She didn't CHOOSE to have 4 babies! Her last IVF's all failed. And she had many miscarraiges. Not ONE time during the interview(and remember, I may have missed it) did I hear ANYONE congratulate her on the birth of her 4 babies.
I was shocked! There are SO many mothers that have baby after baby after baby when they can't even afford the first one. They are on assistance, just like this mother most likely is. Why is this one such a huge deal? Do they really think it would have been the right decision to give HALF her babies away? I mean, how do you expect someone to do that? Do they think because she wasn't married that she didn't have the right to do IVF and take her chances? Was it because of her age? I dont understand why when married people give birth to high order multiples due to IVF it is national news, and everyone thinks its cute and great, but this woman was made to feel embarassed or ashamed. I'm quite positive the married couples giving birth to quads etc can't afford it either! But they just do!
I was waiting for Oprah to pitch in with SOMETHING seeing she gives randomly to the audience all the time, but was disappointed to see that she didn't offer anything, at least in front of the public. (Although she did go to her house and help bath, feed and dress the babies for a half hour) I remember one show where she gave a nanny service for THREE months to this woman who had an 18ish month old and a newborn just for letting them tape 24 hrs of her hectic life.

I just feel like this woman worked SO hard to get to the point of being a mother, it is a celebration! So, right now her life is tough, she is a single mom and I'm sure she can't even afford to go buy a pizza from the local takeout. She WILL get through it! I'm sorry that financially she is way in over her head (her ped's almost didn't let her come in with one of the babies because she had over $15,000 in debt from them) but I'm happy for her that she is now a Mommy!
If you watched this episode, let me know what you thought?