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07-13-2006, 02:50 PM
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Woman has quads 3 years after triplets...and they live in a 1 bedroom apt.
They also have two older kids...11 people in a 1 bedroom 
My only problem is who is going to help pay for all of these kids and the medical bills?
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Mother Has Quadruplets Three Years After Triplets
By FRANCISCA ORTEGA, AP
LOS ANGELES (July 13) - Angela Magdaleno's husband wanted many children - she just didn't know that they were going to have this many.
Magdaleno, who had triplets three years ago, gave birth to quadruplets on July 6 by Caesarean section in what doctors said was a rare occurrence of multiple births. Though she used fertility drugs with the triplets, she didn't with the quadruplets.
The latest additions - two girls and two boys - were doing well Wednesday, while their mother, resting at home, said: "I'm happy because they're healthy and so am I."
Still, Magdaleno, 40, worried she might be overwhelmed with the work and sometimes struggles with mixed emotions about the future. She has two older daughters, too.
"I don't know if I'm sad or happy," she said. "I'm happy but, I don't know. I don't know how to explain it."
Three years ago, Magdaleno gave birth to the triplets after undergoing in vitro fertilization. She said her husband wanted many children. After their birth, she thought she was done having babies.
Then she got pregnant with the quadruplets. Magdaleno said she was shocked at the news.
"She wanted to run," said her husband, Afredo Anzaldo, 45, who lays carpet for a living.
Her doctor, Kathryn Shaw, a high-risk pregnancy specialist, said Magdaleno did well during the pregnancy and developed no complications.
The babies were born at 32 weeks - well beyond the 29-week average for quadruplets. At birth, the girls were 4 pounds and 17 and 17.5 inches long; the boys about 3.5 pounds and 16 inches long.
Shaw said the odds of conceiving quadruplets without fertility drugs are about one in 800,000. She's seen only one other case of quadruplets being conceived without drugs - 18 years ago.
Even more rare, the boys appear to be identical twins, according to their doctor, Soha Idriss, who expects the babies will join their mother at home in about eight weeks.
As of Wednesday, their parents were still deciding what to name them.
When the quadruplets come home, Magdaleno will have help from two older daughters.
All 11 family members will be living in a one-bedroom apartment in east Los Angeles. She said the living room is large, but she isn't sure what the family will do when the babies get bigger.
When the older girls are at school and her husband is at work, a friend has offered to help with the newborns and the triplets. "It's a lot of work," their mother said.
In the hospital, the babies sleep wrapped in blankets and attached to monitors and wires in separate incubators. They have full heads of straight dark hair and plump pink mouths.
Anzaldo took the couple's triplets to White Memorial Medical Center to meet their new brothers and sisters and to let Magdaleno get some rest at home.
They have accepted their new brothers and sisters, Magdaleno said. But at first the triplets weren't sure if they wanted the extra siblings, Anzaldo said.
"They wanted one baby and no more," he said.
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Bring back John Doe! Or at least resolve the cliff-hanger with a 2hr movie or as an extra on a dvd release.
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07-13-2006, 03:58 PM
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Re: Woman has quads 3 years after triplets...and they live in a 1 bedroom apt.
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My only problem is who is going to help pay for all of these kids and the medical bills?
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My problem is, why would someone want to have sex after having 2 kids and triplets. 
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07-13-2006, 08:03 PM
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Re: Woman has quads 3 years after triplets...and they live in a 1 bedroom apt.
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07-13-2006, 10:26 PM
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Re: Woman has quads 3 years after triplets...and they live in a 1 bedroom apt.
Sounds like fiction-turned-into-real-life: in an episode of Grey's Anatomy, a woman had quintuplets a few years after having triplets.
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07-14-2006, 05:52 AM
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Re: Woman has quads 3 years after triplets...and they live in a 1 bedroom apt.
It sounds like it's time for someone to call Ty Pennington...
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07-14-2006, 09:26 AM
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Re: Woman has quads 3 years after triplets...and they live in a 1 bedroom apt.
What's he going to do, wall off her uterus?
Luckily, right at that moment, an unconscious Argentinean fell through my roof.
He was quickly joined by a dwarf dressed as a nun.
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07-14-2006, 09:32 AM
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Re: Woman has quads 3 years after triplets...and they live in a 1 bedroom apt.
Extreme Makeover: Vagina !
A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies, the chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure.
Let's Go . . . To the colonies !
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07-14-2006, 09:36 AM
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Re: Woman has quads 3 years after triplets...and they live in a 1 bedroom apt.
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Originally Posted by AjayM
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"...her husband, Afredo Anzaldo, 45, who lays carpet for a living."
"All 11 family members will be living in a one-bedroom apartment in east Los Angeles."
yes, sadly, it appears that tax dollars may have to kick in and "assist" this family.
Let's see...I'm 45-years old, I lay carpet for a living, I'm living in a 1-bedroom apartment, and I have to provide for 7-people. I know, let's have quadruplets!!! What the????
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It sounds like it's time for someone to call Ty Pennington...
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I think she's referring to his Extreme Make-Over show where ABC and the show's crew come in and do a full make-over of someone's home. Sorry, I feel sympathetic for this family's now current situation, but there are hundreds of families that are way more deserving of this gift. It was this husband and wife's choice to have a family this large considering what they already had.
Last edited by Armando Zamora : 07-14-2006 at 09:39 AM.
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07-14-2006, 11:47 AM
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Re: Woman has quads 3 years after triplets...and they live in a 1 bedroom apt.
Luckily the ever-prepared Japanese have already created the 12-bed bedroom....
"Did you know that more people are murdered at 92 degrees Fahrenheit than any other temperature? I read an article once. Lower temperatures, people are easy-going, over 92 and it's too hot to move, but just 92, people get irritable."
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