Anyone see this? It was on WE. The title was pretty stupid IMO but a decent show. The couple had fertilty treatments and 6 kids, I think their names were Molli, Savannah, Bailey, Grant, Blake and Cole. Mom had heart problems and had to go to ICU after the babies were born. Here is their website.

I only caught the last 5 minutes. Kids were cute. Is this going to be a series?

I think it was just a one time special.

Why does it seem to be a pattern that families like these who have these gazillion kids at once are also quite religious? I didn't catch the first 15 minutes of this show, but did they address the issue of reduction? I'm guessing that the more religious families/couples are less likely to consider reduction, and therefore are more likely to end up with these higher numbers. The McCaugheys, the ones from Illinois with quints who were similar to this show (wife had to go far away to a hospital while the dad stayed home to work) are the ones that come to mind. Perhaps 3 does not a pattern make, but it struck me as a commonality.

My theory is, the ones who do selective reduction don't have huge litters of babies and therefore aren't worthy of their own reality show. These days, with technology allowing higher and higher order multiples to survive even though they are always very premature, no one thinks twins or even triplets are a huge deal. Who wants to look at triplets when the woman next door just gave birth to an entire soccer team? To get your own reality show with triplets, they have to be naturally-occurring and identical, which is still pretty rare.

As a result, you only see the couples who refuse selective reduction, and usually they refuse on religious grounds, which makes it sound like everyone who has a high-order multiple birth is extremely religious.

The Dilleys from Indiana were also religious. AFAIK they don't have a reality series but they have annual hour-long specials on ABC Primetime. I assume they won't have a reality series because they're all 16, so there's not the cute factor for a reality show. The Mccaugheys from Iowa have annual specials on NBC Dateline. The McCaugheys have been huge on pimping their kids out to all kinds of outlets, but I doubt they'd be palatable enough for a regular reality series because most of them have disabilities that are glossed over in short bursts but would be harder to conceal in large doses, which tends to undermine Bobbi McCaughey's gloating about what a hero she is for having them all.

The thing that killed me was the hubby getting a vasectomy at the end there. They tried for THREE YEARS and didn't get pregnant. I guess it could happen but...go on the pill? Or something? She probably thinks it's the least he could do after what she went thru. ;)

The McCaugheys have two children with CP, all the others are healthy and all are very cute. I see the McCaugheys on tv once yearly, as I do the Dilleys. When have the McCaugheys pimped out their children? I think maybe you are confusing them with the Gosselins.

That grossed me out. Why did they have to SHOW it? Ew.

You would be surprised. I am pregnant now and have seen many women online who had their first child only after several years and many IUI or IVF cycles. Then, after the first baby, they are just *poof*, pregnant again. Sometimes, your body just "gets it" after the first one. Now in these cases it was generally a female problem, not anyone with a female problem AND MFI, but it has been known to happen.

I couldn't believe how sickly the mom (I forget her name) looked in the days before she delivered. She looked so over it and so huge, I couldn't help but feel for her despite her choice not to selectively reduce. Whether I agree with them or not, I'm kind of in awe of the moms who choose not to reduce after finding out their carrying multiples. It's one thing to talk about how pro-life you are, but to become horribly misshapen for several months AND almost die in order to have all those babies...that takes some conviction. I'm still trying to talk myself into having one (one time!).

Is it just me or...did the dad seem a bit gay? Okay a lot gay.

I'm just amazed that she ran a marathon less then a year later!

The McCaughey's are from Iowa. Little town just outside Des Moines.

They have glossed over the others' problems, which range from severe learning disabilities to having to eat food through stomach tubes.



They've pimped them out to anyone who will pay enough, and it's been highly profitable for them. They're repped by Nashville's Ambassador Agency and take just about any money-making opportunity they can get. Because the kids don't command as much as they did, a good amount of their present work is relegated to women's rags and anti-choice rallies.

After having 6 they probably didn't want to take any chances. I don't blame them!



Me too, especially after the problems she had when they were born.

According to this article, Alexis had a feeding tube the longest, until she was four. She is one of the two that has CP. None of them have had to use feeding tubes for years. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22223331/page/5/
Other than going on speaking engagements, which I'm sure they probably do, and Ladies' Home Journal and Dateline yearly, where are all the other places they are "pimping their children out"? I don't see them nearly as much as other families with high-order multiples.

You're getting that information from an NBC site. For whatever reason, NBC and Dateline have chosen to paint the McCaugheys as a big, healthy family when that's simply not the case. The problems go well beyond Alexis' feeding tube and include learning disabilities for most of them. A few of the children were so disabled the family was getting "public assistance" as it's become PC to call it.

As mentioned, the family does not get the mass public appearances they used to get, but they do still get paid to appear at various anti-choice events and other fundamentalist Christian functions.

If the children are disabled they qualify for SSDI- Social Security Disability Insurance (not sure about the i). There is nothing PC about it, if one qualifies one gets it- rich or poor.

Brian and Jenny have their own website (not too surprising):

Lots of cute photos. This sextuplet family is in Lake Havasu, Arizona.

It only lists the one special. Wonder if they will do more?

Actually it would be SSI the children might qualify to receive. SSDI which is from Social Security would require for them to have worked or for one or more of their parents to be deceased or disabled. The two children with cerebral palsy might qualify. I'm not sure any of the others would. SSI does have an income component to the benefit calculation.

I am so amazed and proud of Jenny for completing a marathon a year after almost dying from heart failure. What determination she must have.

Quiverful?

I was always interested in the McCaughey kids, not sure why. I picked up Bobbi's book, "Seven from Heaven", at a thrift store once and tried to read it but it was pretty badly written and very goopy.

I researched the septuplets out of curiosity after reading this thread. From everything I've found, Nathan and Alexis are the only ones who still have severe health issues. The two girls with reflux haven't needed feeding tubes since they were four years old, and all of them attend public school now. That was from several sources (Google McCaughey Septuplets and see what you get); I ignored the NBC and LHJ stories because I knew those outlets were paying for access to the kids so they aren't going to say anything bad. I didn't find anything else about the children still having health issues; several articles quoted their pediatrician as saying they were remarkably healthy and normal. There were also a lot of articles that were at pains to point out that all of the septuplets medical expenses had been paid by the health insurance their father had through his work. That must be some kind of insurance, by God, because most insurance has a million dollar cap or something like that doesn't it? Those kids went through a million bucks before they were out of the NICU, I'm sure.

I did find this, which I thought was interesting:

I don't think they're Quiverful, just against abortion, especially selective abortion. How do you justify praying for a baby for the last nth years and then when God gives you 6, decide to kill 3 or 4 of them?

I'm sorry but god had nothing to do with any of these family have 6 or 7 kids. A drug did. They did this to themself. They know the risk and now the kids have to pay for it!!!

Another episode is coming in June. You see clips online at WETV website. Soo cute! However, they faced alot of criticism for putting their hand out. They asked for van to be donated and for the reminder of their hospital bill to be written off. The dad also solicated donations. They have a link on their website so you can contribute to their building a new house fund.

I have no problem with people having mutiples, however, I am sick when they expect family, friends, neighbors and complete strangers to support them and their children. That seems to be the trend to put up a website with a "donation" spot and hope people pay your bills, send you free stuff, build you a home etc etc. Couples that enter into fertility treatments and than opt to keep all the babies know they are in for the long haul and then whine and complain how must it costs really gets to me. The Gosslins have turned their kids into a "family business" and neither Jon or Kate holds an outside job and recently moved into a million dollar house and take three to four free trips a year. They also started out with their hands out when they found out they were having six. Sometimes, I think watching these programs glorifies having multiples and than people seek out these treatments because it looks attractive. Will be interesting to see what happens with "octomom' and her brood.

At least she is honest about it. I think Octomom was thinking the same thing. That she would get all these free things and benefits. That being said, I hope all the backlash and all the bad press octomom is getting will soon start to discourage this type of behavior.

I'm not sure if there is a new forum for this family's new show but it premieres tonight on WE.It's called Raising Sextuplets.Will anyone be joining me?Or have we had enough with the Gosselins(who I gave up because I couldn't post here when the board was closed lol)

I'm with you! I was also wondering the same thing!

Wow, Jenny is night and day different from Kate Gosselin. I never thought Kate was that terrible, but compared to this mom, she is. Jenny just had so much patience and really seems to enjoy the kids. I think I'm going to really enjoy watching this show. It is a show, right, and not just a one time special?

I agree about there being a night and day difference between the two mothers! I loved how Jenny packed them up and drove them to a play date. The other mother, does not drive hither and yo and a few weeks ago took her 5 year old tups out and keep bragging how she was "doing it all by myself." I also loved how Jenny enjoyed the babies when they were babies. She told use how many diapers. bottles and such but NEVER complained about it. She enjoyed and was thankful for all the help she got. Although she would say she was tired, it wasn't a constant "I'm so exhausted." They were both hardworking, loving and caring and caring people. Wow.....I loved that she was on Deal or No deal......how cool! I'll tune in again and here's hoping that this family as well as the Hayes family stay grounded and don't become a cartoon version of themselves like the other family.

I also enjoyed, believe it or not, their arguing. It is a fact of life most couples argue from time to time. You are two adults trying to forge the same path and sometimes their will be friction/disagreements. When these two fought, there was no belittling or slapping of the face. I think they actually listened to each other. I don't know if they have knock down screaming matches when the camera isn't around, but at least they can keep it together enough to fight nicely for the camera (which another couple can't!). And when she said that she let her hubby get the kids up his way and chose not to fight about it, I just thought that the wife of the famous couple would never have done that in a million years!

To whoever said that the Dilleys (I don't know how to quote) were religous, they may be church goers but their children are not the result of following Quiverfull. They have said that it was years of infertility & using a fertility drug (the name of which escapes me). What I don't understand is why are the doctor's not using more of their discretion if these couples used IVF or whatever. When I spoke to my dr about IVF (since I can't get pregnant on my own) he would have only implanted me at the most w/2 embryos. He said anything more would be too dangerous.

Both Keith and Becky Dilley had fertility problems. It took them five years to get pregnant and their insurance didn't cover it. She had to hock her engagement ring at one point.

The Dilley's,Gosselins and Masche's all used a drug to hyper stimulate their ovaries and then did an IUI(Intrauterine insemination)Much riskier for high order multiples than IVF where most Dr's believe 2 embryos is the max to implant(except for the quack Octomom went to)

I'm not really liking the dad too much here. I give the mom credit for saying that when he is watching the kids, that he can do it his way. But, really, his way of getting them up in the morning is totally for his ease and benefit, and with no thought to the kids' happiness. How would you like to be the last kid taken out of your crib, having had to wait 25 minutes for the other kids to be taken out, changed, and given a bottle and some cereal, all in a very leisurely fashion? I don't think that's right. There's no real reason why the dad couldn't just dump all the kids in the playroom (like he did after breakfast, so he could clean up), and then take out one at a time and get them changed and in the table.

And his attitude about changing ONE diaper when he came home from work? They need to come to an agreement that either 1) if you worked that day, you don't have any child care responsibilities when you get home (doesn't make much sense to me) or 2) if you worked that day, when you get home, you take on MORE of the child care so as to give the other parent (who had been taking care of them all day) a bit of a break. He had an attitude about changing one diaper, and she just gave in and did it. I think it's obviously easier to go out to work than to take care of 6 toddlers, so no reason at all for him not to pitch in when he gets home.

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Yes!

I just caught this last night in which the dad was trying to lose weight. I missed the first episode I think. Anyway, they are both likable, but I think I'm sextuplet-ed out.

Aren't Kate G, Becky D and Jenny M all in the medical field? I know Becky and Jenny waited years for their kids and Kate had been married less than year when she sought treatment. You would think being the the medical field they would be a little more careful and they all have the same mantra........"we just wanted one or maybe twins."

I hate the dad. He thinks it's so genius to take one kid at a time & leave the rest crying for who knows how long. I was kind of grossed out at the restaurant scene were the kids eating off of the table??? Gag

I have been following this family in the news for a bit now, and there is one thing that really irks me. When you read their bio on wetv and watch the clips on the website, it's obvious this family is very well off. That's great and all, but why did they have their hand out so much in the beginning then? So that they can shop at Gymboree (see clip on website) instead of Walmart?! Please! Hope that money is given to those who really need it from now on.
That being said, the kids are super cute and I hope they don't become another jon & kate!

Ok, in the latest episode, when they are sitting with the kids at the kitchen table, discussing the logistics of carving the pumpkins that night, WHO were the kids running around in the hallway behind them? All of their kids were in the table. I rewound that a couple of times and couldn't figure it out.

And, wow, way to just beg for some ER visits with the laissez faire attitude about supervision outside, Mom. I know the kids got away from Dad (I had to laugh, because my one does that constantly), but at least he was trying to keep them contained and safe. Desert landscaping, a BBQ, things like that do not mix well with toddlers.

Great way to start the session off with both of them fighting. That will really set you apart from Jon & Kate! LOL! They have to dip into their SAVINGS too! The horror! Once again don't get the mentally that the public has to help them financially. Maybe they are over it now. I hope.
That being said, I wish them the best. I think all three boys and Bailey are particularly good looking!

Based on the show, it seems that they are both working hard to financially take care of their kids. She is working night shifts an hour away from home, and he is persuing his master's, to advance in his career and earn more money. They appear to be trying hard to honestly support their family.

Just finished watching the Tummy Tuck/Thanksgiving episode. This is only the second time I've seen the show. What struck me as wonderful was the wonderful support that Jenny and Brian get from both of their parents. Also, their brothers and sisters are also super-involved.

The focus of this show is also different than J&K. The show is about how the Masche's handle the kids and their lives, as opposed to the children's activities. In fact the kids kind of feel like background. I can see similarities between the couples, but there are some substantial differences.

OMG. Yep, I came here to post that very thought. Well, maybe not gay....but certainly effeminate.

Cute show, but I'm not sure I could watch it regularly. I only caught the tummy tuck/Thanksgiving episode. I like Jenny and it's nice that they have such a great support system....but a little of the show goes a long way. Jenny's Mom annoyed me for some reason that I can't really explain, and her Father-in-law seemed like a bit of a jackass.

Again, these are impressions are based on only one episode. I could be totally off base.

BTW, I love the Dilleys. I like hearing about them once every couple of years and I think Becky and Keith seem like grounded and loving parents.

Can't stand them.

This is the family that said they shouldn't have to pay their portion of the hospital bill, based on all the free publicity the hospital got from them.

Is that true? That's awful if it is. I was liking Jenny because she let her children get dirty and muddy when they were planting the tree. That was a welcome change from KG.

It's true. They asked for diapers, a van, a hospital write-off, formula, and for people to donate to their dream house fund. I know someone said that on the show they seem to try to make an honest living. That may be true, but they had their hand out in the beginning for sure. They have also kind of admitted in articles that the fascination and interest and therefore handouts have died down since their 1st birthday. That's why I thought that if they can afford gymboree (see clip on wetv) and to invest recreationally in real estate (see their bios on wetv) then they can buy their own van. Don't complain about the cost of clothing sextuplets and then go shop at Gymboree. Don't try to keep the free diapers coming from others and then buy them what was obviously very high quality and pricy halloween costumes.
Lastly, I have spotted soo many obvious and big safety hazzards for the kids on that show. Hope they baby proof soon. The kids get cuter everytime though and they seem to love them to bits!

I wanted to like this family... but I just can't. I read Jenny say she learned "what not to do" from seeing the 'other' shows. Yet 3 episodes in she gets the KG tummy tuck and implants; both of which were paid for by the Network or donated services, not her.. Followed by getting to heal at a vacation home. Please. The 100 mentions of how "hard" it was to be away from the kids did nothing for me. She made the choice to get those things done. It wasn't some life or death surgery she had to do. Giving lip service to not wanting to be without your kids is meaningless when you're still willing to do it to get a boob job. Many women lose their boobs after having kids, and you know what? They manage to live without them... or pay with their own money to get them back without myrtering themselves for it.

Who doesn't feed their kids without plates? That bugged the hell out of me.

Keeping the key to the pool fence, in the door?! Are they kidding? Genius. I also didn't like Jenny telling the nephews did a "bad" thing and they shouldn't set a "bad" example. No, they didn't do something "bad". They were what 3/4? They did something most kids their age would do if not supervised right and had access to a pool that should have been more secure. She's damn lucky one of them didn't end up in there.

Who would go to a charity event becuase 6 babies will be there? Really, they're a draw?? I'd go to support the guy with cancer but seeing sextuplets would not make a difference to me when you're helping someone with a deadly illness. That's someone who should get their hospital bill taken care of and free surgeries.