Re: Dionne Quins
From: Anna Meenan, MD (annam@uic.edu)
Wed Jan 25 21:34:39 2006
I read a biography a few years ago that said she put them in the laundry
basket on the open door of the oven, which probably makes more sense.
The doc insisted that no one touch them or disturb them except to change
and feed them. Probably the most sensible of all the decisions he made,
given the situation. What just blows me away is that the whole thing
was unexpected. Can you imagine being the mom, the dad, or the midwife
when those kids were born? Yikes!
The surviving sisters were recently given 2 million dollars by the
Canadian Government as their share of all the money made off of them.
--
Anna Meenan, MD
At Wed, 25 Jan 2006, cherivh@xdcr.com wrote:
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>No, the birth can hardly be blamed. It was handled quite well by the
>midwife in attendance. She put the babies in a box in the oven to keep
>them warm and called for medical assistance when she realized there were
>multiples. The local GP arrived before the birth of the final 1 or 2
>babies.
>
>Blame might well be placed upon that doctor, however, as he was quite a
>showman and managed to make himself a central figure in the removal of the
>girls from their home and the establishment of a hospital/nursery (with
>himself in charge) where they could be displayed to the public like zoo
>animals.
>
>Some blame could also be placed upon the poverty and desperate
>circumstances of their parents and upon their father who sexually abused at
>least 1 or 2 of them after they were returned to their parents' care.
>
>Cheri Van Hoover, CNM, MS
>Faculty, Midwifery Institute at Philadelphia University
>Port Hadlock, WA
>
>Original Message:
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>From: evsono@pipeline.com (art fougner
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>Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:51:57 -0600
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>To: ob-gyn-l@dns.obgyn.net
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>Subject: Re: Dionne Quins
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>Their adult life was filled with hearbreak. Although one would hardly
>blame the delivery, would they?
>
>art
>
>At Wed, 25 Jan 2006, GA12L@aol.com wrote:
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>>In a message dated 25/01/2006 16:54:30 GMT Standard Time, annam@uic.edu
>>writes:
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>>The
>>Dionne quintuplets were born prematurely at home in Canada (though it
>>was in May) and survived, without an electronic baby warmer.
>>
>>Anna, are they the babies born in the 50's? If so I watched a documentary
>>on them. They were turned into the main acts of a 'circus'.
>>
>>Gail
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>--
>art fougner, md
>
>"I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early."
>Lawrence Peter Berra
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