Money | 02/20/2009 11:45 am

Octomom's Father, Ed Doud, Lands on 'Oprah'

By The Staff at wowOwow.com

Octuplet mother Nadya Suleman isn’t the only one making television appearances. Ed Doud, her father, will soon appear on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" — a show his daughter reportedly wanted to book. She must be fuming, but will likely be more angry after she sees the show, which airs Tuesday.

According to excerpts released early from Harpo Productions, the 67-year-old grandfather questions his daughter’s sanity and calls the Octomom’s budding behavior "absolutely irresponsible," and says, "Now I’m no psychiatrist, but I question her mental situation."

We, too, questioned her mental faculties, which is why we asked a renowned criminal psychologist what he thought of Suleman’s actions. Dr. Stanton E. Samenow called Suleman’s actions "irresponsible" as well. Dr. Samenow went on to present us with seven ways the octuplet mother’s personality mirrors that of his criminally inclined patients.

When Oprah asked the octuplet grandfather what he thinks about his daughter’s website that begged the public for donations, Doud said: "You know what? She needs help. I say to everybody now — people — we do need help. Do not punish my daughter for what she had done and do not punish the babies, because they were given by God."

Meanwhile, a nonprofit group based in Suleman’s home-state of California, Angels in Waiting, has offered Suleman 24-hour care and a place to live with her 14 children. Within the next few months, Suleman may really need it, because Octogram Angela Suleman, who houses the Octotots, faces foreclosure for missing mortgage payments.

According to calculations released in the papers today, it would cost a whopping $135,000 a month to provide the 12 caretakers the children need.

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i recently read that this dr. had very high success rates for in-vitro. he was, also, touting some new miracle(?) that he had developed. since she was such a model subject, pregnant each time it was performed, i’d bet that he was doing it for free. she was a walking, talking advertisement for his ‘miracle-working’.

By carol grzonka on 02/23/2009 12:40 am

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Good Morning Lila…

I was thinking more along the lines of removing the whole works. It would be difficult to implant if there was no place to do so.

On the topic of the doc’s success rate: I believe I read in an aricle somewhere on this site that his success was way below average, but with Ms. Suleman, he implanted directly into the uterine lining, thereby increasing the chances of creating a viable pregnancy. Wish I could find the article again. It was something about the majority of fertility clinics not following the guidelines for number of embryos I think?

By Harley Gramma on 02/23/2009 11:03 am

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Kamrava may have some slayer technique, but when you compare his success rate with the success rates of leading hospitals and fertility clinics, he’s way below par. Maybe it’s legit, or maybe Kamrava’s trying to bring the rate down in favor of replacing the ICSI method with one of his own.

I don’t know how the CDC validates this stuff. Possibly they assume everyone is honest on the reports they file.

FYI, ICSI is the "old method" and IMSI is the new method. There is a signficant increase in viable births to the embryos implanted with the more recent procedure, IMSI.

It would be curious to know which procedure Kamrava used [or if he did something totally different.]

By Andrea Brandon on 02/23/2009 11:15 am