Moms offer sober reality check on multiple births
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090213/ap_on_he_me/med_octuplets_reality_check"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/img.news.yahoo.com/util/anysize/130,http%3A%2F%2Fd.yimg.com%2Fa%2Fp%2Fap%2F20090213%2Fcapt.bc01bfa6db594679a5dcbff0aa6fecbc.octuplets_reality_check_ilrs102.jpg?v=2" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="Jenny Ferrill, 31, of Danville, Ill., plays with her 2-year-old quintuplets at their home on Friday, Feb. 13, 2009. The children from left are, Layne, Drayden, Kieran, Irelyn and Landyn. Ferrill and other parents of multiples say they would advise the California mother of 14 that donations that seem plentiful now will taper off after the first year; somehow free formula and diapers never morph into free shoes or forgiven medical bills. Requests for TV interviews dwindle. Offers to baby-sit, if they ever existed, vanish. (AP Photo/Robin Scholz)" border="0" /></a>AP - Nadya Suleman's daunting future of raising octuplets into adulthood may best be understood by the exhausted but proud parents of other multiples and the researchers who study them.</p><br clear="all"/>

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