MOTHER OF OCTUPLETS LOSES THREE.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. A British woman pregnant with octuplets whose story has been tabloid fodder for months lost three of the fetuses Monday, weeks after doctors warned her against trying to carry them all to term. Mandy Allwood, 32, was in satisfactory condition at King's College Hospital King's College Hospital is a primary care facility in the London Borough of Lambeth, referred to locally and by staff simply as "King's" or abbreviated internally to "KCH". It serves an inner city population of 700,000 in the London boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham. . But the remaining five fetuses were still in danger. ``Sadly, she has lost three babies, and the situation for the others is bleak,'' Donald Gibb Donald Gibb (born on August 4, 1956 in New York, New York) sometimes credited as Don Gibb) is an actor with an imposing 6ft-4in frame, best known for portraying the large, dimwitted fraternity brother "Ogre" in several installments of the Revenge of the Nerds , a consulting obstetrician obstetrician /ob·ste·tri·cian/ (ob?ste-trish´in) one who practices obstetrics. ob·ste·tri·cian n. A physician who specializes in obstetrics. , said in a statement. Allwood sold exclusive British rights to her story to the tabloid News of the World and hired a publicist to seek further financial deals. While details of the arrangement were not released, the newspaper has indicated that the more babies she bears, the more money she will receive. Allwood rejected doctors' advice to abort (1) To exit a function or application without saving any data that has been changed. (2) To stop a transmission. (programming) abort - To terminate a program or process abnormally and usually suddenly, with or without diagnostic information. some of the fetuses, which were conceived while she was on fertility treatments. In August, her doctor, Kypros Nicolaides, said Allwood had remained optimistic, although he told her ``there is an extremely high chance that she will end up with no babies at all.'' British tabloids followed the pregnancy in graphic detail. News of the World published sonogram son·o·gram n. An image, as of an unborn fetus, produced by ultrasonography. Also called echogram, sonograph, ultrasonogram. images of all eight fetuses on the front page. Rival tabloids ran exclusives about relatives of Allwood and about Paul Hudson, who would be the father of her babies, filling page upon page with details of the couple's lifestyle and telling stories about the other woman in Hudson's life. The case also sparked debate in Britain about why the 31-year-old woman - who previously had an abortion, has one child and no full-time partner - got fertility treatments in the first place. |
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