Diagnosis.

Hypotonia is a condition of abnormally low muscle tone (the amount of tension or resistance to movement in a muscle), often involving reduced muscle strength. Hypotonia is not a specific medical disorder, but a potential manifestation of many different diseases and disorders that affect motor nerve control by the brain or muscle strength. Recognizing hypotonia, even in early infancy, is usually relatively straightforward, but diagnosing the underlying cause can be difficult and often unsuccessful. The long-term effects of hypotonia on a child's development and later life depend primarily on the severity of the muscle weakness and the nature of the cause. Some disorders have a specific treatment but the principal treatment for most hypotonia of idiopathic or neurologic cause is physical therapy and/or occupational therapy to help the person compensate for the neuromuscular disability.

Hypotonia is a condition that can be helped with early intervention.

There is currently no known treatment or cure for most (or perhaps all) causes of hypotonia, and objective manifestations can be life long. The outcome in any particular case of hypotonia depends largely on the nature of the underlying disease. In some cases, muscle tone improves over time, or the patient may learn or devise coping mechanisms that enable him to overcome the most disabling aspects of the disorder. However, hypotonia caused by cerebellar dysfunction or motor neuron diseases can be progressive and life-threatening.

We shall see where this now leads. At least it's a diagnosis, and now we treat it.

Octuplets.

In a day and age where it is perfectly acceptable to openly discuss ones' ability or inability to have children, it's not surprising to hear about a woman giving birth to multiples. It is however,surprising, to see her entire story unravel after wanting privacy and having her name not released immediately after the birth. Her own mother blabbed about her to the media just two days ago. I have so many issues with this woman and her story. But the biggest being - she has FOURTEEN children under the age of 7. She is unemployed. She is single, which isn't necessarily a problem. But how does one who is unemployed raise 14 children financially, never mind emotionally?
I'm a far cry from infertile - God knows - but I read the blogs of several woman who have struggled beyond anything I could ever imagine to have children. Some still haven't achieved motherhood. It's a huge slap in the face to anyone who cannot have children to turn on the news and see that a woman has given birth to 8 babies. It's an even bigger slap in the face to read that she has 6 other children, and that her Doctor who doesn't have the balls to come forward, knew this and knew that he was going to transfer 8 embryos into her. He clearly was in this for the money, as is the mother. She plans to raise her children with the help of major companies and being paid for interviews. She already fails as a mother in my opinion. All 14 of her children are from the same sperm doner, who begged her to NOT have any more children with his genetic make up after the last of her firt 6 children were born. She clearly has no respect for the man who gave her 6 children, she decided she needed another 8. There's also no way in hell that she was only 'trying for one more girl' and ended up with 8. She clearly has no problems conceiving or carrying, she just seems to have trouble getting herself pregnant without being injected with the other necessary half to make a baby.
I'm disgusted by this situation. I'm sad for those babies, who will never be able to have the amount of attention they need from their mother. This woman is no Michelle Duggar (that's a whole post in itself) and she doesn't have the resources and family support required here. I really think that those 8 babies should be adopted out to families who cannot have children. But then again, what the hell do I know anyway?