Mexican Mother's 9 Babies Story Not True
The story of a woman in Mexico who claimed she was pregnant with nine babies has been proven false. Karla Vanessa Perez was reportedly expecting the world's first set of nonuplets, but when her hometown paper investigated, they stated Perez's story was a hoax.
Perez, 32, was supposed to have been pregnant with six girls and three boys, news agencies reported. Even Reuters picked up on the story, saying Perez was due on May 20 and would undergo a cesarean section. Yet local newspaper El Diario de Coahuila has reported that she had an operation to prevent future pregnancies.
"That woman needs urgent psychological treatment," Jose Salvador Gallegos Mata of the Mexican Society of Gynecology and Urology told MSN.
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She already has a set of infant triplets born in November, as well as a toddler at home. Perez told Mexican news Televisa, "Doctors tell me there are six girls and three boys. It's miraculous. I just hope that everything goes well."
This would be among the first set of nonuplets born to a mother, though the infants could have faced health problems, which could potentially be harmful to the expecting mother. Physical problems such as heart and lung development, as well as psychological delays could have resulted from the birth.
Perez and her husband live with her in-laws in Coahuila, Mexico.
"My husband doesn't make so much money as a tire fitter, so I think we're going to need extra help with hospital costs and everything," she originally told Televisa.
Nadya Suleman, known as "Octomom" here in the United States, currently has 14 children, including one set of sextuplets and another of octuplets. She has recently come under fire for the squalid conditions of her home, prompting Children and Family Services to intervene and get her help. The children have not been removed from their home, though.
