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A Mum Of Four At 18! Teenager Has Her Hands Full With Triplets And A Toddler
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | July 19th 2009

Posted on 07/19/2009 8:37:50 PM PDT by Steelfish

A mum of four at 18! Teenager has her hands full with triplets and a toddler

EMILY ANDREWS 20th July 2009

It's hard enough being a teenage mother with just one child.

So when 17-year-old Sian Robbins was told she was pregnant with triplets - to add to the little boy she already had - she knew she was in for a tough time.

To make things worse, the babies - Taylor, Tyler and Levi - were born 11 weeks premature and all three boys had to stay in hospital in incubators.

Triple treat: Levi, Tyler and Taylor after they were brought home from hospital

Doctors had warned of complications and during the unplanned pregnancy Miss Robbins, now 18, faced the agonising choice of whether to abort one of the triplets to give the other two a better chance of survival.

But she refused, saying: 'I knew that I faced a higher risk of miscarriage but was determined to give all three of them an equal chance.'

Luckily the gamble paid off and seven weeks after their birth all three have been allowed home.

Levi and Tyler weighed just 2lb 6oz after their birth, while Taylor was slightly heavier at 2lb 14oz.

All three were so tiny they could fit into the palm of their mother's hand, but now they weigh 4lb each, to the delight of Miss Robbins and her boyfriend Callum Thomas, 19.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: Steelfish

Miss Robbins, now 18, faced the non-agonising choice of whether or not to have sex

DUH


21 posted on 07/19/2009 9:05:14 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Lucretia Borgia

Didn’t read the article to see that it was UK. Will not have to look far to find one we can blame on LBJ.


22 posted on 07/19/2009 9:05:59 PM PDT by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: lentulusgracchus

23 posted on 07/19/2009 9:09:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin ("A new Dark Ages made all the more terrible and prolonged by the sinister powers of science.")
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Aww.. they are beautiful.


24 posted on 07/19/2009 9:10:09 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: afraidfortherepublic

The gentleman doesn’t want to get tied down, you see.


25 posted on 07/19/2009 9:11:43 PM PDT by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: freedumb2003

yes we can support her decision to carry all three to term. I wish we could carry things a step farther, and encourage/compel people who can’t take care of these kids to give them up for adoption.

Young people nowadays can’t believe that there used to be homes for unwed mothers. They can’t believe that it was scandalous to be pregnant without a husband. All of that is beyond their comprehension. Yet, it was society’s solution to a difficult problem, to give those babies up for adoption to families who could provide for them. Can anyone honestly say that today’s solution, to just let these young girls go on welfare and live difficult lives is better for them or their children?


26 posted on 07/19/2009 9:11:50 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: afraidfortherepublic

What beautiful babies. The snoozing tyke with his fist obliviously stuck in brother’s face is especially cute.

As for baby daddy Callum not having a job, Her Majesty’s forces could probably find something for him if he can pass the aptitude test.


27 posted on 07/19/2009 9:18:27 PM PDT by atomic conspiracy (Victory in Iraq: Worst defeat for activist media since Goebbels shot himself.)
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To: atomic conspiracy

“Her Majesty’s forces could probably find something for him if he can pass the aptitude test.”

That’s intriguing. If England passed a law requiring that a male who impregnates an unmarried female would be required to immediately enter military service, I bet the preggers rate would go down real quick.


28 posted on 07/19/2009 9:43:15 PM PDT by Rembrandt
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To: afraidfortherepublic

So Cute!


29 posted on 07/19/2009 9:44:42 PM PDT by defconw (You can't reason someone out of a position they were never reasoned into to begin with.)
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To: Rembrandt

No, but the abortion rate would rise accordingly.


30 posted on 07/19/2009 9:49:45 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: Lizavetta
IMO it's a darn good investment for the British taxpayers.

Looks like they're being well cared for by the Mum. Nice looking couple and family, I wish them well and who doesn't need a helping hand now and then.

31 posted on 07/19/2009 10:19:17 PM PDT by duckln
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To: keats5
I have a friend who found herself pregnant after a one night stand with a co-worker 12 years ago. She had already moved to another state when she found out. She called the man to let him know that she was going to have the baby. He immediately packed his bags and moved to be near my friend...they married almost immeidately and today they have four children in total and are one of the happiest families I know.

That's not saying it's been easy, but they made a CHOICE to make it work...and sometimes you fake it til you make it...and they have.

32 posted on 07/19/2009 10:26:46 PM PDT by Hildy
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To: Hildy

good story

that’s four more western European babies that Britain certainly needs to counter the massive christian hating muzzies that are being produced there in mass


33 posted on 07/19/2009 10:41:54 PM PDT by Lib-Lickers 2
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To: basil

Hail St. Joseph.


34 posted on 07/20/2009 6:34:21 AM PDT by Texas resident ( Boys and Girls, it's us against them.)
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To: Hildy

Yep, that technique has worked for hundreds of years. It’s called putting the children first.


35 posted on 07/20/2009 7:33:29 AM PDT by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Well, if you think about it, a married couple where the husband works and the wife is a stay-at-home mom isn’t going to get a lot of gov’t assistance, if any. Now, if the stay-at-home mom is ‘single’ and unemployed, she’s getting loads of assistance, and if the boyfriend has a job, he can use that to help support the children in addition to what the mom is getting from welfare. So yeah, I suppose it would be more profitable...


36 posted on 07/20/2009 7:38:55 AM PDT by Hyzenthlay (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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