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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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1 posted on 07/19/2009 8:37:50 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

And nary a job between any of them.

Britain is finished.


2 posted on 07/19/2009 8:41:15 PM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Steelfish

Girls just wanna have fun....

And we all pay for it.


3 posted on 07/19/2009 8:43:02 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR...Monthly Donors Wanted...I Upped My Monthly. Now, Up Yours.)
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To: Steelfish

Goofy girl needs to learn the aspirin birth control device. Hold an aspirin between your knees and don’t let it fall. Works every time.


4 posted on 07/19/2009 8:43:22 PM PDT by Texas resident ( Boys and Girls, it's us against them.)
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To: Steelfish

And she’s not even hot. Pointless.


5 posted on 07/19/2009 8:43:52 PM PDT by exist
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To: Steelfish

As long as they’re on community assistance, and have proven they will pop out kids like rabbits, they need to tie her legs together, put a cork up one or both of them, or chop of his dangle - since they are obviously too stupid to get govt-supplied birth control for her.


6 posted on 07/19/2009 8:45:22 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

“Girls just wanna have fun....”

It takes two to tango.


7 posted on 07/19/2009 8:45:33 PM PDT by OldNavyVet
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To: Steelfish
The Daily Mail is deeply disappointed. The drunken nurse on night duty in the obstetrical ward had assured them that the sonogram showed one baby with three heads.

What a comedown.

8 posted on 07/19/2009 8:47:09 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: Steelfish

Let me guess, Sian is on welfare, has been since before the birth of her first child. Thank you LBJ and your so called great society.


9 posted on 07/19/2009 8:47:54 PM PDT by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: Steelfish
The family lives on benefits in a two-bedroom council house in Portsmouth but they are hoping to be given a bigger house, although they are adamant there will be no more babies.

...

'I haven't got a job at the moment as I want to stay at home and look after Sian and the kids but I will be looking for a job soon.'

Aww... Isn't that precious...

10 posted on 07/19/2009 8:47:56 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: exist
And she’s not even hot. Pointless.

Oh, I don't know. Perhaps her young yob's hotlessness was even greater than her own. And of course, being a young guy, his need was great ......

11 posted on 07/19/2009 8:49:13 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: TruthWillWin

LBJ?


12 posted on 07/19/2009 8:51:10 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy (The time has come for someone to put his foot down. And that foot is me.)
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To: TruthWillWin
Let me guess, Sian is on welfare, has been since before the birth of her first child. Thank you LBJ and your so called great society.

I loathe LBJ as much as you do, but this one isn't his fault. The story comes from England.

13 posted on 07/19/2009 8:52:56 PM PDT by Lucretia Borgia (I will be happy to show Obama the same respect the Democrats gave Reagan, Bush, and Palin.)
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To: Steelfish

I haven't got a job at the moment as I want to stay at home and look after Sian and the kids but I will be looking for a job soon.

He needn't bother. The British taxpayers will be the providers.

14 posted on 07/19/2009 8:53:21 PM PDT by Lizavetta (Politicians: When they're not lying, they're stealing.)
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To: Drew68

They hope they’ll be “given” a bigger house.


15 posted on 07/19/2009 8:53:29 PM PDT by wastedyears (The Tree is thirsty and the hogs are hungry.)
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To: Steelfish

>>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.’<<

Hey, she may be stupid and promiscuous and a drain on the economy, but she chose not to murder any of her children — such murder would have certainly been applauded in lefty Britain.

It is a quandary but we need to support her ultimate proper decision while certainly condemning the series of decisions that led to it.

The truism is more true than ever: if you want more of something (such as premarital sex and single moms), subsidize it.


16 posted on 07/19/2009 8:54:47 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Texas resident
If you're Catholic, be sure it's a St. Joseph's aspirin.

Ba-da boom!---LOL!

17 posted on 07/19/2009 8:55:18 PM PDT by basil
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To: Steelfish

C'mon, you have to admit that they are darling! But, it is appalling that she got pregnant with the older child at FIFTEEN. And then she split up with his father. These triplets are from a different BF.

Why is it always a BF? Don't these baby factories ever consider getting married? Or, is these something in the British welfare rules that discourages marriage?

18 posted on 07/19/2009 8:58:25 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Steelfish

the unplanned pregnancy
_______________________________________

Caught it like ya can catch a cold...


19 posted on 07/19/2009 9:01:39 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Steelfish

God bless her for not having an abortion as she was evidently urged.


20 posted on 07/19/2009 9:05:00 PM PDT by kenth
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