sextuplets

this morning, when one of the nurses came in to take a blood sample, i was watching this show about these parents raising sextuplets. it wasn't jon and kate plus 8. it was some other show literally called "raising sextuplets," which i thought was weird cuz hello, don't you remember jon and kate plus 8 and what a disaster that turned out to be?

anyway, so i'm watching this show and the kids are all 16 months old. cute babies transcend international differences, so the nurse immediately goes, "awww!" and sort of giggles.

"she had six babies at once," i explained, "like a dog." the nurse laughed and asked a bunch of medical things--how did she hold all of them in her belly, did she have a natural birth, blah blah. so we talked about them for a while and laughed a bunch about this couple who had six babies.

"where is she from?" nurse asked
"the usa."

then i tried to explain that the reason these people had six children at once was cuz of fertility drugs. she looked at me confused, so i tried explaining again but with different words. no luck.

"in cambodia, people only have two or three babies at a time, never six."

it's probably a safe bet to say fertility drugs have yet to reach developing countries.