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Article: Raising quadruplets is a job and a joy for L.A. mom who refused to abort three of them.(Family)
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- Jet
- Article date:
- October 26, 1998
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Valerie Childress thought she was diabetic when she went to see a doctor in the L.A. suburb of Gardena a year and a half ago. It turned out she was pregnant with quadruplets who are now 9 months old. And does she need help!
"I freaked!" she recently told JET. "Because twins ran in my family, I figured anything could happen. My grandmother had had triplets and three sets of twins. First they saw one, then two and three. When the doctor said she saw four, I told her she was looking at the third one at a different angle."
Even more surprising, she was repeatedly told that it was best to abort three of the four because of significant risk factors and try ...