received this forward mail from joceyln.. yahoo-ed it and found e news to be true! *shocked* i think she's suay.. pregnant 3 times.. but 2 times kenna triplets! omg.. i think i will faint if i kenna triplets.. how to handle 3 at a time??
She looks like a proud teenager posing with her little brother and six
sisters for a family photograph.
But incredibly Pamela Villarruel is the mother of all these seven
children.
And she gave birth to all of them by the time she was 16.
Pamela has more children than any other teenage mum in the world and
doctors have described her as a 'scientific rarity'.
She gave birth to her son when she was 14 then had two sets of triplets in
two years.
'Every day is a struggle but I wouldn't change anything,' says Pamela, who
is just 17. 'They are my little miracles. It's exhausting, but the most
important thing is that all my children are happy and healthy.
I'll be the best mum I can possibly be.'
Pamela, the youngest of six children, is currently living with her mother
Magdalena, a cleaner, and her disabled dad Jose in Leones, a farming town
300 miles from the Argentine capital Buenos Aires. She no longer sees the
three fathers of her children.
Until she was 12 Pamela was just like any schoolgirl, excelling in maths
and gossiping about clothes and the latest pop bands. Then she met a local
boy. 'I thought I was in love and wanted to be close to him so we had
sex,' she says. 'I was almost 13 when we did it for the first time. Then I
fell pregnant.
'I was terrified as I was so young, but my mum was very supportive, as she
had her first baby when she was still young. But I had a miscarriage at
three months, which was very frightening. ' Pamela's mother told her about
the importance of contraception, yet five months later she was pregnant
again by a new boyfriend, 17-year-old Miguel Gonzalez, from the nearby
town of Marcos Juarez.
'I never thought I'd get pregnant again and didn't take precautions, '
says Pamela. 'I was in love with Miguel and thought we would be together
forever. I was naive.'
Abortion is illegal in Argentina, except in extreme cases such as rape, so
Pamela, then 13, had to have the baby. Her son Lisandro was born in June
2005 when she was 14.
'Miguel moved in with us in and tried to support me but it was difficult
and after six weeks he went back to his family,' she says.
Soon afterwards she began seeing a new boyfriend, 18-year-old Ariel
Benitez, an unemployed builder. Within weeks she was pregnant again. 'I
really loved him and he loved me too,' she says. 'I know I should have
been using contraception but stupidly we didn't. I can't really explain
why not.'
But Pamela was stunned when a scan showed she was expecting triplets. 'I
couldn't believe it,' she says. 'Nobody in my family had even had twins
before.'
Pamela went into labour two months prematurely. In July 2006 she gave
birth by caesarean section to three girls - Ludmila, Macarena and Candela
- weighing 3lb 12oz, 3lb 14oz and 3lb 15oz. She says: 'It was a very
complicated birth. I suffered a lot afterwards.
I was so ill I thought I was going to die.
'Ariel stayed with me through my pregnancy but he left when the triplets
were four or five months old.' Neighbours and friends rallied round and
donated clothes, nappies, shoes and milk. Soon Pamela started seeing a new
teenage boyfriend, Franco, and her frantic mother inquired about getting
her sterilised.
Magdalena was told she would need a special order from a judge as Pamela
was under 21, so instead the young mum began having contraceptive
injections. But after forgetting to have just one jab Pamela became
pregnant again and a scan revealed she was expecting another set of
triplets.
She says: 'It was much more of a shock as I realised how difficult it
would be with seven children.' And last month Pamela gave birth to
Martina, Morena and Magali - weighing between 3lb 11oz and 3lb 13oz - five
days before her 17th birthday.
Dr Jose Alberto Oviedo, who supervised the birth of all the triplets, is
convinced Pamela's incredible brood are a world first. 'There are no
recorded cases of any woman giving birth to two sets of triplets
consecutively without IVF treatment,' he says. 'As far as I know there are
no girls her age with as many children. The odds are astronomical. '
Her triplets are non-identical - each time Pamela produced three eggs,
rather than the usual one, which were all fertilised.
The council in Leones built Pamela a small house after she gave birth to
her first set of triplets, but with seven young children to look after
Pamela moved back in with her mother.
It's a tight squeeze - along with her seven children, her mother and
father, two of her brothers are still at home and the family get by on
social security of £80 a month. 'With seven children I need a lot of help
but I hope to move back into my little house.' she says.
'I don't have time for boys now and I'm single. But if I met a boy I would
make sure I was careful and don't plan to have more children. I'm going to
have a coil fitted.'
A DAY IN THE STRIFE
7am Pamela gets baby food breakfast for eldest triplets and Lisandro.
7.30am Change young triplets' nappies and dress the four children.
8am Breast-feed young ones, topped up with powdered milk.
8.30 amFour eldest taken to nursery.
9am Change nappies. The six triplets are each changed four or five times a
day and Lisandro twice.
10am Put on the first wash of day.
11am Cup of tea and a biscuit before cleaning the house.
12noon Second feed for the youngest triplets.
12.30pm Four eldest back from the nursery. Now seven to look after.
1-2pm Change nappies. Feed the older triplets and Lisandro.
2.30pm Pamela has lunch while babies sleep.
4-5pm Children all awake again. Feed all seven and change nappies.
6pm Second clothes wash.
7-8pm Feed youngest triplets and Lisandro. More nappy changes 9pm Bathtime
for all seven in two batches.
10pm Pamela's dinner and a children's story 11pm Bedtime.
1am Youngest triplets are fed.
2am Nappy changes.
4am Youngest fed again. More nappy changes and finally some sleep.
'They are my little miracles and I'll be the best mum I can possibly be'
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