Identical QUADRUPLETS?

[Canice]

Did you hear about this? Wow.


(06-09) 12:14 PDT NEW DELHI, India (AP) --


A 26-year-old Indian woman has given birth to rare identical quadruplets and the girls are healthy after their first six weeks of life, an Indian news agency reported Friday.


Shruthi Vivekanandan, a software programmer from the southern city of Madras, delivered Aditi, Aakriti, Akshathi and Aapthi on April 25, Press Trust of India said.


The babies were born 10 weeks early and weighed between 1.8 pounds and 2.2 pounds, said Dr. Meena Thiagarajan at Apollo Hospital, where the girls were born.


Despite their premature birth, the babies are healthy and swiftly gaining weight, doctors said.


Doctors have said there are fewer than 100 identical quadruplets in the world.

[jmarie]

Oh boy.....those tattoes are going to be painful!

[ChristieinMB]

Can you imagine standing at the back door yelling those names?

[jmarie]

Can you imagine standing at the back door yelling those names

How funny! :D

[Terri_A]

Is the pronunciation of the last of the names..."apathy"...as in, "I just dealt with this same issue with your three sisters, so at this point, I don't care what you do???"

On a serious note - rather amazing that one egg would split once and then both of those eggs would each split - really, really amazing.

[ErinM]

Is the pronunciation of the last of the names..."apathy"...as in, "I just dealt with this same issue with your three sisters, so at this point, I don't care what you do???"




*snort* :D :p

[Aubergine]

i must say, i find all of the replies mocking the names in very, very, poor taste.
(holding my thoughts beyond that)

maybe you folks need some more grounding in biology and genetics...this is truly a phenomenonal event.

even if it were through IVF--and it doesn't appear to have been--it would still be astonishing.

moreover, i just read an article about a set of quads which turned out to be 2 sets of identical twins... in most of these stories, the names seem to be similar...

i know how flustered we were when we had a DD and had no girl's name.

have you no respect nor compassion for this mother and her family?

[Terri_A]

I absolutely have compassion for this family! That's why I would understand the need to find some comic relief in a situation that many, myself included, would find absolutely overwhelming.

Please don't try to make us believe you've never poked fun at anyone before! I would find that idea VERY hard to believe.

[jmarie]

My mom had 5 of us children and it was a roll call everytime she wanted to address one of us. We used to tease her about it all of the time, finally we just started answering to whatever she called us, knowing that she knew our real name. I thought it was funny because I could relate.

No apologies here.
Joyce

[Aubergine]

Is the pronunciation of the last of the names..."apathy"...as in, "I just dealt with this same issue with your three sisters, so at this point, I don't care what you do???" .

i stand by what i said. moreover, i find this post more troubling than your first.

are you of that cultural background? can you not at all grasp that the sounds of a word/name, pronounced in their language as YOU may think, have no meaning in their language/culture? not as you are imputing, which i find a total disgrace.

would it ever even cross your mind, for one possible second, that a typically 'american' name, currently like, for example, Jacob, or Emma, (thinking back on very recent articles about baby names), might not be comprehensible in another language/culture; moreover, they might be somehow offensive????

how many other languages do you speak fluently? if you do, pls. reply in another one that you're fluent in....did your ancestors come from another country and emigrate here? surely at some point they must have. how did they grapple with the language issue?

[ChristieinMB]

i stand by what i said. moreover, i find this post more troubling than your first.

are you of that cultural background? can you not at all grasp that the sounds of a word/name, pronounced in their language as YOU may think, have no meaning in their language/culture? not as you are imputing, which i find a total disgrace.

would it ever even cross your mind, for one possible second, that a typically 'american' name, currently like, for example, Jacob, or Emma, (thinking back on very recent articles about baby names), might not be comprehensible in another language/culture; moreover, they might be somehow offensive????

how many other languages do you speak fluently? if you do, pls. reply in another one that you're fluent in....did your ancestors come from another country and emigrate here? surely at some point they must have. how did they grapple with the language issue?
I just don't get your anger. We're poking fun at unusual names, not a culture, the children are not reading this. I see no offense or harm. We needn't be too PC.

[badunnin]

how many other languages do you speak fluently? if you do, pls. reply in another one that you're fluent in....did your ancestors come from another country and emigrate here? surely at some point they must have. how did they grapple with the language issue?

Suz - es war nur ein Scherz. Ein Witz. Ich finde es immer noch ganz und gar lustig dass die Deutsche mich immer "Bettany" nennen. Ich finde manchmal Namen auf Englisch lustig. Auch Schwedisch, Japanisch, usw. Uebrigens, du sollst vielleicht lockerer werden. Wirklich. Alles so in Ernst zu nehmen tut nicht gut.

Trink 'was. Bitte.

[jlo_of_hotlanta]

Okay, I'm generally a lurker, but I did want to comment about the discussion on this thread. And I believe that, if no one takes offense, this could be a very GOOD discussion to have.

When I first opened the thread, I too, was disturbed by the comments made about the names of the children.

I understand that some of the ensuing comments were made because posters could identify with having that many children, etc.

That, however, was not the way the joke was phrased. Instead, it was poking fun at the names of the children ... which is not funny, because it was done in a crude way. In English, those sounds might seem "unusual." In the Indian language of their home (I'm not sure which, there are many languages spoken in India), it is probably not unusual.

So, by saying that their names are unusual is 1) crude humor and 2) not true.

If the humor was meant to focus on there being so many girls, it would have been funnier because that's the same no matter where you are ... and because you could conceivably understand that.

And yes, we can have fun with this situation, but rather than make fun of something because you don't understand it, it would have been more appropriate (and FUNNIER) to pick something else about the situation to empathize with. :rolleyes:

Ashley

[Canice]

When I read that story what struck me immediately was, well, the title of this thread: "Identical QUADRUPLETS"? I'd never heard of such a thing, and between the science and the challenges to the parents, I thought it was kind of amazing.

Since ALL parents seem to have trouble keeping their kids' names straight (I was the youngest of only three - one brother and one sister - and still my dad took to calling me "Jimmy" after going through "Erin! Sean! YOU...Jimmy!") I would definitely not give all my kids names that started with the same letter. But beyond that, it's kind of silly to call Indian names, bestowed in India, "unusual". Or that it's "too PC" to recognize that no, they are not unusual within their culture.

FWIW, my sister and brother (Erin and Sean) were considered to have seriously freaky names when they were kids (born in 1959 and 60, respecitively). Everyone called my brother "Seen" and my sister "Irwin," and now every fourth grade class in America seems bursting with Erins and Seans. I'm predicting Canice will be the "it" name of 2020. ;)

But back to my point: Identical QUADRUPLETS? How cool/amazing/HARD. I'd love to know how their relationships with one another develop over the decades.

[honeygirl1971]

I agree with j_lo re: the first several responses to this thread...

I can't imagine having 4 IDENTICAL little girls! It's so amazing that this is even possible!

[ClaraB]

When I read that story what struck me immediately was, well, the title of this thread: "Identical QUADRUPLETS"? I'd never heard of such a thing, and between the science and the challenges to the parents, I thought it was kind of amazing.
Doesn't anyone remember the Dionne quintuplets? Five identical girls born in Ontario, Canada in 1934. They were tremendous celebrities, although the way they were treated as children was heartrending. I think there are still four of them living today.

[Canice]

I thought of them Clara, but didn't recall that they were identical. WOW.

[breadmama]

http://www.cnn.com/US/9711/19/dionne.quints/

...what a sad story! And yes, it does say that they were identical.

[annagins]

There's a happy story about some identical quads here (http://www.baylor.edu/pr/index.php?id=23881). Their names were (are) Allison, Brooke, Claire and Darcy. They went to elementary school with me and I remember how exciting it was when the TV cameras were at our school filming them....which was often. They were very active, fun-loving girls.

[ChristieinMB]

There's a happy story about some identical quads here (http://www.baylor.edu/pr/index.php?id=23881). Their names were (are) Allison, Brooke, Claire and Darcy. They went to elementary school with me and I remember how exciting it was when the TV cameras were at our school filming them....which was often. They were very active, fun-loving girls.
Now these quads are called by the alphabet. Hey ABCD!!
ohhh, is that cruel of me, I think not. :D

[hlao23]

Now these quads are called by the alphabet. Hey ABCD!!
ohhh, is that cruel of me, I think not. :D

Interesting choice. You'd better be careful. Being called ABCD is an insult to people from India. ;)

Seriously tho'...it is...they call people born here whose parents were born in India "American-Born Confused Daesee (sp?) :eek: ;) :D

[AdGirl]

Interesting choice. You'd better be careful. Being called ABCD is an insult to people from India. ;)

Seriously tho'...it is...they call people born here whose parents were born in India "American-Born Confused Daesee (sp?) :eek: ;) :D

It's American-Born Confused Desi. A desi is what an Indian would call another Indian, kind of like "countryman."

It's not really an insult so much as a teasing label. It is used to describe an Indian person who was born in America. I am an ABCD :) Usually the one wielding the term is someone "we" call a FOB = Fresh Off the Boat. This is someone who grew up in India and then came to the States later in life.

As you can imagine, there are a bunch of stereotypes that each group assigns to the other. :rolleyes: I won't bore you all with that stuff here!

BTW, the names given to the quadruplet girls don't strike me as particularly unusual, but I'm Indian. :D Oh, and the way to pronounce the 4th girl's name is "AAHP-thee". Not apathy. :rolleyes:

[hlao23]

Oh yeah...fully aware. Trust me. I've just never seen it spelled in English. :)
I am endlessly amusing to FOBs b/c I know where to kick in little jabs about "those darn south Indians" (most of my friends are from Mumbai) or make silly comments about Salman Khan and his escapades...if people aren't used to me they so don't expect it. :D :D :D I am sometimes referred to by them as a sub-type of ABCD ;)

[ChristieinMB]

It's American-Born Confused Desi. A desi is what an Indian would call another Indian, kind of like "countryman."

It's not really an insult so much as a teasing label. It is used to describe an Indian person who was born in America. I am an ABCD :) Usually the one wielding the term is someone "we" call a FOB = Fresh Off the Boat. This is someone who grew up in India and then came to the States later in life.

As you can imagine, there are a bunch of stereotypes that each group assigns to the other. :rolleyes: I won't bore you all with that stuff here!

BTW, the names given to the quadruplet girls don't strike me as particularly unusual, but I'm Indian. :D Oh, and the way to pronounce the 4th girl's name is "AAHP-thee". Not apathy. :rolleyes:
Is it pronounced ABCD, or shortened? I've got to learn my terms.
Oh I know the FOB, many people use that one. A Chinese friend (very Americanized) could really turn on the FOB, she played pitiful, ignorant, I can barely speak English very well, when it helped her!

[AdGirl]

a-b-c-d. but we call FOB's "FAHBs"

:D