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Sextuplets could be state's first
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WICHITA — A Kansas woman carrying sextuplets is in a Wichita hospital, hoping to extend her pregnancy until the babies can survive.
Sondra Headrick, a 33-year-old Kingman County resident, has been confined to bed rest at Via Christi Regional Medical Center-St. Joseph Campus since Jan. 3. She and her husband, Eldon, are expecting three boys and three girls, The Wichita Eagle reported yesterday.
Fewer than 100 sets of sextuplets are on record; only about a dozen survived as full sets. Some of the children lived with vision problems, cerebral palsy or other health defects.
Headrick's sextuplets resulted from fertility drugs used last summer. The couple already have one child from a fertility procedure, 3-year-old Aubrianna.
If they survive, doctors think they will be the first sextuplets in Kansas history.
David Grainger, the Wichita
The babies — called babies A, B,C,D,E and F for now — are kicking at each other and at their mother's ribs these days. Doctors say they are thriving in their 21st week of development.
reproductive endocrinologist who supervised the fertility procedure in September, said he tried to prevent a multiple pregnancy and was devastated when it happened anyway.
Most pregnancies last 40 weeks, but multiple births rarely make it that long. The average delivery time for sextuplets is 23 weeks, said Van Bohman, a high risk pregnancy specialist.
Doctors are hoping to extend Headrick's pregnancy to 26 or 27 weeks, or more. If they are lucky, the babies would be born in mid-March.
Grainger and Bohman told the couple they could abort the pregnancy or reduce it by four, giving the two remaining fetuses a better chance of survival.
The couple rejected the abortion options after two weeks of soul-searching.
"Eldon and I don't want to portray ourselves as being any better than anyone else, or any more religious than anyone else who might find themselves in a similar situation and make a different decision." Sandra H.
Sondra Headrick expected mother of sextuplets
Sondra Headrick said abortion was not a choice — she and her husband had already seen six heartbeats flickering on the doctor's sonogram video monitor.
"You try as a mother not to get attached to the babies at that stage," she said. "But it's impossible."
She said it was not a matter of being for or against abortion rights.
"Eldon and I don't want to portray ourselves as being any better than anyone else, or any more religious than anyone else who might find themselves in a similar situation and make a different decision."
Their entire income is now the $27,000 Eldon earns by cleaning out storm drains for the city of Wichita. In November, Sondra took a leave from her job as a Medicare billing clerk at Kingman Community Hospital.
Insurers have calculated that it could cost from $250,000 to $350,000 each for the babies hospitalization, depending on how fragile they are when they arrive. Most of that cost would be covered by the couple's insurance company.
Doctors have ordered extra equipment for the neonatal unit, and have planned delivery drills and handed out extra pagers.
Exhibit blurs line between human, zoo life
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SALINA — It's like the MTV show The Real World only with animals, Adam Zaretsky says of his living conditions.
Zaretsky is one of the featured creatures in the "Workhorse Zoo" in Salina, a combination of art and science he hopes will cause people to rethink their relationships with other living things.
Zaretsky's home is an 8-footby-8-foot glass room he shares with albino frogs, families of mice, microscopic worms and an actively growing yeast culture. In the exhibit, Zaretsky wears a blue
plastic cape, purple latex gloves, pink bunny hat, shiny gray shorts, a denim-blue polyester knit jacket and knee-length red-white-and-black toe-socks. He is know as "Zed, species Homo sapiens."
"I'm actually trying to blur the boundary between what is human culture and what is reality," Zaretsky said, while stretched out on an ambulance gurney that he uses for a bed.
He never leaves the enclosure, using a red tarp fitted with a hula-
"This is sort of like The Real World or Survivor, but it's multispecies," the 33-year-old San Francisco conceptual artist said.
hoop as his "privacy cone" when he uses his portable toilet.
Julia Reodica, who was Zaretsky's teaching assistant while he served as a visiting professor at San Francisco State University, is the zoo keeper.
"As a serious researcher, I am finding Zed temperamental and unpredictable," observed Reodica, clad in a Boy Scout uniform with long, zip-up black go-go boots. "When agitated, he throws rubbish against the windows," she noted.
Art Center curator Stacy Switzer said when she read Zaretsky's proposal for "Workhorse Zoo,"she knew it would be
a perfect fit with a larger exhibit she had been working on for a year, titled "Unmediated Vision."
"We go with contemporary art. We're a little more edgy. The idea is the overlapping of art and life," she said.
Zaretsky received a $20,000 grant to stage his weeklong "man-in-a-glass-house" exhibit in Salina.
Next, Zaretsky heads to the University of Western Australia in Perth, to blur the lines of reality there.
"He's poised to be a very important figure in the whole area of bio-art," Switzer said.
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