Well.. there are only a few things I can comment on here.

First... I just Plain do NOT agree with cloning AT ALL. it is ridiculous.

Secondly... something I have experience with.

Costs of labor and nicu stay.

I did not have insurance when Hannah was born. We found a hospital that had a MAJOR discount for cash payments... a lot of amish and mennonites go to this hospital so it is nessecary to have this plan. It was the most amazing hospital and when we have a second child... insurance or not we WILL be going to this hospital.

Hannah had to be admitted to the NICU with Pneumonia two days after birth. Luckily she was under my husbands insurance. She was there for 8 days. The bill for her stay was $25,000. We have to pay 10% so we are paying monthly installments for $2500. Not too bad. My care including all of my prenatal care was $10,000. $5,000 we paid before she was even born... and we are making monthly payments for the rest. so it CAN be done... AND I am a stay at home mom... but we are some of the lucky ones.

As for premies. I will forever be inspired by Evan. He was born at 28 weeks. He was in the nicu for 42 days. He went home on the same day Hannah did. He was SO tiny but he was a miracle baby. Being born that early he only had to be on the CPAP for TWO days... YES TWO days. Hannah was on the CPAP for just as long but made leaps and bounds as far as progress in the following days. H e went home before is actual due date.

We saw them at a NICU reunion recently. He is completely normal and healthy (although he lost his headful of thick black hair that he had in the NICU and is now bald like Hannah lol)

So that just goes to show that just because they are premie doesn't mean they are in trouble and just because they are on time does not mean they are out of trouble. I did not do drugs or drink or anything else while pregnant with Hannah. What happened to her was beyond my control... TMI... I had a VERY slow leak that no one knew about and bacteria got in and she got an infection.