I'll try to keep this vague since it involves people I know in real life. Two people who already had multiple kids (plus a minor son the father has nothing to do with from a previous marriage) just had another one in July and it had to be in the NICU due to coming out a month early and being born with a host of issues.
They have started crowdfunding - not for the cost of the NICU stay for their daughter - but because their truck is broken and they can't afford the few hundred bucks to get it fixed to drive to the hospital where the child is being kept. They both work pretty low-paying jobs - like one in fast food and one in a grocery store, and I'm not even sure how they could afford one kid, let alone several.
I'm sure this will bode well for how they will afford to care for their newest "miracle." I expect the next money grab for the hospital expenses to begin very soon.
I don't get why they needed another one. They just had one like a year ago, they have kids with both genders, they have more than one One Of Our Own
TM kids (both also have brats from failed relationships), and they aren't the "hurr durr we let Gawd decide our family size" religious types. Surely after having multiple kids, they are smart enough to know how babies are made. I just
