As per the Springfield fertility specialist, having eight babies shouldn’t be considered glamorous or cute, and whoever helped a California mother conceive octuplets was reckless by disregarding well-established ethical guidelines.

Dr. J. Ricardo Loret de Mola said the fact that Nadya Suleman already had six young children at home — all conceived through in vitro fertilization — didn’t make it wrong for a fertility program to assist the divorced, unemployed 33-year-old in getting pregnant again from a sperm donor.

“The decision of how large a family should be is a decision that each individual couple, or person, is going to make,” he said. “This is a personal and individual decision that families have to decide on by themselves, not by physicians. I don’t think that as a society we have reached a point where we’re comfortable limiting the size of a family.”