Woman Delivers Eight Babies

[PMedMoe]

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BELLFLOWERS, Calif. - Doctors methodically delivered a mother's seven babies, five boys and two girls, just as they had repeatedly rehearsed.

Then came the eighth. The surprising sixth boy and eighth child made Monday's mass birth not just remarkable but historic.

"It is quite easy to miss a baby when you're anticipating seven," said Dr. Harold Henry, chief of maternal and fetal medicine and one of 46 doctors, nurses and assistants who delivered the children by Caesarean section at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center. "Ultrasound doesn't show you everything."

Just five minutes after the first birth, the unexpected eighth baby came out at 10:48 a.m.

"My eyes were wide," Dr. Karen Maples said.

It was just the second live octuplets birth in U.S. history.

Doctors said the babies, who weighed between 1 pound, 8 ounces, and 3 pounds, 4 ounces, were born nine weeks premature but described their condition as stable. Two were placed on ventilators and a third needed oxygen.

"The babies are all doing well and the mom is also doing well," Henry said. "There were no complications from the surgery to the best of my knowledge."

Hospital officials would not release the mother's name nor say whether she had used fertility drugs.

They did say she planned to breast feed all the children.



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[kkwd]

Should you congratulate this lady or send her your condolences?  ;D
Ach mein Gott, that's a instant family ... times 3 or so.

 

[Journeyman]

Good god woman, it's a vagina not a clown car!

;D

 

[Marshall]

Good god woman, it's a vagina not a clown car!

;D

Lmao.. I just got a very odd and twisted scene playing in my head because of this.

 

[PMedMoe]

Good god woman, it's a vagina uterus not a clown car!

That's better. 

 

[Marshall]

Im just wondering how big this woman's stomach must have been? And how intense her cravings must have been. haha

 

[Spanky]

Well that what happens when El Producto meets Fertile Myrtle

 

[aesop081]

Good god woman, it's a vagina not a clown car!

;D

 

[Lil_T]

I'm curious how she plans to breastfeed all 8 of those kids - is she part dog?  Or does she plan to never sleep again?  Speaking from experience here, breastfed babies eat for about 20 - 30 minutes every 2-3 hours.  Do the math - even with tandem nursing...  yeesh - good luck to her.  She's going to need it.

 

[Nfld Sapper]

My guess.......


FORMULA.

 

[Lil_T]

clearly.  Had to laugh at her ambition though.

 

[karl28]

          Man oh man going into labor 8 times in one day give that women a medal or something .   

 

[kkwd]

They were born by Caesarean section. It must have been quite the experience to be fishing around in her looking for another bundle of joy and another and another.

 

[GDawg]

Must have had a small dose of Powerthirst!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRuNxHqwazs

 

[PMedMoe]

Man oh man going into labor 8 times in one day give that women a medal or something .     

Not sure if you were joking or not, but I'm pretty sure one would only go into labour once.  Besides, it was a planned C-section, just the eighth baby that was a surprise.

 

[ENGINEERS WIFE]

Mother of octuplets obsessed with having kids: mom
Updated Sat. Jan. 31 2009 9:53 AM ET

The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES -- The woman who gave birth to octuplets this week conceived all 14 of her children through in vitro fertilization, is not married and has been obsessed with having children since she was a teenager, her mother said.

Angela Suleman told The Associated Press she was not supportive when her daughter, Nadya Suleman, decided to have more embryos implanted last year.

"It can't go on any longer," she said in a phone interview Friday. "She's got six children and no husband. I was brought up the traditional way. I firmly believe in marriage. But she didn't want to get married."

Nadya Suleman, 33, gave birth Monday in nearby Bellflower, Calif. She was expected to remain in hospital for at least a few more days, and her newborns for at least a month.

A spokeswoman at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center said the babies were doing well and seven were breathing unassisted.

While her daughter recovers, Angela Suleman is taking care of the other six children, ages two through seven, at the family home in Whittier, about 25 kilometres east of downtown Los Angeles.

She said she warned her daughter that when she gets home from the hospital, "I'm going to be gone."

Angela Suleman said her daughter always had trouble conceiving and underwent in vitro fertilization treatments because her fallopian tubes are "plugged up."

There were frozen embryos left over after her previous pregnancies and her daughter didn't want them destroyed, so she decided to have more children.

Her mother and doctors have said the woman was told she had the option to abort some of the embryos and, later, the fetuses. She refused.

Her mother said she does not believe her daughter will have any more children.

"She doesn't have any more (frozen embryos), so it's over now," she said. "It has to be."

Nadya Suleman wanted to have children since she was a teenager, "but luckily she couldn't," her mother said.

"Instead of becoming a kindergarten teacher or something, she started having them, but not the normal way," he mother said.

Her daughter's obsession with children caused Angela Suleman considerable stress, so she sought help from a psychologist, who told her to order her daughter out of the house.

"Maybe she wouldn't have had so many kids then, but she is a grown woman," Angela Suleman said. "I feel responsible and I didn't want to throw her out."

Yolanda Garcia, 49, of Whittier, Calif., said she helped care for Nadya Suleman's autistic son three years ago.

"From what I could tell back then, she was pretty happy with herself, saying she liked having kids and she wanted 12 kids in all," Garcia told the Long Beach Press-Telegram.

"She told me that all of her kids were through in vitro, and I said 'Gosh, how can you afford that and go to school at the same time?"' she added. "And she said it's because she got paid for it."

Garcia said she did not ask for details.

Nadya Suleman holds a 2006 degree in child and adolescent development from California State University, Fullerton, and as late as last spring she was studying for a master's degree in counselling, college spokeswoman Paula Selleck told the Press-Telegram.

Her fertility doctor has not been identified. Her mother told the Los Angeles Times all the children came from the same sperm donor but she declined to identify him.

Birth certificates reviewed by The Associated Press identify a David Solomon as the father for the four oldest children. Certificates for the other children were not immediately available.

The news that the octuplets' mother already had six children sparked an ethical debate. Some medical experts were disturbed to hear that she was offered fertility treatment, and troubled by the possibility that she was implanted with so many embryos.

Others worried that she would be overwhelmed trying to raise so many children and would end up relying on public support.

The eight babies -- six boys and two girls -- were delivered by cesarean section weighing between one pound, eight ounces and three pounds, four ounces. Forty-six physicians and staff assisted in the deliveries.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090131/octuplet_mom_090131/20090131?hub=Health

 

[geo]

This is something... a single mother who already has six kids... gets herself pregnant VIA alternate means.. and gives birth to eight additional kids.  So now we have a single lady who does not work & is now saddled with FOURTEEN KIDS.

This is going to be one hell of a welfare case...

Jeezus H Christ.

 

[Lil_T]

I feel bad for those kids.  What the heck was she thinking?

 

[kkwd]

She wanted lots of kids. A dozen as it says in the article. Now she should be happy and have no more babies. At least there are no embryo-sickles left to take another try at it.

 

[geo]

kkwd....
She wanted lots of kids ?
We're not talking puppies here

she had SIX kids before all this started.
By today's standsrds, that is A LOT - How big a place do you need to keep & raise SIX kids ?

Now she has FOURTEEN kids - how big a place do you kneed to keep & raise FOURTEEN kids ?

She's single & alone.  Am positive that her family isn't all that well off... which means that the state will have to bail her out for the next 18-20 years.