SoCal Mom Gives Birth to Octuplets

[Lux]

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Aparna Atluru, HappyNews Staff

JANUARY 28, 2009
A southern California mother experienced the miracle of birth eight times in 5 minutes. The women gave birth to octuplets — only the second live set ever.

The women had six boys and two girls at Kaiser Permanante Bellflower Medical Center in Southern California. The hospital had originally scheduled the cesarean section expecting only seven babies. Even the doctors were not expecting the eighth baby, which came as a surprise at the time of delivery. All of the babies weighed between 1.8 and 3.4 pounds. The babies will stay at the hospital for at least two months, while the mother should be released in a week.

”The babies are all doing well and the mom is also doing well. There were no complications from the surgery to the best of my knowledge,” said Dr. Harold Henry, chief of maternal and fetal medicine at the hospital.

[maire]

Wow, I thought having one at a time was hard work. Imagine trying to cope with 8!!!!!!

[Lux]

Jan 31, 2009 6:52:01 GMT 12 maire said:

Wow, I thought having one at a time was more than enough. Imagine trying to cope with 8!!!!!!

Mentioned on the news that mother is going to breast feed too, my son asked hows she going to do that...I have no idea!

[kokonutwoman]

Jan 31, 2009 6:53:10 GMT 12 Lux said:

Jan 31, 2009 6:52:01 GMT 12 maire said:

Wow, I thought having one at a time was more than enough. Imagine trying to cope with 8!!!!!!

Mentioned on the news that mother is going to breast feed too, my son asked hows she going to do that...I have no idea!

All I can say is ouch - eight of them.

[misilon]

its easy for her to feed them

I had to express lots of my milk cos my 9lb baby couldnt drink it all

they fed it to the prem babies and other babies who were bottle and tube fed

this ladies babies are only little and they may not be able to latch on to her

its hard enuff for normal size babies to do that

express pump,.. many hands on deck,... and rotation will be the way for her to go


mummy aint going anywhere in a hurry

and at least she will be able to give her babies a good start

[misilon]

ooooo yuk 14 children all under 7 or 8 and no daddy

wow!!thats not such a good thing I think

[treeman]

Thats one hell of a litter ;D

[sparrow]

Jan 31, 2009 18:57:22 GMT 12 misilon said:

ooooo yuk 14 children all under 7 or 8 and no daddy

wow!!thats not such a good thing I think

Yeah - this is a really weird story. I saw her parents on the news. They're looking after the older ones at the moment. The parents looked fricking exhausted. And now there are more kids without a father? Hmmmm.

[Lux]

Its a bit of an unusual hobby, my mum won't let me store anything at her house!