Octuplets born in Southern California
Posted on: Monday, 26 January 2009, 20:41 CST
Mother and babies are doing well following the birth Monday of octuplets in Southern California, a doctor who helped with the delivery said.
A medical team of 46 people was involved in the delivery at a Kaiser Permanente hospital in Bellflower, Calif., the Los Angeles Times reported. Doctors planned in advance to deliver the babies by Caesarian section, but they were only expecting seven babies, the newspaper said -- so they were quite surprised when an eighth baby appeared.
Dr. Karen Maples said her eyes got to be the size of saucers
when she saw number eight.
The orchestrated delivery went off without a hitch,
Dr. Harold Henry said. 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.
Henry said the delivery team executed two dry runs in advance of the surgery.
The babies, six boys and two girls, were delivered between 10:43 a.m. and 10:48 a.m. PST, the newspaper said.
The mother -- whose name was not immediately disclosed -- is expected to be discharged from the hospital in about a week. The newborns -- who weighed between 1 pound, 15 ounces and 3 pounds, 4 ounces -- are likely to remain hospitalized for at least two months.
Dr. Richard Paulson, director of the fertility program at the USC Medical School, told the Times the birth of octuplets is unbelievably rare.
Fertility experts regard such births as a serious complication,
he said.
We do not ever intend to give someone octuplets.
The first known case of octuplet birth in the United States occurred in 1998 in Houston. Seven of those octuplets survive.
Source: United Press International
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Posted by SoCalGal on 02/02/2009, 08:52 This person should have been obsessed with having a tubal ligation. Has unmitigated gall trying to sell her story for $2mil, hope the state takes all of her kids, have you seen the taped up broken window at the home she lives in?? Not to mention she is Iraqi. Her father is returning to his homeland to take a job as an interpreter. Come on people, this is not something to celebrate, this is a tragedy that we will all be financing very soon. This woman is pathetic. |
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