I’m really scratching my head on the nursing them all. I nursed my 3 also, for extended time, but I can’t see how I could have nursed 8! She will never do anything but suckle a baby if she really does that. However, maybe her plan is just to do it for the first few months to get them started.
And yes, it’s easy to miss one when you have a litter of puppies (yes we often sonogram) so I expect it would be easy to miss one in a mass pregnancy in humans as well.
8, wow. I cannot imagine what their life is going to be like for the next 10 or 12 years—and then 8 teenagers! Oh my!