Posted on 01/26/2009 5:02:42 PM PST by TaxPayer2000
A mother has given birth to eight babies in a hospital south of Los Angeles, the world's second live-born set of octuplets.
Dr. Karen Maples told KCAL-TV that the babies were born Monday at Kaiser Permanante and were "doing quite well."
The hospital says the mother, who asked not to be identified, gave birth to six girls and two boys weighing between 1.8 pounds and 3.4 pounds.
Dr. Harold Henry told KCAL that "they were all screaming and kicking around very vigorously."
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I doubt it. This is usually from ovary stimulation which I doubt is cheap.
I believe our President would view these babies as a punishment.
Well, good luck and Godspeed to her. Let’s hope she raises them to not be dem voters.
And sadly how many will survive. Prayers to them.
My son was 2 1/2 when my identical twin daughters were born.
I cried when I found out I was carrying twins. I knew how much work 1 baby was, and I didn’t know how I’d manage with 3.
It also did not go well. My twins got sick when they were 6 weeks old. One of them has a brain injury, and at 12 years old we are still dealing with issues from that.
I love my twins, but I would never have fertility drugs that increased my chances of having multiples. I’d adopt instead.
One short of a baseball side.
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I doubt it. Nobody can produce that many naturally. It requires fertility drugs, and a LOT of prenatal care for all eight to survive. So, somebody has really good insurance.
All seven _ girls Ebuka, Gorom, Chidi, Chima and Echerem, and their brothers Ikem and Jioke _ were born three months prematurely in December 1998 at a Houston hospital. Their weight at birth ranged from 11 ounces to 1 pound, 11 ounces.Odera, the tiniest at 10.3 ounces, died of heart and lung failure a week after being born.
Try not being able to have any. Eight is a blessing, none is a curse.
PS Brucey was my dog.
How I wish I could be your worst enemy!
{{{{{Hugs}}}}}}
I hear you. :*(
I dealt with infertility for many years myself (married in ‘94, 6 years before my first daughter was born, another 7 before my twins arrived this past summer on our last try, several lost babies in between). No way
these were a natural pregnancy, not that that makes any difference in the existence of those precious little lives!
Prayers going up for all of them, and for you, too, BruceysMom.
Mother gives birth to octuplets in SoCal hospital: Pelosi Personally Offended
Please tell me she is not an illegal alien
This is from the cheapest kind of ovary stimulation, which probably cost them $50 at the most. When you pay the big bucks you are carefully monitored so that you do not ever ovulate/fertilize more than the number of eggs you want to actually try to implant.
Could she be a lab rat or a rabbit?
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