US woman gives birth to octuplets

[Preetam]

A US woman has given birth to eight babies, becoming just the second person recorded in the US to have delivered a set of living octuplets.

The six boys and two girls, who were nine weeks premature, were delivered by Caesarean section in the hospital near Los Angeles, California.

The babies weighed in at between 1lb 8 ounces (820g) and 3lb 4oz (1.47kg) and are all said to be doing well.

They were screaming and kicking around very vigorously, a doctor said.

The mother, whose identity has not been revealed, has asked that limited information be released about the births.

She checked in to the hospital 23 weeks into her pregnancy and gave birth seven weeks later.

A spokeswoman at the Bellflower medical centre described the deliveries, which took place in the space of five minutes, as "truly amazing".

The medical team had scheduled a Caesarean section for seven babies, but doctors were surprised when an eighth came out.

"Lo and behold, after we got to Baby G, which is what we expected, we were surprised by Baby H," said Dr Karen Maples.

Three of the babies needed help breathing, but all were otherwise doing well, a doctor said.

The babies will be in incubators for at least six weeks and the mother is planning to breast feed them all, the hospital officials said.

"She is a very strong woman, so she probably will be able to handle all eight babies," said Dr Mandhir Gupta.

He added that the mother was "doing very, very well" and was "really excited that she got all of these babies, and that they're doing good so far".

The team did not give any more details about the mother's identity or say whether she had used fertility drugs.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7852623.stm

[geekgod90]

8 in a row

Wonder what did her hubby use :mrgreen:

[cybercool10]

Wonder what did her hubby use

Forgot to buy dumsdums and used tyres perhaps ......

[erif]

I saw this on TV, and my first reaction was to find out the species of the female in question. :shock:

[Clinton123]

I feel this is just similar to Intel's innovation of including more and more cores on the same size chip.
But Intel has managed only Quad cores,She has managed 8 ,Gotta do something Intel :mrgreen:

[cybercool10]

Yeah +1

Next one should be Intel's Quad core Duo.........

@erif : which channel , coz i don't watch TV much......

[erif]

which channel , coz i don't watch TV much.

BBC

[taral]

Look S*X ratio is very bad. Only 2 girls for 6 boys

[Preetam]

Look S*X ratio is very bad. Only 2 girls for 6 boys

Yeah, I noticed that now.

I saw this on TV, and my first reaction was to find out the species of the female in question. :shock:

Some say she's used some Booster Drugs kinda!