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wow.....amazingly a Octuplets....that is the way to increase S'pore population......
Oh Baby! Mom Gives Birth To 8 Babies In 5 Minutes
Today we had an unprecedented, very exciting day in our operating room and labor delivery where our team of 46 physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists as well as surgical techs delivered eight babies, all live born," Dr. Karen Maples said at the Kaiser Permanente hospital. "It was a truly, truly amazing delivery. The babies are currently in stable condition."
The octuplets born to a mother in Southern California are doing "very, very well" and breathing on their own, one of their doctors said Tuesday.
Dr. Mandhir Gupta, a neonatologist at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center, says the eight babies were in stable condition.
Two of the newborns -- the second live octuplets born in U.S. history -- were initially put on ventilators, but their breathing tubes have been removed.
"Only three babies need some sort of oxygen through the nose right now but they are breathing on their own," Gupta said. "The babies are doing actually very, very well."
The mother, who was not identified, gave birth Monday to the six boys and two girls weighing between 1 pound, 8 ounces, and 3 pounds, 4 ounces. The eighth baby was a surprise to the parents and doctors who had been expecting only seven children.
"It is quite easy to miss a baby when you're anticipating seven," said Dr. Harold Henry, chief of maternal and fetal medicine and one of 46 doctors, nurses and assistants who delivered the children by Caesarean section.
Just five minutes after the first birth, the unexpected eighth baby came out at 10:48 a.m. "My eyes were wide," said Dr. Karen Maples, chief of the department of obstetrics and gynecology.
Maples said the mother was "very comfortable now. She is currently stable and we're observing her. She's also very excited about the health of her babies and she's extremely happy."
Doctors said they repeatedly conducted practice sessions in anticipation of the deliveries and were well prepared. Maples credited that with the ability to handle the unexpected eighth baby. "It was wonderful just knowing that our teamwork paid off," she said.
The babies -- dubbed with the letters A-through-H -- will probably remain in the hospital for at least two months and the mother should be released in a week, said Maples. The most encouraging news was that the smallest -- Baby E, a boy weighing just 1 pound, 8 ounces -- no longer needed a ventilator. Gupta described him as "very feisty" on Tuesday.
The doctors cautioned that there is still the possibility that one or more of the octuplets may need a breathing tube again, and more dangers await when they begin feeding.
The mother checked into the hospital in her 23rd week of pregnancy and gave birth to the premature babies seven weeks later. Gupta said the woman was given spinal anesthesia and could hear the babies as they came out.
The world's first live octuplets were born in March 1967 in Mexico City, but all died within 14 hours, according to Encyclopedia Britannica.
The United States' first live octuplets were born in Houston in 1998, three months premature. The tiniest died a week after the birth. The surviving siblings turned 10 in December -
Even better......!
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Single Mother...wow imagine if all the 14 children grew up to be doctors and tycoons
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*jaws drop*
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dunno how is she going to raise the kids
the expenses alone is enuff to crush most people o.0
and feed bathe change their clothes also
and if 8 of them cry together.........
arghhhhhhh!
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Originally posted by ChoCoChips:
dunno how is she going to raise the kids
the expenses alone is enuff to crush most people o.0
and feed bathe change their clothes also
and if 8 of them cry together.........
arghhhhhhh!
at least the good things is the kids is not born in singapore...
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Originally posted by ChoCoChips:
dunno how is she going to raise the kids
the expenses alone is enuff to crush most people o.0
and feed bathe change their clothes also
and if 8 of them cry together.........
arghhhhhhh!
ooohh yeahh...
we were talking about this in class the other day.
'by the time you're done feeding the 8th kid, you gotta start on the 1st one again'
>.<
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and if the eight of them wants 抱抱 at the time
we will see the mom kena taupok
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Originally posted by udontknowme:
ooohh yeahh...
we were talking about this in class the other day.
'by the time you're done feeding the 8th kid, you gotta start on the 1st one again'
>.<
How many calories do you think it would takes for the mothers to eat to feed 8 babies?
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Originally posted by [J]erry:
at least the good things is the kids is not born in singapore...
fertility clinic....Singapore govt would be very please it solve its population problems....if every women give birth 8 in one go.....
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Originally posted by ChoCoChips:
and if the eight of them wants 抱抱 at the time
we will see the mom kena taupok
i think it is possible to have 2 baby in 1 hand so that gives 4. 2 baby on each side of the Tigh. that gives 8 in total. -
wow... 8... wow! Just imagine I've 7 brother and sisters celebraing our birthdays together... wow? that's gonna be fun man!