woman gives birth to 8 babies...

[atosh]

The world's second-ever octuplets were born Monday at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center, and doctors said the six boys and two girls were doing well.

Doctors Discuss Octuplets

"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. "It was a truly, truly amazing delivery. The babies are currently in stable condition."

Kaiser spokeswoman Mayra Suarez said the birth began at 10:43 a.m., and the babies range from 1 pound 8 ounces to 3 pounds 4 ounces. She said the mother has asked to remain anonymous.

Doctors said two of the babies, who were delivered by Caesarian section, have had breathing tubes inserted and were on ventilators, and a third needs some additional oxygen. But overall, the infants were crying and kicking and doing well.

The mother was also doing well, doctors said. The mother has asked to remain anonymous and asked officials not to release detailed information about her care -- including whether she had been taking fertility drugs.

"The delivery process went very smoothly," Dr. Harold Henry said. "We practiced several dry runs and the actual delivery process only took about five minutes to deliver all eight babies."

Maples said the babies were delivered about nine weeks premature, and doctors were only anticipating seven of them.

"In anticipation of seven babies, we made sure we were prepared by doing some drills, some preliminary dry runs to make sure we had everything in place for these seven babies," Maples said. "But lo and behold, after we got to Baby G, which is what we expected, we were surprised by the discoery of a Baby H, and that was the eighth baby that we delivered."

Doctors said the first three to seven days are a critical time for such a mass, premature birth, but said the prognosis looked good for all of them. They also said it was not unusual for doctors to have been surprised by the eighth baby.

"It is quite easy to miss a baby when you have seven," Henry said. "When you're anticipating seven, it is extremely difficult to perform an ultrasound."

The first live-born octuplets, six girls and two boys, were born in Houston in 1998. One of the girls died after a week.

The Kaiser Permanente doctors said they were still getting over the surprise of the octuplet birth.

"It was a shock, especially with the eighth baby, my eyes were definitely wide," Maples said. "... And this patient was incredibly courageous, very strong, did all that we asked to ... have an optimal outcome for delivery. She was a marvelous patient."

[atosh]

8 at once i feel 4 her.

[AyanTu]

Are they gonna have a tv show too??

[Aerosmith]

That´s gross dude. Atosh I hope you´re a female. Why would a man be interested in pregnancy and overly stretched belly.

[atosh]

That´s gross dude. Atosh I hope you´re a female. Why would a man be interested in pregnancy and overly stretched belly.

am not guy that would be weird.
i was just fascinated...

[Aerosmith]

Whats fo fascinating about pregnancy and birth unless you into pain. All that slime and extended ........ gotta turn a woman off too right.

[atosh]

Whats fo fascinating about pregnancy and birth unless you into pain. All that slime and extended ........ gotta turn a woman off too right.

didn't think it humanly possible
en wasts disgusting about givin birth
dats how u came into this world.

[AyanTu]

Atosh, don't mind Aerosmith, he's one of those squeamish pansy mans ...but 8 kids at
one time is not natural....they must have had invetro.

[Cawar]

8 at once i feel 4 her.

Lol. Dont you read what you post??

It siad : "and the babies range from 1 pound 8 ounces to 3 pounds 4 ounces"... .

[AyanTu]

8 at once i feel 4 her.

Lol. Dont you read what you post??

It siad : "and the babies range from 1 pound 8 ounces to 3 pounds 4 ounces"... .

Dude there are still 8 of them!!!!

[Cawar]

8 at once i feel 4 her.

Lol. Dont you read what you post??

It siad : "and the babies range from 1 pound 8 ounces to 3 pounds 4 ounces"... .

Dude there are still 8 of them!!!!

Lol. I was trying to bully him..it seems my bad eye misread the thing.lol

[Aerosmith]

Atosh, don't mind Aerosmith, he's one of those squeamish pansy mans

I´ve been called many things but this is gotta a first one. I´ll let those who know me in real life be the judge.

[Advo]

The guy must of had Super Sperm like me

[HELWAA]

Eight babies! wow..is gonna be tough taking care of all these kids at once.Changing diapers, feed them etc etc.I hope she gets some help.

[zulaika]

anyone watch John and Kate Plus 8?(on TLC)... its this couple that have 8 kids...a pair of twins and a set of sextuplets....man i really feel for that mom, its friggin' mind boggling how extremely organized and alert she has to be every single moment to keep up with them.