LA lady gives birth to octuplets

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Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:04 am

Baiting Guru Joined: 04 Dec 2005 Posts: 3551

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/26/california.octuplets/index.html

Shocked

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

^^Dr. Gupta has a serious Shocked

look on his face. I think he is more surprised than the mother.

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 3:27 pm

Wow... I hope the poor mother has help at home. I really hope these aren't her first babies Shocked

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Master of Master Baiters Joined: 06 Feb 2008 Posts: 720

I thought Twins were hard work

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 5:14 pm

Will octuplets squirt ink when they are frightened?

Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 9:55 pm

In Los Angeles, of course!

Welcome to the Freak Show!

Surprised

Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 12:08 am

ChainYanker wrote:

Wow... I hope the poor mother has help at home. I really hope these aren't her first babies Shocked

.

You hope she had more before this?Damn,I really think 8 is quite enough!

Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 4:36 am

They were prepared for seven. The eighth was a surprise... Shocked

Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 3:22 pm

doc holliday wrote:

ChainYanker wrote:

Wow... I hope the poor mother has help at home. I really hope these aren't her first babies Shocked

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You hope she had more before this?Damn,I really think 8 is quite enough!

No, I meant I hope she's had experience as a mother.

Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 4:48 pm

If she doesn't she is certainly about to get some on the job training Smile

Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:15 pm

Quote:

Will octuplets squirt ink when they are frightened?

No, but the boys might squirt something else. Wink

She wants to breastfeed! Shocked

She'll be doing nothing else for months.

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 2628

^ From experience I know thats true
And I only had one at a time!

Its more tiring than anyone can imagine and takes four times as long as you'd think

To be practical I think the only way would be to express the milk and have helpers feed the babies by bottle on a rota, then formula the rest of the time
At least that way they will be getting some of the benefits of mothers milk.

Baiting Guru Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 18313

I breastfed my kids and can honestly say, I don't think it is humanly possible to breastfeed eight babies. Shocked

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 2628

I had great trouble with one, he was 9 and half pounds at birth and always hungry
It wore me out
Against all breastfeeding advice I ended up topping him up with formula.
It worked out fine that way and hubby was able to take a turn feeding him, which he enjoyed
But I did feel ever so guilty

Now, if I had been able to make breastmilk curry flavoured...
Rolling Eyes

Not quite a Newb Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 74

Ima Baeder wrote:

I breastfed my kids and can honestly say, I don't think it is humanly possible to breastfeed eight babies. Shocked

Oh really? Laughing

"Halleluja our problems are solved, we have banana bread!"

actually that's the first thing that came to my mind when I read that story Embarassed

Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 12:09 am

Just saw a news report-She already has 6 other children??????

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE50S6P020090129

Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:05 am

... and I read that she's single. Shocked

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FYI - - -

Quote:

The Chukwu octuplets were the first set of octuplets born in the United States. The six girls and two boys were born during the month of December 1998 at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston, Texas. Their parents — mother, Nkem Chukwu, then 27, and father, Iyke Louis Udobi, then 41 — were both Nigerian-born American citizens.[1] As both parents were of Igbo ancestry, the babies were named according to Igbo tradition,[2] as follows:

* Chukwuebuka Nkemjika (Ebuka) - Girl, weighed 690g (22 oz.) at birth
* Chidinma Anulika (Chidi) - Girl, weighed 760g (24.4 oz.) at birth
* Chinecherem Nwabugwu (Echerem) - Girl, weighed 800g (25.7 oz.) at birth
* Chimaijem Otito (Chima) - Girl, weighed 730g (23.5 oz.) at birth
* Chijindu Chidera (Odera) - Girl, weighed 320g (10.3 oz.) at birth
* Chukwubuikem Maduabuchi (Ikem) - Boy, weighed 500g (16.0 oz.) at birth
* Chijioke Chinedum (Jioke) - Boy, weighed 810g (26.0 oz.) at birth
* Chinagorom Chidiebere (Gorom) - Girl, weighed 520g (16.7 oz.) at birth

The octuplets were conceived with the aid of fertility medication. The first born, Ebuka, was delivered on December 8, 15 weeks premature. The remainder were born by Caesarean section on December 20, 13 weeks premature. The smallest of the octuplets, Odera, died on December 27, a week after birth.

RC - Note that I have not made any negative comments.
You know you want to - RC Wink

Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 3:34 am

Quote:

"When we see something like this in the general fertility world, it gives us the heebie-jeebies," Michael Tucker, an Atlanta-based clinical embryologist and leading researcher in fertility treatments, told the Los Angeles Times.

"If a medical practitioner had anything to do with it, there's some degree of inappropriate medical therapy there," the Times quoted him as saying.

Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 6:34 am

Obviously trying to set a record and get some publicity.

Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 7:02 am

If she plays her cards right, she can make a fortune with a baby food company. The advertising values are huge, Plus the stupid woman's magazines, and the photographic rights.

But just think , It would be like feeding time at a piggery, and if that's right about the other six kids,, just think of the child endowment payments..

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 3:56 pm

She has just hired an agent and wants $2 million for her "story".

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 4:15 pm

I may be wrong but I thought that there was only one reason for making babies, and making money isn't it.

I honestly can't imagine that anyone would be much interested nowadays. This is nothing new, and fertility treatment is quite common. The only story is in how she was able to do something so inadvisable to her and her babies' welfare, but I wouldn't buy a magazine to find out.

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 9:02 pm

I hear she's single, and living with her mother. Grandma says that she's simply "obsessed" with having kids.

Good luck.

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