Jan 27 2009
Octuplets Los Angeles, Calif USA – Woman Has Given Birth To Octuplets – Worlds Second Recorded Living Octuplets
The Seven Remaining Chukwu Octuplets - Born 1998 -
Octuplets Los Angeles, Calif USA – Woman Has Given Birth To Octuplets – Worlds Second Recorded Living Octuplets
All eight babies comprising of 6 boys and 2 girls were delivered safely by Caesarean section at hospital in Los Angeles today and the octuplets were delivered within 5 minutes.
The pregnancy had gone to a healthy 31 weeks, allowing the babies lungs to develop to a good degree which will give them a strong chance of survival.
At the ultrasound scan doctors detected only 7 babies. Babies are scanned by head-count or heart-beat and it is possible that one head became superimposed upon another in the imaging.
The unborn would have been a mass of arms and legs wriggling around and only 7 were counted. So the arrival of the eighth was a total surprise to the doctors.
The octuplets arrived 9 weeks early and the smallest baby weighed in at only 1 and a half pounds and the heaviest weighing 3lb 4oz. The unnamed mother of eight is said to be delighted with the safe delivery.
Attending Doctor, Karen E Maples released a statement at the news conference earlier today confirming that this was an “Unprecedented and very exciting day in the operating room” stating that all live born eight babies were doing well. Dr. Maples added it was a “Truly, truly amazing delivery”.
46 medical staff attended the births and 4 delivery rooms were utilised. The entire medical team were in a euphoric state at their involvement in the safe delivery of this rare set of octuplets.
The next few hours and days are critical, two of the babies are on ventilators but medical staff is “hopeful“ that all the babies will survive. Their next 6 weeks will be spent in intensive care.
The last set of recorded octuplets were born 10 years ago in 1998 to a mother is Texas, USA. Sadly one girl baby died one week after birth but all remaining seven Chukwu children are now thriving.
Today the mother offered advice, saying “Take it easy. Take sleep when you can and enjoy”. She finished by saying that the octuplets were a “Precious gift from God”.
Oh, wow! What a surprise for the mother when she found that she had eight babies, rather than the seven that she’d been expecting. It’s fantastic that they’ve all been born alive, and hopefully all of them will remain alive and well.
This really is a very rare and exciting thing to happen, and once again your news post really has impressed me. You’re such a talented writer, and always I enjoy reading your blog posts.