World 2nd Octuplets Born In California
Posted by Rajib - 28/01/09 at 07:01:16 am
On this Monday, at Bellflower a woman gave birth to eight babies in Southern California which is the world’s second live-born set of octuplets.
Massive 46-person team of doctors was assisting the birth and four delivery rooms were used for the births. The hospital had programmed a caesarean section for seven babies, but doctors were astonished by the eighth. The last baby came five minutes after the first was born. “My eyes were wide,” Dr. Karen Maples said, explaining her reaction to the very last birth. Dr. Harold Henry, chief of maternal and fetal medicine at the hospital said, “It is quite easy to miss a baby when you’re anticipating seven babies. Ultrasound doesn’t show you everything.”
The mother, whose name the hospital did not release, gave birth to six boys and two girls weighing between 1 pound, 8 ounces and 3 pounds, 4 ounces, doctors at Kaiser Permanante Bellflower Medical Center told the associated press. Doctors also said the babies were born nine weeks premature but are in stable condition. Two newborns were placed on ventilators and a third needs oxygen.
The first live born octuplets were born in Houston in 1998, and one baby died about a week later. But now everyone wishes that this octuplets will be live well with good health and happy life.
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