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Second US woman delivered octuplets

Since 1998, another American woman had delivered eight babies in single pregnancy and has become the second U.S. lady who gave birth to living octuple...

 

Since 1998, another American woman had delivered eight babies in single pregnancy and has become the second U.S. lady who gave birth to living octuplets.

Among them two were baby girls and six were baby boys which were nine week premature and delivered through C-section in the hospital of Los Angeles.

The birth weight of all babies was within the range of 0.82 to 1.47 kilograms and all are in good healthy conditions. They are energetically screaming around, staff nurses said

The identification of the mother has not been disclosed and she said that minimum information be liberated about the children. Doctors said that all deliveries took place within five minutes and this is truly amazing.

The team of the doctor had already planed c-section for the seven babies, but they got astonished when eight one came out.

“Lo and behold, after we got to Baby ‘G’, the last one we were expecting, we were surprised by Baby ‘H’.” said Dr Karen Maples.

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