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Re: 8 Babies Born to Southern California Woman From: Andrew Folley (agfolley@hotmail.com) Tue Jan 27 09:47:07 2009 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Ina May Gaskin: "Re: 8 Babies Born to Southern California Woman" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: 8 Babies Born to Southern California Woman" In reply to: art fougner, md: "Re: 8 Babies Born to Southern California Woman" Next in thread: Ina May Gaskin: "Re: 8 Babies Born to Southern California Woman" Reply: Ina May Gaskin: "Re: 8 Babies Born to Southern California Woman" I hope someone will ask her infertility specialist to explain how he or she let this happen and what the projected cost to the health care system will be for these 8 premies over the next year? ( I already know who is going to be paying for it!?!) > Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:10:38 -0600> From: evsono@pipeline.com> To: ob-gyn-l@mail.obgyn.net> Subject: Re: 8 Babies Born to Southern California Woman> > That's a litter!> http://videos.kansascity.com/vmix_hosted_apps/p/media?id)61886> > And she plans to breastfeed ...> > Art> > At Tue, 27 Jan 2009, GIN11153@aol.com wrote:> >> >Updated 8:02 PM PST, Mon, Jan 26, 2009> >> >BELLFLOWER, Calif. -- 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.> >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 -- nticipation 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."> >Video of the doctors talking here:> >_http://www.nbclosangeles.com/health/women/Eight-Babies-Born-to-Southern-Calif> >ornia-Woman.html_> >(http://www.nbclosangeles.com/health/women/Eight-Babies-Born-to-Southern-California-Woman.html)> >Gail> >> >up-to-date with the latest news. (http://aol.com?ncid=emlcntaolcom00000023)> > --> art f ore_012009 Next message: Ina May Gaskin: "Re: 8 Babies Born to Southern California Woman" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Re: 8 Babies Born to Southern California Woman" In reply to: art fougner, md: "Re: 8 Babies Born to Southern California Woman" Next in thread: Ina May Gaskin: "Re: 8 Babies Born to Southern California Woman" Reply: Ina May Gaskin: "Re: 8 Babies Born to Southern California Woman"

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