Re: 8 Babies Born to Southern California Woman
From: Anna Meenan, MD (annam@uic.edu)
Fri Jan 30 06:18:58 2009
Apparently she is a young single mother who already has 6 kids and lives
with her parents. She did have fertility treatments. *sigh*
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Anna Meenan, MD
At Tue, 27 Jan 2009, rmodugno@aol.com wrote:
>
>What a pity - California is already bankrupt!
>
>Robert Modugno MD MBA FACOG
>Sylva, NC
>
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>To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L <ob-gyn-l@mail.obgyn.net>
>Sent: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 3:49 am
>Subject: 8 Babies Born to Southern California Woman
>
>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 -
>- including whether she had been taking
>fertility
>drugs.
>"The delivery process went very smoothly," Dr. Harold Henry
>said. "We practiced several dry runs and the actual delivery process
>only took
>about five minutes to deliver all eight babies."
>Maples said the babies were delivered about nine weeks
>premature, and doctors were only anticipating seven of them.
>"In anticipation 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-California-Woman.html
>
>
>
>Gail
>
>
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