Re: 8 Babies Born to Southern California Woman
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Tue Jan 27 06:09:23 2009
That's a litter!
http://videos.kansascity.com/vmix_hosted_apps/p/media?id=2961886
And she plans to breastfeed ...
Art
At Tue, 27 Jan 2009, GIN11153@aol.com wrote:
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>Updated 8:02 PM PST, Mon, Jan 26, 2009
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>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-Calif
>ornia-Woman.html_
>(http://www.nbclosangeles.com/health/women/Eight-Babies-Born-to-Southern-California-Woman.html)
>Gail
>
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art fougner, md
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