The California woman who astonished doctors earlier this week by giving birth to octuplets at a suburban Los Angeles hospital already has six other children, a news channel reported yesterday.
The California woman who astonished doctors earlier this week by giving birth to octuplets at a suburban Los Angeles hospital already has six other children, a news channel reported yesterday.
The woman delivered six boys and two girls prematurely by Caesarean section on Monday, surprising doctors who had seen only seven babies in ultrasound images.
Officials at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Los Angeles have declined to identify the mother or reveal if she received fertility treatments, which can increase the likelihood of multiple births.
There are no known cases of naturally conceived octuplets.
A Kaiser Permanente spokeswoman declined to comment on the news report but said that all eight babies were still in the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit and doing well.
Five of the babies were feeding and six were breathing on their own, hospital spokeswoman Nancy Tovar-Huxen said. She said doctors had not yet determined when they could go home.
In reporting that the mother already has six other children, a reporter who visited the woman's Los Angeles-area home cited two unnamed acquaintances.
One of those acquaintances said that the mother lived with her parents and that two of her other children were twins.
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