Octuplets born at the same time are doing well

27 January 2009 @ 12:14 pm EDT

The Worlds second octuplets live are doing well after a Californian woman gave birth to eight babies at the same time, in Los Angeles, CA on Monday.

Photo Title: Doctors Karen Maples, left with Harold Henry, right and Mandhir Gupta center take questions at a news conference at the Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center in Bellflower, Calif. on Monday, Jan. 26, 2009. A mother gave birth to eight babies in the hospital south of Los Angeles, the world`s second live-born set of octuplets. The mother, who asked not to be identified, gave birth to six girls and two boys weighing between 1.8 po...

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"Only three babies need some sort of oxygen through the nose right now but they are breathing on their own," Dr. Mandhir Gupta said Tuesday. "The babies are doing actually very, very well."

The children were born nine weeks premature and two newborns were placed on ventilators and a third needs oxygen.

According to the Associated Press, Doctors of Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center said, the hospital had scheduled a Caesarean section for seven babies, but doctors were surprised by the eighth came out at 10:48 a.m.

The mother of that octuplets gave birth to six boys and two girls weighing between 1 pound, 8 ounces and 3 pound, 4 ounces. The first baby born at 10:43 a.m., and the last one is at 10:48 a.m.

Octuplets born at the same time are doing well

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