Not far from where this writer currently sits, in Bellflower CA, a woman has given birth to eight children — octuplets. Amazingly, the children were all birthed in the span of five minutes. And no one had been fully expecting it, either:
The medical team had scheduled a Caesarean section for seven babies, but doctors were surprised when an eighth came out.
“Lo and behold, after we got to Baby G, which is what we expected, we were surprised by Baby H,” said Dr Karen Maples.
This is only the second time that octuplets have been born successfully (i.e. all of them alive) in the United States.
