Sentences with word «octuplets»

As of 2009, there were 19 sets of octuplets in the world, but of that number only five sets have any living members, and only one set had all babies alive.

«Prehistoric reptile pregnant with octuplets.»

In 2009, a second set, the Suleman octuplets, were born in Bellflower, California.

You hate to throw it away, but you already have more then enough for your baby, in fact you probably could nurse octuplets with the amount you produce.

This is WHY octuplets do not occur naturally.

The decision to scrap the designer baby service came just a few weeks after Nadya Suleman, a single, unemployed California mother living on food stamps, gained notoriety after giving birth to octuplets through in vitro fertilization.

Population concerns may lurk within the public anger over illegal immigration or over the unwed California mother of octuplets earlier this year.

Large families are the subject of reality shows, best - selling books and now the recent controversy over the mother of Octuplets — these have all stirred up conversations about parenting capabilities and responsibilities.

In several interviews, Nadya Suleman, who received in - vitro fertilization and gave birth to octuplets, said that the reason she chose to have eight embryos implanted (despite already having six children) was because she believed that each of those embryos represented a life.

The octuplet's were conceived via IVF.

If more than two eggs are released, fertilized, and implant, the result is multizygotic multiples, higher order multiples such as triplets (3), quadruplets (4), quintuplets (5), sextuplets (6), septuplets (7), octuplets (8), or even more, although no multiples beyond octuplets have ever been known to survive.

That number includes quints, sextuplets, septuplets, and octuplets.

You can find many online discussions of what people would name twins, triplets, quadruplets, quintuplets, and octuplets.

A literary review on multiple pregnancies shows a study done on one set each of septuplets and octuplets, two sets of sextuplets, 8 sets of quintuplets, 17 sets of quadruplets, and 228 sets of triplets.

No matter what you think about the octuplets and their carbon footprint, I find these images of the mother incredible.

Everyone loves news on the octuplets.

I, like everyone else in the blogosphere, have my own opinions about the birth of the octuplets to an already large family.

And when I read about Nadya Suleman breastfeeding her octuplets, I wondered: If we're not naturally meant to give birth to this many babies, will she be able to keep her supply up?

The most common form of human multiple birth is twins (two babies), but cases of triplets (three), quadruplets (four), quintuplets (five), sextuplets (six), septuplets (seven), and octuplets (eight) have all been recorded with all siblings being born alive.

In the wake of the octuplets» birth, some legislators made hasty bids to enact regulation at the state level — and one bill was drafted with the help of antiabortion advocates.