The Octuplets of 2009

Back in January of this year there was an amazing birth announcement in newspapers and on TV around the world.

“As of Monday morning, a woman gave birth to a set of healthy octuplets, 6 boys and 2 girls, she is doing fine. This is only the second known case in the US. She has a chorus of eight hungry babies demanding to be fed and changed.

It took a team of 46 doctors and nurses five minutes to deliver the nature-defying brood via Caesarean section. The eighth took everyone in the maternity ward by surprise. The medical team took up four delivery rooms and conducted a relay race to get the babies from the mother and into the care of nurses as they popped out.”

One newborn is hard enough work for a couple or even a single mom. Can you imagine what this new mother in California, with 8 screaming infants, will be going through? Just think of the number of baby announcements she will be sending out. She definitely will not be getting much sleep over the next couple of years. Just wait until the 1st birthday invitations she will need to be sent out, oh boy!

One thing is for sure, when she finds that special guy and when she is sending out her marriage announcements, she will not have to worry about flower girls or ring bearers. She will have her own already.