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	Nurseweek/Healthweek\|Seven surviving octuplets holding on (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The seven surviving octuplets born to a Houston woman last month are breathing on their own, marking an important milestone in the development of the infants, who were born 25 to 27 weeks prematurely.
		Chukwu, who had been at St. Luke’s since October, was released from the hospital Dec. 30.
		The births of the octuplets, so soon after the November births of sextuplets at St. Luke’s, created an equipment challenge for respiratory therapists at the hospital, who had to borrow ventilators from other facilities to accommodate the infants.
	www.nurseweek.com /news/99-1/11c.html (315 words)

	CNN - World's first octuplets struggle for survival - December 21, 1998
		Chukwu has been in the hospital since early October and has taken extraordinary measures to maintain her pregnancy so the babies would have a better chance of survival, doctors said.
		Chukwu and her husband, a respiratory therapist, are both Nigerian-born, U.S. citizens who have insurance to help defray the millions of dollars in medical costs associated with multiple births.
		The Chukwu octuplets top the previous record of seven surviving babies, born November 19, 1997, to Bobbi and Kenny McCaughey of Carlisle, Iowa.
	www.cnn.com /US/9812/21/octuplets.02/index.html (749 words)

	NurseWeek: Miracle Birth: Nurses recount unforgettable arrival of the Houston octuplets
		After the birth of her first child, Ebuka, on Dec. 8, Chukwu remained on the labor and delivery unit in an inverted position in bed, to offset the forces of gravity on the babies.
		Chukwu’s husband, Iyke Louis Udobi, is a respiratory therapist.
		Once Chukwu gained enough strength to visit the babies, she tried to hold them on a regular schedule, but that often varied depending on how well the babies were doing, Marr said.
	www.nurseweek.com /features/99-4/octup.html (1066 words)

	thedailystar.com - Editorials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		For Chukwu, the first baby was born naturally Dec. 8, followed by the seven others delivered by Caesarean section 12 days later.
		Historically, few babies as small as the octuplet who died — who was born at just 10.3 ounces — have survived more than a few hours after birth, though recent improvements in treatment of tiny newborns have improved the odds somewhat.
		In fact, a detailed account of Chukwu's life in the two months before the octuplets were born, and what has yet to occur to the surviving babies, would be useful.
	www.thedailystar.com /opinion/edits/1998/12/e1230.html (414 words)

	Augusta Georgia: technology@ugusta: Octuplets' mom goes home 12/31/98
		Mother of octuplets Nkem Chukwu (left) is escorted by her husband, Iyke Louis Udobi, as the couple arrives home from the hospital Wednesday, Dec. 30, 1998, in Houston.
		Chukwu said her faith in God and the love she felt for her unborn children were what carried her through the pregnancy.
		Chukwu and her husband, a respiratory therapist, admitted it's going to be difficult to raise seven children but said they would cope with the future just as they did with the past: with love and faith.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/123198/tec_124-2536.shtml (667 words)

	CNN - Chukwu octuplets greet new year in critical but stable condition - January 1, 1999
		Chukwu octuplets greet new year in critical but stable condition
		HOUSTON (CNN) -- The seven Chukwu octuplets who survived into the new year were reported in critical but stable condition Friday at Texas Children's Hospital.
		The octuplets' parents are Nkem Chukwu and her husband, Iyke Louis Udobi, both Nigerian-Americans who live in Houston.
	www.cnn.com /US/9901/01/octuplets (273 words)

	Augusta Georgia: technology@ugusta: Woman delivers living octuplets 12/21/98
		Chukwu was carrying, said Dr. Brian Kirshon, who was among three doctors who delivered the children.
		Chukwu was in stable condition at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Kirshon said.
		Three other octuplet births have been recorded in the past 13 years, but in each of the births, some of the babies died.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/122198/tec_124-1995.shtml (574 words)

	Woman gives birth to first known surviving octuplets US senators set for swift resolution on impeachment Clinton job ...
		Chukwu delivered her 2-week-old daughter's five sisters and two brothers Sunday to complete the first known surviving set of octuplets.
		Chukwu, a Nigerian native who lives in Houston with her husband, Iyke, could be out of the hospital by week's end.
		Chukwu entered the hospital in early October and was confined to bed for six weeks.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /archives.php?id=10270 (2726 words)

	BBC News \| Americas \| Outlook 'optimistic' for octuplets
		Mrs Chukwu gave birth to seven of the children by Caesarean section on Sunday morning at St Luke's - the largest children's hospital in the USA.
		The children are the first for Ms Chukwu and her husband, Ike, who live in Houston and both originally come from Nigeria.
		Three other octuplet births have been recorded in the past 13 years, but in each case, some of the babies died.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/239458.stm (719 words)

	Texas Medical Center News
		As the TMC News goes to press, the seven surviving octuplets were each gaining weight and breathing on their own, remarkably good progress for infants not yet weighing much more than 2 pounds three weeks after they were delivered.
		The smallest of the octuplets (weighing just over 10 ounces at birth) died six days following birth after its tiny heart and lungs gave out and mechanical respiration was not successful.
		The first delivered of the octuplets preceded her siblings by 12 days; for the remainder of her pregnancy, Chukwu was kept in an inverted reclining position to take pressure off her uterus.
	www.tmc.edu /tmcnews/01_15_99/page_02.html (808 words)

	Octuplets' Mom Relied on Faith -- 12/22/1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Chukwu decided she would take her chances when informed in her 12th week of this pregnancy that she might be carrying six or seven unborn children.
		Chukwu never gave her personal discomfort a second thought after being admitted to St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital on Oct. 1, Kirshon said.
		Chukwu stuck by her faith and family, attributing her octuplets' birth to faith and God's will, Kirshon said.
	www.cnsnews.com /Culture/archive/CUL19981222a.html (408 words)

	Wikipedia: Eight
		Eight babies delivered in one birth are called octuplets.
		The first set of eight surviving babies, the Louis-Chukwu Octuplets, were born in 1998.
		On The Simpsons, Apu and his wife Manjula have a set of octuplets.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/e/ei/eight.html (483 words)

	Octuplets still hanging on; doctors guarded about prognosis
		But the Chukwu octuplets were hanging on Monday, a day after seven were delivered to join a sister born Dec.
		Chukwu, 27, who along with her family has declined to meet with the media, was bedridden at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital for 15 weeks to protect both her and her babies.
		Chukwu's husband Iyke was not at the hospital during the delivery.
	www.texnews.com /1998/texas/1oct1222.html (742 words)

	TWINSTUFF.COM--Two Debra Duncan Shows On Twins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The guests included the Chukwu Octuplets (from Clear Lake, just south of Houston--born to Nkem Chukwu and her husband Iyke Louis Udobi--one girl was born 12/8/98, the rest were born 12/20/98.
		First, all of the Chukwus and Collins are young children (under the age of 5), so that many kids at one point on the stage can present a problem.
		Secondly, the Chukwus weren't able to listen to the host's questions because they were trying to control their children.
	www.twinstuff.com /dduncantv.html (1269 words)

	NewStandard: 12/22/98
		But the Chukwu octuplets -- the world's only known living set of eight babies -- were hanging yesterday.
		Nkem Chukwu, 27, who along with her husband has declined to give interviews, was bedridden at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital for 15 weeks to protect both and her babies.
		The Chukwus, natives of Nigeria, are U.S. citizens.
	www.s-t.com /daily/12-98/12-22-98/a03wn022.htm (852 words)

	Online NewsHour: Forum -- Fertility Drugs- December 1998
		Chukwu left the hospital after spending three months there attempting to extend her pregnancy as long as possible to improve the children's chances at survival.
		The Chukwu octuplets and the McCaughey septuplets resulted from the use of fertility drugs.
		In both cases doctors offered a procedure known as selective reduction where the number of fetuses are reduced in order to increase the chances that the remaining babies are healthy and the pregnancy more normal.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/forum/january99/octuplets.html (618 words)

	octuplet
		HOUSTON -- The smallest of the Chukwu Octuplets died early yesterday from heart and lung failure, a week after she was born weighing just 292grams.
		Odera was the fifth child born to Ms Nkem Chukwu, of Nigeria, and her husband, Mr Iyke Louis Udobi.
		Ms Chukwu and her husband and mother visited all eight babies for the first time on Saturday night, at the same time as Odera's condition began to deteriorate.
	www.dispatch.co.za /1998/12/28/foreign/OCTUPLET.HTM (282 words)

	BBC News \| Health \| Surviving octuplets' health improves
		The health of two of the surviving seven octuplets born in Texas last month has shown a significant improvement, doctors have said.
		The mother, Nkem Chukwu, 27, was treated with fertility drugs and gave birth to the first of the octuplets on 8 December.
		Ms Chukwu and the children's father, Iyke Lous Udobi, 41, are both US citizens who originally came from Nigeria.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/health/264543.stm (299 words)

	TWINSTUFF.COM--The Houston Octuplets (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The octuplets were born at St. Luke's Hospital in Houston and transported to Texas Children's Hospital, also in Houston, shortly after birth.
		Two months later on June 25, the last of the octuplets to remain in the hospital, the first-born boy, Ikem, was also released from Texas Children's Hospital, as all seven surviving babies were reunited.
		The octuplets' grandmother, Janet Chukwu, bathes, clothes and feeds each of the toddlers starting at 6 a.m., according to a family news release.
	www.twinstuff.com /houoctup.htm (784 words)

	Octuplets: how many is too many children at one time?
		By the time Chukwu's eight tiny children are well enough to be taken home, an estimated $2 million will have been spent on their care, about $250,000 a child, predicts Texas Children's Hospital's chief neonatologist Dr. Leonard Weisman.
		Chief among the worries with the Chukwu children was lung development.
		Brian Kirshon, who delivered the octuplets, said the woman and her husband, Iyke Chukwu, a respiratory therapist at a Houston hospital, rejected the idea of "selective reduction," a technique in which doctors abort some fetuses so the others have a better chance of survival.
	www.texnews.com /1998/texas/1oct1223.html (647 words)

	CNN - Five of seven surviving octuplets breathing on their own - January 3, 1999
		One of the eight babies born to Nkem Chukwu and her husband, Iyke Louis Udobi, died December 27.
		Chukwu, 27, was released from St. Luke's Hospital on Wednesday.
		Chukwu octuplets greet new year in critical but stable condition - January 1, 1999
	edition.cnn.com /US/9901/03/octuplets/index.html (477 words)

	CNN - Family rejoices as three octuplets go home - March 3, 1999
		HOUSTON (CNN) -- The mother of the seven surviving Chukwu octuplets said there was "rejoicing" Wednesday when three of her babies were released from the hospital and taken home.
		The fifth baby born, Odera, the smallest and sickest of the octuplets, died December 27 from heart and lung failure.
		The mother was released from the hospital on December 30.
	edition.cnn.com /US/9903/03/octuplets (563 words)

	Re: Chukwu Octuplets on 20-20
		It irritates me at all of the press that the octuplets and septuplets get on how much they are given.
		Unfortunately for the Chukwu family, I am sure they agree that their life is not as "easy" as portrayed on 20/20.
		Chukwu did to save her children was remarkable, but not out of the ordinary.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~garyh/preemie_forum/old-messages/5315.html (970 words)

	ACU Today - Winter 2000 "Body & Soul"
		Seven of the Meyer patients are the surviving Chukwu octuplets born in December 1998.
		The international publicity accompanying the octuplets' birth made for a higher profile than usual for the self-effacing physician.
		Evaluation of preemies like the Chukwu babies is a regular part of the practice at Meyer and the source of many ethical challenges for the medical profession.
	www.acu.edu /acu-today/winter2000/cover01.html (2658 words)

	CJ Online National News: Octuplets continue fight, face guarded prognoses 12/22/98
		But the Chukwu octuplets -- the world's only known living set of eight babies -- were hanging on Monday.
		Cooper, who said he will be working at Texas Children's next week and probably will look after some of the Chukwu babies, said newborns between 1 and 2 pounds would have had little chance of survival when he began practicing in the early 1980s.
		Iyke Chukwu is a respiratory therapist; hospital officials wouldn't provide details about Nkem Chukwu.
	www.cjonline.com /stories/122298/new_octuplets.shtml (690 words)

	Multiple birth
		The most common form of multiple birth is twins (two babies), but cases of triplets (three), quadruplets (four), quintuplets (five), sextuplets (six), septuplets (seven), octuplets (eight), and nonuplets (nine) have all been recorded with all siblings being born alive.
		The Humair septuplets (born on January 14, 1998 in Abha, Saudi Arabia) were the world's second surviving set of septuplets, born to a 40-year-old mother.
		The smallest of the octuplets, Odera, died a week after birth.
	www.mrsci.com /Obstetrics/Multiple_birth.php (1466 words)

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		They were obviously making fun of all those octuplet stories that Dateline constantly tries to turn into "parents are heroes for keeping them alive and taking care of them (even though this is what is EXPECTED of American parents)" stories.
		The plot of "Manjula has octuplets and when her and Apu cannot support them they sell them to a zoo," as silly as it sounds, was actually made somewhat believable.
		Matt Selman takes an interesting social topic, such as the birth of octuplets through fertility drugs, incorporates it into the epic story of Apu's starting a life in America, and treats it with wit and charm.
	www.snpp.com /episodes/BABF03 (7464 words)

	Corpus Christi Online - / 80 tiny, weak little fingers cling to life
		Smallest octuplet weighs 10.3 ounces; others are over 1 pound each
		But the Chukwu octuplets were hanging on Monday, a day after seven were delivered to join a sister born Dec. 8.
		All eight children of Nkem and Iyke Chukwu remained in critical condition at Texas Children's Hospital Monday with the 13-day-old girl already breathing on her own, breaking for occasional oxygen sips.
	www.caller2.com /autoconv/newstexmex98/newstexmex211.html (365 words)

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