Mother who gave birth to 8 children. The most numerous twins born at the same time

Date of: 20.01.2022

Eight were conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF).

Doctors in such cases insist on the reduction (removal) of a part of the embryos. After all, such a number of them can adversely affect both the health of the mother and the health of future children.

But the Californian, with the support of her large family, refused to reduce. A single mother, she divorced her husband a long time ago precisely because they could not have children together.

The delivery by caesarean section was nine weeks ahead of schedule. A team of 46 doctors who took birth was expecting the birth of seven babies, which, although not often, does happen. However, there were eight newborns - six boys and two girls - and they are all quite healthy. The weight of babies is from 700 g to 1.9 kg. Seven of them immediately breathed on their own and were bottle fed. The whole family was discharged from the maternity hospital home in just a week.

The reaction of society to this "heroism" was ambiguous, but Nadia did not pay any attention to her.

There were also those who felt sorry for Nadia, believing that the poor thing had disfigured herself and would never get back into shape. However, a year after the birth of the octuplets, Suliman posed for the cover of a magazine in a swimsuit - with a story about how she was able to find an attractive appearance ...

Evil tongues claim that children for Suliman are now the only source of existence. A young mother has been sitting on the neck of the state for a long time, receiving benefits and food stamps. This "feat" of the unemployed Nadia caused only irritation among compatriots who do not want to pay for her passion for reproduction from their own pockets.

And indeed, with the birth of eight babies at once, fashion model Nadia Suliman became known all over the world. Photos of HER in late pregnancy, with an exorbitant bloated belly, appeared in many media.

And immediately after the birth, her agents appeared, who began to send out offers to agencies for paid photographs, interviews, etc. They said that Nadia wants to earn at least two million from these births.

According to average estimates, to support all 14 children under 17, Nadia will need from 1.3 to 2.7 million dollars, not including medical insurance. Realizing this, Nadia put a lot of effort into warming up the interest of the public. As a result, her large family was presented with a huge house. Volunteers help clean it up.

Having achieved this, Nadia continued to shock the public, appearing in unexpected images in front of the ubiquitous reporters.

Nadya Suleman caught the eye of the paparazzi by sneaking out of her California home to do routine household chores. She just took out the garbage and picked up the newspapers from the porch. But even these seemingly ordinary actions caused a storm of indignation among some of her fellow countrymen.

Nadia appeared on the street in striped pajamas, over which a white terry dressing gown was thrown over, and in monster slippers. The apogee was the green mask on Nadia's face. In it, she was very reminiscent of the hero of the movie "Mask". In her hands she carried two babies, and in ... her teeth a bottle of juice. By the way, Nadia looked great, well-groomed and pretty built ... "

The next storm of indignation was caused by an ordinary walk in the park among the public. Nadia and her 8-year-old son Elijah took the twins to the park in two huge strollers, each of which accommodated four babies.

In the park, Nadia laid her children on a blanket, spreading it right on the grass. Nadia dressed the girls in pink suits with the image of Minnie Mouse, and their brothers in green clothes with a picture of Winnie the Pooh.

“Walking with children, of course, can cause stress,” says an eyewitness to the picnic, “but this one looks like a real nightmare. There aren't enough hands to feed so many little mouths!

The kids screamed, pushed each other and their mother. Nadia reacted surprisingly calmly to all this bedlam. With the help of Elijah, she quickly and deftly fed all the children, and the peaceful family went home.

Suleman also opened a website in which she asked for help in order to feed her numerous offspring.

As a result, Nadia achieved the main goal - they signed a contract with her, and now a large family is being filmed in a reality show. For a day of filming, each family member is paid $250.

I have to admit, it's a wonderful feeling to watch eight little kids grow up!

They recently celebrated their eighth birthday and had a lot of fun!

During the day they were in the garden, and then they ate vegan pizza and cake.

Birthday was a success!

Raising children is not easy, but now it is already easier for Natalie, because they have grown up and become more responsible.

Not to mention no more diaper changes!

It's nice to see that this huge friendly family is doing well.

But the doctor Michael Kamrava, who performed the artificial insemination of Nadia, was much less fortunate.

The American Society for Reproductive Medicine said after giving birth to Nadia that the doctor "demonstrated behavior that grossly violated union standards." This means that it is not recommended to implant more than two embryos in women under 35, but Kamrava took six at once. Later, two of them separated, and Nadia gave birth to eight children at once. Michael Kamrava will no longer be able to continue his practice - the medical board of the state of California has deprived him of his professional license.

January 26, 2009 33-year-old Nadia Suliman gave birth to eight twins at once, and they are all healthy.

The mother of the newborn eight lives with her children and parents in the suburbs of Los Angeles in the small town of Whittier. The family is already growing six kids aged two to seven years, among whom there is a pair of twins.

The children's grandmother, Angela Suleman, left her job and devoted herself to her daughter's family. And grandfather, to help Nadia, went to Iraq to work under a contract.

Nadia herself claims that she decided to take this step because of her own childhood, in which she missed her brothers and sisters so much. In addition, the eccentric American said that she was following the example of her idol, the large Angelina Jolie. A few years ago, Suleman even had plastic surgery to look like an actress.

Eight were conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF).

But the Californian, with the support of her large family, refused to reduce. A single mother, she divorced her husband a long time ago precisely because they could not have children together.

It is known that the woman was observed at the Kaiser Permanente clinic from the 12th week of pregnancy, from the 23rd week the expectant mother was ordered to adhere to bed rest.

The reaction of society to this "heroism" was ambiguous. At first they were proud of her. There were also those who felt sorry for Nadia, believing that the poor thing had disfigured herself and would never get back into shape. However, a year after the birth of the eights, Suliman posed for the cover of a magazine in a swimsuit - with a story about how she was able to find an attractive appearance ...

But when the truth about Nadia's life surfaced, a scandal ensued. Many condemned the woman and said that with the help of children she was simply trying to become famous and earn money. As it turned out, six more children are waiting for a mother from California at home. Evil tongues claim that children for Suliman are now the only source of existence. A young mother has been sitting on the neck of the state for a long time, receiving benefits and food stamps. This "feat" of the unemployed Nadia caused only irritation among compatriots who do not want to pay for her passion for reproduction from their own pockets.

They planned to make a reality show from the life of the Suliman family, but over time, interest in them faded. According to Professor Helen Rapping, who studies media at the State University of New York, TV companies "are not willing to take the risk of investing money - Nadia is too inadequate to film a reality show."

Having achieved this, Nadia continued to shock the public, appearing in unexpected images in front of the ubiquitous reporters. Suleman also opened a website in which she asked for help in order to feed her numerous offspring.

As a result, Nadia achieved the main goal - they signed a contract with her, and now a large family is filmed in a reality show.

Here are 10 things that unexpectedly confuse the brain, revealing some surprising oddities in its structure and functioning that usually escape our notice.
1. Doors
Have you ever entered a room with a purpose, such as to take something, but completely forget why you came? It turns out that the doors are to blame for these strange memory lapses.
Psychologists at the University of Notre Dame have found that walking through doors triggers a phenomenon in the brain known as an “event boundary,” separating one set of thoughts and memories from another, as if walking through a door signals the end of a scene in a movie. The brain archives the thoughts that were in the previous room and prepares a blank slate for the new space. Mental event boundaries usually help organize thoughts and memories as we move through a continuous and dynamic world, but when we're trying to remember what we came to do... or take... or maybe find... they can be really annoying.
No wonder they say that in such cases you need to return to the place where the thought came to mind.
2. Moon
Usually the Moon is a pleasant nighttime companion, but sometimes it can cause mental breakdowns. When the Moon is low in the sky, it appears larger than when it is overhead, although the actual size, of course, remains the same. This phenomenon is known as the moon-on-the-horizon illusion, or the Ponzo illusion.
The most likely reason for the moon illusion is that we are accustomed to seeing clouds overhead at a distance of only a few kilometers, but we know that the clouds above the horizon are hundreds of kilometers away. If the cloud on the horizon is the same size as the ones above, despite the vast distance, we think: "That cloud is very big." And although the Moon is the same size above the horizon as it is above our head, we also perceive it to be much larger.
3. Electronic signals
Which is worse: the squeal of a digital alarm clock, the horns of a truck driving backwards, or the shrill reminders that the batteries in a smoke detector are low? Let's face it, all these sounds are terrible. Electronic signals are practically the musical accompaniment of the modern world, and they are unusually annoying, as they cause small brain malfunctions.
We evolved without electronic sounds, so we work hard to capture them. Natural sounds are created by the transfer of energy, often by striking one object against another, like a stick striking a drum. In this case, the energy is transferred to the drum and is gradually dissipated, which causes the sound to decay. Our perceptual system has evolved to use this attenuation to understand the event, it enables us to figure out what made the sound and where it came from. Well, electronic signals are like a car that hits a wall at a speed of 100 km / h instead of slowing down. They do not change with time, do not fade away and therefore confuse the brain, not allowing to determine their nature and source.
4. Photos
We evolved not only without electronic signals, but also without photographs. Your grandmother may learn to use the Internet, but she will never develop the appropriate intuitive skills. We also consciously understand photographs, but our subconscious cannot really separate them from the depicted objects or people. For example, research shows that people are much less accurate at throwing darts at pictures of friends, children, or loved ones, but still hit Hitler or their worst enemy well. Another study found that people become very anxious when they are asked to cut up photos of their most anticipated childhood acquisitions. Lacking millions of years of practice, our brains fail to separate image from reality.
5. Red-green
There is a color - red-green. It's as bright as red-blue (we call this color purple), but we don't have a word to describe it because we can't see it. Red-green gets into the blind spot of our brain.
This limitation is caused by how we perceive color. Cells in the retina called "opponent neurons" fire when exposed to red light, and this activity tells the brain that we're looking at something red. The same opponent neurons are inhibited in green light, and this lack of activity indicates the green color to the brain. While most colors cause a mixed effect on neurons that the brain can decode, red exactly cancels the effect of green, and therefore we can never perceive these colors mixed.
Well, almost never. Under special conditions in the laboratory, the eyes can be forced to perceive both red and green light at the same time. People who were lucky enough to participate in such a visual experiment talk about unforgettable impressions, as if they saw purple for the first time.
6. Wheels
Have you ever noticed how strange the wheels in movies look like they're spinning backwards? This is because television cameras capture static images of a scene at a certain frequency, and the brain fills in the gaps between those images, creating the illusion of continuous movement between identical frames. If the wheel is constantly spinning for several frames, the most obvious direction for the brain is the other way around, as it suggests the smallest difference between two frames.
However, in real life, the wheels can appear to be spinning in the opposite direction, which is even stranger. The main theory behind this illusion is that the brain's motion perception system samples the input signal as a series of intermittent frames, much like a TV camera. So our brain is constantly making its own movie of the outside world, but not always at the speed necessary to know that the wheels are turning in the right direction.
7. Bright light
Bright light causes people to sneeze. Allergic to sun rays? Doubtful. This is called the "light sneeze reflex" - a little-understood mental state when it enters from darkness into bright light.
In general, sneezing occurs involuntarily when an irritant enters the nose. However, this automatic reaction can also occur in the pupillary light reflex, when the pupils constrict in bright light. All reflexes require the transmission of a command along complex neural pathways in the brain. It is likely that mixed teams can produce unexpected results. Combine the sneeze and pupillary light reflexes and you can get responses to a single stimulus—bright light. Scientists cannot fully explain this phenomenon.
8. Vast open spaces
Moving through the desert, plain or dense forest, that is, territories without landmarks, people walk in circles. Experiments with blindfolded people demonstrate that, without external reference points, we move in a circle 20 meters in diameter, assuming that we are going straight. It turns out that the reason is not at all in the different length or strength of the legs. Vast open spaces literally loop the brain.
According to researchers from the German Institute for Biological Cybergenetics, moving in circles is the result of a change in the feeling of “straight ahead”. With each step, there is a small deviation in the vestibular (balancing) apparatus or in the proprioceptive (body perception) system that adds to the cognitive sense of what is "straight." These deviations accumulate, causing even smaller circles to be walked over time. This little brain glitch isn't possible when we're constantly rewiring our sense of direction with the nearest building or mountain.
9. Shadows
Our perception of shadows is an example of how the brain tries to help, but in the end fails. By trying to determine the color of a surface, the brain knows that the shadows make it darker than it really is. We make up for this difference by automatically making shadowed surfaces appear lighter than they actually appear to the eye. But since we have no control over this adjustment process, we cannot determine how much darker the shadow actually makes the subject, and this can be a problem.
This brain glitch is explained in the above optical illusion created by Professor Edward Edelson. But on a checkerboard, tile A looks much darker than tile B. But as you can see in the verification image below, A and B are actually the same color. We perceive tile B - the white square of the board in shadow - lighter than tile A - the dark square, despite the fact that the shadow made square B as dark as A. Stupid brain!
10. Phones
Have you ever had the feeling that your phone vibrates in your pocket or bag, and you took it out and made sure that there was no call? If you, like most people, ever experience these "illusory vibrations," it turns out it's because your brain is jumping to the wrong conclusions in an attempt to make sense of the chaos of life.
The brain constantly receives input from the senses, it must filter out useless noise and select important signals. In ancient times, people constantly mistook curved sticks in sight for snakes. Today, almost everyone uses electronic devices. Therefore, our brain misinterprets various noises, such as rustling clothes or grumbling in the stomach, instructing us to accept a call or message and causing the illusion of vibration of the phone.
from What? Where? When?

They appeared at the 31st week as a result of a caesarean section. The weight of each newborn did not exceed 1.5 kg. Fortunately, everyone survived - and immediately became famous. Just like their record-breaking mother. After all, when there are five or more embryos, the chance of safely carrying them out and giving birth is small.

Octomame ("eight" in Latin - "octo") Nadia Suleman, apparently, she was born to surprise. Before the birth of oktopyat, she was already the mother of six children, whom she gave birth to in 8 years. Thus, to her 33 Nadia had 14 heirs. For nothing that with the inheritance here just does not matter. The mother-heroine does not even have a husband. That is, one was Marco Gutierrez. But Nadia did not succeed in getting pregnant from him naturally, and Marco opposed the artificial one. So all children are the result of IVF, and their biological fathers are anonymous donors who are unlikely to ever help their offspring.

Posted by Solomon Family (@nataliesuleman) Jul 28, 2016 at 2:11 PDT

Imitation Jolie

It is not clear who will help now and Michael Kamrava— to the doctor who implanted the embryos into Nadya. After the details of the origin of oktopyat became public, he was deprived of his license for professional activity - women under 35 are not recommended to implant more than two embryos. And he planted 12!

The doctor made excuses: Nadya signed her consent to the experiment. She threw up her hands: she did not expect that it would turn out so much! Another time, she admitted that since childhood, as an only child, she dreamed of a large family. The woman's true motives are obscure. admired Angelina Jolie, underwent plastic surgery for the sake of resemblance to the actress, out of a desire to imitate her. Infantilism? Recklessness? If Suleman at least partly resembled a film star with her mind, it would obviously be useful.

No wonder that the American public in relation to Nadia was divided into two camps. Some were delighted and touched. Others accused her of wanting to sit on the neck of the state. After all, even all the procedures of the expensive IVF "pleasure" Nadya did with the money of the funds. And she supported her family on unemployment benefits and disability benefits for her three older children. She boldly exposed her “pregnant” belly to the photographers. And soon after giving birth, she already participated in the reality show Celebridate. She was ready to continue to arrange a soulful striptease, hoping to become a screen star in order to raise 10 boys and 4 girls to their feet. But... to watch how a woman performs the usual maternal duties (feeds - dresses - bathes babies) the audience quickly got tired. The show closed, and Suleman again began to seek donations. Only now her appearance in magazines or on TV caused a storm of indignation among the taxpayers. They no longer like the woman whom they considered a heroine yesterday. Nadya's father, who fought in Iraq, still tried to help her. Mother did not hide the fact that such a crowd was an unbearable burden for her.

The house in which Nadia lived with her children was put up for auction in the same 2009 due to debts ($1 million). And the social workers, who checked how the family lives, concluded that Suleman does not need state help. Nadya herself assured that before she managed with minimal help - food stamps. Cunning or not, one thing is clear: a woman entered the role of an octomam even before the birth of octuplets. Whatever you do, it's all for them. There was no time left for the children themselves.

Desperate to earn their daily bread in decent ways, Nadya set off in all serious ways. She excelled in the field of pornography and striptease, having received several prizes for her debut film Octomam Home Alone. “I looked very glamorous and for the first time I felt so sexy!” Nadia said. For the sake of the porn industry, she even went under the knife, having undergone several operations on her face and body - a fee of 100 thousand dollars was probably worth it. Suleman justified herself: “I did it only for the sake of money - so that the children would not be hungry.”

What is she suspected of?

Immediately after the birth of the octopus, Nadya had agents who agreed on paid photo shoots, interviews, and television shootings. Nadia created a website where she encouraged people to help her. But not everyone took pity on her. Someone wrecked Nadia's car. They threatened to deal with her PR people. Everything would be fine - so even the children harassed. Mom was nervous: at least climb into the noose. Once she blurted out in a temper: “We have no money either for housing or for food. I hate my kids! They are like vile animals ... ”And she posted a video on the Web in which the baby“ nibbles ”the wall - from hunger, obviously ... Nadia began taking psychotropic drugs, became addicted. And then - a new misfortune. Law enforcement authorities suspected her of concealing income from television filming (30 thousand dollars) and illegally receiving social benefits. If the guilt is proved, the octomam can be imprisoned for six years.

Fortunately, striptease and pornography for Suleman is in the past. True, it was not easy to quit this job. The manager threatened Nadia with a lawsuit for the same 30 thousand dollars for disrupting the photo shoot. Nadya gave in - but she was still deceived, having already taken away 50 thousand ... Then, returning home, Nadya saw her 10-year-old daughter flaunting her mother's stilettos. This was the last straw: the woman threw away everything that reminded her of the porn industry. Then she remembered that she had once studied to be a doctor, returned to her hometown of Orange and got a job. Now she herself provides psychological assistance to women and works with little autists. I switched my children to a healthy diet. And she even forbade herself to think about marriage: “I don’t have much time to take it from my children and spend it on just anyone.” This is understood by many. Now, after all, a new fad - everyone is fighting male sexism, isn't it? On weekends, the whole family goes to church. “Family and God are my life. Helping people is my mission, ”Nadya reports 3,000 of her followers on Instagram.

“For the sake of the children,” she tried to plunge into the show: she was chewed and spit out. Now the wind is blowing the other way. Will the new Vera Nadina save the cheerful family? As they say, God bless.

N adya gave birth to EIGHT children of "eights" (six boys and two girls), turning to the latest technologies - in vitro fertilization, already having six babies in her arms. And here is the result - now there is nowhere to put the children, practically.

January 26, 2009 33-year-old Nadia Suliman gave birth to eight twins at once, and they are all healthy.

The mother of the newborn eight lives with her children and parents in the suburbs of Los Angeles in the small town of Whittier. The family is already growing six kids aged two to seven years, among whom there is a pair of twins.

The children's grandmother, Angela Suleman, left her job and devoted herself to her daughter's family. And grandfather, to help Nadia, went to Iraq to work under a contract.

Eight were conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF). Doctors in such cases insist on the reduction (removal) of a part of the embryos. After all, such a number of them can adversely affect both the health of the mother and the health of future children.

But the Californian, with the support of her large family, refused to reduce. A single mother, she divorced her husband a long time ago precisely because they could not have children together.

It is known that the woman was observed at the Kaiser Permanente clinic from the 12th week of pregnancy, from the 23rd week the expectant mother was ordered to adhere to bed rest.

“I ruined my life, I ruined the life of my children ... What was I even thinking? What the hell did I do? I need to be strong and pretend like I don't regret it."

The single mom had a huge number of business plans: she applied for the registration of the Octomama brand, signed a contract for filming a reality show (3 years of filming were supposed to bring the Suleiman family 250 thousand dollars), asked for financial assistance from visitors to her website. ..

Unless she refused a role in a porn film, despite the proposed $ 1 million by the studio. But then the octomam admitted that she had not calculated her strength. It is very likely that the reason for this is not only babies that require constant attention and care, but also numerous threats against her from those who believed that Nadia gave birth to so many children solely for selfish purposes. Now Nadia has 14 children, three of them receive disability benefits. Newborns received biblical names, but all 8 children have the same middle name - Angel.

But when the truth about Nadia's life surfaced, a scandal ensued.

Many condemned the woman and said that with the help of children she was simply trying to become famous and earn money. As it turned out, six more children are waiting for a mother from California at home. Evil tongues claim that children for Suliman are now the only source of existence.

A young mother has been sitting on the neck of the state for a long time, receiving benefits and food stamps. This "feat" of the unemployed Nadia caused only irritation among compatriots who do not want to pay for her passion for reproduction from their own pockets.

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They planned to make a reality show from the life of the Suliman family, but over time, interest in them faded.

According to Professor Helen Rapping, who studies media at the State University of New York, TV companies "are not willing to take the risk of investing money - Nadia is too inadequate to film a reality show."

What happens to a large family today?

The mother of many children got into debt and was unable to feed her large family. Over the past three months, her landlord has repeatedly threatened her with eviction.

Octomama intends to sell its 240-square-meter mansion with three bedrooms and three bathrooms for $525,000. As it became known, in 2009, Father Suleman bought it for 585 thousand dollars, but today the balance of payments for the house to its owner Amer Haddadin is 450 thousand dollars.

In Orange County, Suleman lived with her fourteen children for more than two years.

The California clinic where Suleman gave birth was fined twice totaling more than $400,000. The reason for imposing fines was violations of the confidentiality of information about the patient committed by the management of the clinic.

In June 2011, reproductologist Michael Kamrava, who, contrary to the instructions, transferred 12 embryos into Suleman's uterus during IVF, lost his license. The corresponding decision was made by the California State Medical Board.

After the birth of the eight, Suleman repeatedly complained about financial difficulties. To improve her financial situation, in May 2010 she participated in an advertising campaign dedicated to the sterilization of animals. In July 2011, in an interview, a woman admitted that she regrets the birth of all her children.

But this is not a record yet!

It was staged by a mother from the USA, Ekaterina Most, who gave birth to 17 children! Unlike Nadia, Ekaterina is married and had problems conceiving, which is why the couple decided to use the IVF method. The result was unexpected - 17 children and all boys. Childbirth lasted 29 hours. Her doctor said that it was like a nightmare: the children kept walking and walking one after another and there was no end in sight.

The names were chosen by similarity:

James, Jacob, Jarod, Jarvis, Jason, Jeffrey, Jeremy, Jerome, Jesse, Jimmy, Joachim, Jonathan, Jonas, Joseph, Julian, Jimbo and amazingly Darth Porkinus.

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