Octuplets Update: The Babies Are Doing Fine

By Howard Breuer and Johnny Dodd

Nadya Suleman's eight infants, who have a good time their one-month birthday Thursday, are slowly gaining weight and making regular features with the event of their respiratory and digestive systems.

"The infants proceed making small, incremental progress each day," says Mandhir Gupta, MD, neonatologist at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center.

The infants, all of whom are still within the hospital’s neonatal unit, are off respirators, respiratory room air and drinking donated breast milk. "None of them have handed the four-pound mark," says Kaiser spokeswoman Socorro L. Serrano.

The beginning weight of the heaviest was 3.25 lbs. and is now 3.61 lbs. The littlest baby, a boy who was 1.5 pounds at birth, is now 1.seventy six lbs.

Serrano provides that, regardless of the infants' comparatively small weight positive factors, the octuplets are all wholesome and have no bodily complications. "It simply takes time for them to realize weight," says Serrano. "It's like watching grass grow."

In an interview aired Wednesday on the Dr. Phil, Suleman stated that the healthiest of her babies can be coming house "in a number of weeks."

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