Octuplet's Mom Resting While Father Is In Vitro

Nadya Suleman, the woman who gave birth to octuplets was already a mother of six by the time she ended an eight-year marriage last year, though all the children came from in vitro fertilization — not from her ex-husband.
Nadya Suleman was married to Marcos Gutierrez in 1996, and the couple separated in 2000. Gutierrez filed for the divorce, which was finalized in January 2008.
The births of the octuplets has the medical community aghast as to why a mother of six was given fertility treatment. Nadya still has not given interviews and no pictures have been released.
A review of divorce papers by The Associated Press shows Gutierrez is the father of a boy named Samuel, but he was not subject to joint-custody. Suleman is not the boy's mother.
Suleman had six children by in vitro fertilization by the time the divorce was finalized. Those children are now ages 2 to 7, and include a pair of fraternal twins.
Two years before her divorce, Suleman earned a degree in child and adolescent development from California State University, Fullerton. As late as last spring she was studying for a master's degree in counseling, college spokeswoman Paula Selleck said.
Suleman was employed by a mental hospital from 1997 through 2008, but her income remains unclear.
The 33-year-old's identity and hometown remained anonymous for several days until a neighbor's tip led media to her home in Whittier, about 15 miles east of Los Angeles.
Still, neither the woman nor her world famous newborns have been introduced to the public. They remain in a hospital in Bellflower where they all appear to doing better.
The babies, born nine weeks premature on Jan. 26, were breathing without assistance and being tube-fed Wednesday.
"The babies are all getting stronger every day," Suleman's mother, Angela Suleman, told The Associated Press.
The woman, who spoke briefly at her front door in Whittier while children could be heard playing inside the house, said doctors hadn't determined when her daughter would return home.
"It will probably be a few more days," she said.
source: LA Times