All the attention of the Suleman octuplet saga has been focused on the mom and fertility doctor, but today it has shifted to the eight tiny infants.Nadya Suleman, 33, the single mother whose octuplets were delivered two weeks ago, introduced her babies to the world today.
The eight brothers and sisters, expected to remain in the Californian hospital for the next two weeks, have mainly been given Biblical names.
"Hi, Maliah, your eyes are open,” Ms Suleman
said to the first child. "This is Noah and he's doing well. He's blond, the only one with blond hair."She said that Jonah, the smallest baby, was the troublemaker and that Isaiah was beginning to recognise her voice. Jeremiah is being treated for jaundice and she apologised to Nariah, McCai and Josiah for making only a brief visit to the hospital.
"I wish I could stay all day long, but I can't," she said to the children on NBC television. “Your brothers and sisters at home want to see you ... I can't wait until they're all together. We are not a whole family."
Ms Suleman’s mother, who was at home looking after the other six children, sounded distinctly less impressed in an interview last night.
Angela Suleman described the decision by her daughter to have eight more babies using IVF treatment as unconscionable.
“She already has six beautiful children, why would she do this?” she said. “I’m struggling to look after her six. We had to put in bunk beds, feed them in shifts and there’s children’s clothing piled all over the house.”
All 14 children were conceived after sperm donation by the same friend of Ms Suleman and she used the same doctor for all of her IVF treatment.
source: timesonline.co.uk
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