Dr. Mandhir Gupta, a neonatalist, said all but one of the octuplets are now breathing on their own.

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So in the early days, at least, the octuplets' parents will be dealing with about 56 nappies per day and a whopping 392 nappies per week.

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Nkem Chukwu gave birth to octuplets in 1998.

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As is well known now, Nadya Suleman, a 33-year-old single mother of six surviving on food stamps and Social Security disability payments, gave birth to the nation's first set of octuplets on Jan. 26, bringing her total brood to 14.

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And while vocal responses to most anything are always liable to be skewed, Furtney's firm chose to withdraw its representation of Suleman, plus it briefly took down a Web site that featured the octuplets but that was crashing under a voluminous number of unhappy well wishes.

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The babies' mother, who is recovering from her Caesarean section, has not been able to visit the babies in their incubators, but is "very excited" when hospital staffers bring her pictures, said Dr. Mandhir Gupta, director of neonatology for Kaiser Permanente's Bellflower Medical Center in Bellflower, California, where the octuplets were born.

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