A 45-year-old mother who famously welcomed eight wonderful children via IVF in 2009 celebrated the 12th birthday of her octuplets.
Octomom Nadya Suleman from Los Angeles shared a photo of her brood on Instagram, writing: “Happy 12th birthday to 8 of the most kind, caring, and respectful kids I have ever known.
“Your compassion for all living things and value of humbly serving others is the definition of love.”
Nadya’s post continued: “You make my heart full, and have blessed our lives abundantly. I am honored to be your mother. I love you Noah, Maliyah, Isaiah, Nariyah, Jeremiah, Jonah, Josiah, and Makai.
“I know grandma would be incredibly proud, and is lovingly looking down upon you from above.”
Nadya also shared photos of her brood smiling for the camera while wearing animal onesies.
Nadya was 21 and divorced when she started IVF in 1997. She used the money from the settlement she received after she suffered a back injury at her workplace.
Her first child, Elijah, was born in 2001. Then her daughter, Amerah, was born in 2002. She got pregnant three more times via IVF, once with twins named Caleb and Calyssa.
She still had 12 embryos left in 2008 when Beverly Hills fertility specialist Dr. Michael Kamrava transferred them all into her uterus.
The two have different stories on whose idea it was to put all twelve embryos inside her but Dr. Kamrava lost his medical license in the US in 2011, the New York Times reported.
When Nadya delivered her octuplets via c-section in 2009, more than 40 doctors and nurses were there to perform the procedure.
Her children became the longest surviving set of octuplets to be born in the US.
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