Nadya Suleman's eight babies, who celebrate their one-month birthday Thursday, are slowly gaining weight and making steady gains with the development of their respiratory and digestive systems.
"The babies continue making small, incremental progress each day," says Mandhir Gupta, MD, neonatologist at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center.
The infants, all of whom are still in the hospital’s neonatal unit, are off respirators, breathing room air and drinking donated breast milk. "None of them have passed the four-pound mark," says Kaiser spokeswoman Socorro L. Serrano.
The birth 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 1.76 lbs.
Serrano adds that, despite the infants' relatively small weight gains, the octuplets are all healthy and have no physical complications. "It just takes time for them to gain weight," says Serrano. "It's like watching grass grow."
In an interview aired Wednesday on the Dr. Phil, Suleman said that the healthiest of her babies would be coming home "in a few weeks."
I have a question. Why is the hospital allowing photographers and camera crews to parade through the neonatal intensive care? The Suleman Octuplets can't be the only babies in there.
Vivid Entertainment offered Octo-Mom $1 million (with a health plan) to appear in a number of their porn movies for one year, but Nadya Suleman is just saying, "No," to a "skin flick" career.
"I think it's kind of funny that I got offered a million dollars to make porn," Suleman begins adding, "those guys at Vivid video must be nuts! Who wants to see me naked? Maybe in a year when the baby fat goes away." she jokes.
Still, Octo-Mom admits she'd never let Vivid get off that cheap. "Of course, if I have more kids I may have to ask for two million dollars."
Huh? More kids?!
Gathering back her modesty - and senses - Suleman stresses that she's not that kind of girl. "Seriously, though, my mum didn't bring me up like that. Besides, what will my 14 kids think when they grow up?"
And apparently she's a romantic at heart. "Despite what people think of my methods to get pregnant, I believe in love and romance. Not cheap thrills that belittle women."
Somebody should tell Nadya that her baby belly won't be going away without the help of a really good plastic surgeon.
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