A US woman has given birth to eight babies , becoming just the second person recorded in the US to have delivered a set of living octuplets.
There was the case of a Russian mother who gave birth to 69 children in the span of 40 years from 1725 to 1765.
Having so many babies at the same time can be a blessing if the parents have the means and the time to support them. It can be fantastic to have a big family all of a sudden. But the effort and the cost of raising a child in today’s world isn’t so easy.
For many parents, the beauty of having many children is that they come one by one. At least parents enjoy having babies over a period of time.
For woman who is past 40 and has never had children before, it must be a good thing for her to have a triplet or a quadruplet as she will have secured having more than one child before the menopause. For a young mother, it must be difficult as she will have to care for more than one baby at a time, which can be burden on her physical health, mainly when it comes to sleep deprivation during the first years of the new born babies.
