Octomom Nadya Suleman - Woman Who Gives Birth to Octuplets

Noah, Isaiah, Nariyah, Josiah, Jeremiah, Jonah, Makai and Maliyah are only the second complete set of octuplets to be born alive in the US. After a week of their birth, they finally surpassed the previous worldwide survival rate for a full set of octuplets set by the Chukwu octuplets in 1998.

Also known as Nadya Suleman, this single mother who went for a fertility treatment also said that she hates her ‘disgusting’ babies and has called her older six children ‘animals’ – because they are getting more and more out of control and she had no time to properly discipline them. All of her offspring are said to have the same sperm-donor father.

Suleman, who was labeled with the moniker “Octomom”, is the only child of Edward Doud Suleman (Assyrian Iraqi American) and Angela Victoria. Her parents married in 1974 and divorced in 1990.

Public reaction turned negative when they discovered that miss Suleman already had six other young children, was unemployed and on public assistance programs. Suleman who born in Fullerton California also said that she was so poor until she had even contemplated suicide. Locking herself in the bathroom and cry was the thing she often do in order to calm herself down. She told that she had no money to pay for her children’s food, school or the mortgage. However, she tried very hard to move forward with her life and be the best mother she can.

In 1996, Suleman married Marco Gutierez but in 2000 they separated. In an interview with Gutierez, he said that their marriage collapsed after attempts to start a family failed. Nadya was so desperate until she wanted to try in vitro fertilization, but then Gutierez disliked the idea of test tube babies, so he refused.

Her octuplets are two female and six male children conceived via in vitro fertilization conducted by Doctor Michael Kamrava. It has been found out that the doctor implanted 12 embryos and because of this, his license has been revoked by the Medical Board of California. The octuplet’s maternal grandfather, a former Iraqi military man named Edward Doud Suleman said that he would return to his native Iraq as a driver and translator in order to support his daughter financially. Their grandmother, a retired teacher named Angela Victoria Suleman, has helped to look after the first six children.