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They are already 13 years old. How fate unfolded and what the world’s first octagonals and their mother look like today

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The most well-known example of octagonals who survived after birth will be celebrated thirteen years later on January 26, 2022. On January 26, 2009, six boys and two girls were born in the US by cesarean section. Without a father figure in her life, 34-year-old Nadia Suleman took on the additional responsibility of parenting fourteen children. She was already juggling six.
Even though Suleman's doctor transferred 12 embryos, all of her children were born via in vitro fertilization, and she now says that he deceived her.
Due to the doctor's license being revoked for unethical reasons, IVF in the US was subject to more scrutiny after Suleman's case.
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