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Overnight Hope-a-Dope

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Ben Hur1/30/2009 8:18:12 am PST

WTF?!?

The California woman who gave birth to octuplets earlier this week has six other kids and never expected to have eight more when she took fertility treatment, her mother said.

Angela Suleman said her daughter expects a big challenge raising 14 children - but that the good news is that all the babies are healthy.

“I looked at those babies. They are so tiny and so beautiful,” Suleman told The Los Angeles Times on Thursday.

At birth, the infants ranged in weight between 1 pound, 8 ounces and 3 pounds, 4 ounces.

Suleman’s daughter gave birth to the octuplets on Monday at a Los Angeles-area hospital, but has requested that doctors keep her name confidential.

Little was known about the woman until a family friend told CBS’ “The Early Show” on Thursday that the mother is “fairly young” and lives with her parents and six other children.

The woman’s other kids range in age from seven to two.

Making matter worse, Suleman said her daughter had embryos implanted last year, and after finding out she was pregnant with multiple babies was given the option by doctors of selectively reducing the number of embryos.

Suleman said her daughter declined.

“Fairly young” single mother of six living at home given fertility treatments?

Revoke their license!