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An unidentified woman gave birth to nine-week-premature octuplets by cesarean section in a southern California hospital. Multiple births usually inspire the adorable-yet-exasperating style of coverage evinced in anchor Brian Williams's exclamation--"Wow!"--on NBC or that by ABC anchor Charles "eight, count 'em, eight" Gibson: "Overwhelming for that mother--overwhelming just to hear the story." So it was a refreshing and honest departure from those cliches when Mike von Fremd interspersed his corny cartoon visions of mountains of diapers on ABC's A Closer Look with a severe caution from Dr Richard Paulson of the USC Medical Center: "From the fertility point of view this is a very, very serious medical complication of fertility care and we do our best, actually, to avoid it as much as possible." From New York, NBC's in-house physician Nancy Snyderman pitched in with the medical pitfalls that threaten the eight newborns--"heart or lung problems, seizures and jaundice."
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