Nadya Suleman, a 33-year-old California woman, gave birth to octuplets on January 26, 2009, at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Bellflower, near Los Angeles, California. It was only the second set of octuplets to be born in the U.S. The births included 6 boys and 2 girls ranging from 1 pound, 8 ounces, to 3 pounds, 4 ounces.The Sun: Questions Over Octuplets (January 30 2009) FoxNews.com: 8 Babies Born to Stunned California Parents (January 27, 2009)

In February 2009 Nadya Suleman launched a Web site where the public can donate money to the family.Fox News: Web Site Created to Accept Donations for Octuplets' Mom (February 11, 2009)

The octuplets born on Monday, January 26, 2009 were born nine weeks premature, but were all healthy. The six boys and two girls, being dubbed A-H, were all off ventilators the next morning. Doctors cautioned that some of the babies may end up needing to be put on ventilators again, however, and would probably remain in the hospital for two months.FoxNews.com: 8 Babies Born to Stunned California Parents (January 27, 2009) The babies will remain in incubators for six weeks, and the mother will breastfeed them.BBC: US woman gives birth to octuplets (January 27, 2009)

On the family's Web site launched in February 2009, Suleman says that the babies are healthy and "growing stronger every day".

Suleman already had had six children by artificial insemination, ages 2 to 7, before she gave birth to eight babies. Suleman divorced her husband Marcos Gutierrez in January 2008 and lives with her mother in Whittier, California.Los Angeles Times: Octuplets' mother already has twins, four other children ABC News: Octuplets' Mom: Can She Afford to Raise 14 Kids? (January 31, 2009)

A former partner of Nadya Suleman thinks he may be the 'father' of the octuplets and wants a DNA test.BBC: Octuplet 'father' wants DNA tests (February 24, 2009)

On January 30, 2009, CBS News reported that ""the family...filed for bankruptcy and abandoned a home a little over a year-and-a-half ago."CBS News: Octuplets' Family Filed For Bankruptcy (January 30, 2009)

The mother of the octuplets was reported to be 33-year-old Nadya Suleman, by the British tabloid, The Sun.The Sun: Questions Over Octuplets (January 30 2009) Nadya's mother, Angela Suleman, said in addition to the new octuplets, her daughter had six other children at home—including a set of twins. Suleman said her daughter had embryos implanted last year, and doctors later gave her the option of selective reduction, which she refused. Los Angeles Times: Octuplets' mother already has twins, four other children

The birth of the octuplets raised controversy because medical guide lines recommend the implant of two to three embryos for women of Suleman's age, who was 33 when the octuplets were born. The Medical Board of California is looking into the incident to see if there was a "violation of care" in the treatment.San Francisco Chronicle: Octuplets mom identifies her fertility clinic (February 9, 2009)

Suleman said the treatment for the in vitro fertilization that resulted in the octuplets was provided by a physician at the West Coast IVF Clinic in Beverly Hills, formerly known as the West Coast Infertility Medical Clinic. The treatment is believed to have been provided by the clinic's medical director Michael Kamrava.San Francisco Chronicle: Octuplets mom identifies her fertility clinic (February 9, 2009)

Suleman has been on the receiving end of may nasty comments, emails and even death threats. As the controversy hit its peak her publicist quit and her publisher decided to drop her story.USAToday: Octuplets' mother faces public backlash (February 19, 2009)