Doctors Gradually Sending 8 Siblings Home
POSTED: 6:15 am EDT March 18, 2009
UPDATED: 6:18 am EDT March 18, 2009
LA HABRA, Calif. -- Two of the world's longest-surviving octuplets are home from the hospital.
The homecoming came Tuesday night as dozens of neighbors and media gathered outside the octuplets' new home in La Habra, about 25 miles southeast of Los Angeles.
Scores of photographers, reporters and gawkers who had staked out her new house for hours clung to her vehicle as she arrived home late Tuesday in a homecoming reminiscent of the scenes that have surrounded Hollywood's infamous celebutantes in recent years.
One neighbor who did not identify herself described the crowd's behavior as "ridiculous."
The octuplets were born Jan. 26 in Southern California to 33-year-old Nadya Suleman, a divorced, unemployed mother who already had six children.
The babies had been in the hospital for several weeks after being born nine weeks premature. Two of the infants were brought home after social workers toured the family's new four-bedroom, three-bath home and deemed it fit to live there. The rest of the octuplets are to be similarly gradually integrated.
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