TV ratings were astronomically high for the Season 5 premiere of Jon & Kate Plus 8  where Jon and Kate Gosselin discussed their much talked about marriage and relationship problems.

After Kate tearfully said ”Parents of multiples have triple the divorce rate, and [we were] thinking we were gonna beat that. But I don’t know if I can say that anymore,” my youngest daughter looked at me and said “that must be why you and dad divorced.” 

I do remember when my twins were preemies, the social worker told us we should seek counseling as parents of preemies have double the divorce rate. Add on the “parents of multiples” card, the “we married too young” card, and then there was the “my husband is cheating on me” card and we were doomed.  In this growing society and numerous card factors, it seems everyone is doomed!

Jon & Kate Gosselin’s personal website is SixGosselins.com, but is currently overloaded with traffic that they exceeded their bandwidth, and I’m thinking they have other things to think about than upgrade their hosting package.

A decade and a half ago, I gave birth to two girls (yesterday was my twins’ Macy & Mallory’s 15th birthday).  Can you imagine giving birth to two girls PLUS six boys?! Yesterday, a woman California gave birth via C-Section to octuplets nine weeks premature.

The medical team had prepared to deliver seven babies, but doctors were surprised when an eighth came out! The babies weighed in at between 1lb 8 ounces (820 g) and 3 lb 4 oz (1.47 kg) and are all reportedly doing well.

The United States’ first live-born set of octuplets was delivered in Texas in 1998, but the parents hail from Nigeria.  One of the babies died a week later, leaving seven that are currently all happy and healthy 10-year olds.  They were guests on the Today Show this morning with their younger sister, thus still giving the appearance of eight.  They have their own website at FirstOctuplets.com. I can’t even imagine having that many babies at once…