Octuplets mom fears no chance to raise babies

This image provided by Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center shows the nursing staff posing for a photograph after delivering octuplets to a mother last Monday in Bellflower, California.(Photo: China Daily)
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BEIJING, Feb. 26 (Chinese medianet) -- The Los Angeles woman who gave birth to octuplets last month fears she may not get the chance to raise her eight newborns.

Talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw told the Los Angeles

Times that Nadya Suleman called him Tuesday afternoon, distressed after talking

to hospital officials who are concerned she can't handle the load.

"What she is telling me is that unless and until she

has a better living arrangement, that they are not likely to release the

children to her," McGraw told The Times.

Suleman, a 33-year-old single mother who already had

six children before giving birth to octuplets Jan. 26, lives in Whittier with

her mother in a three-bedroom house that is in pre-foreclosure. Suleman has no

job and relies on government assistance, including food stamps and disability

income for three of her six older children.

There was no immediate response to an NBC request for

comment from Kaiser Permanente, the hospital.

Jim Anderson, Kaiser Permanente Southern California's

director of media relations, told The Times "any conversation that the mother

may or may not have had on this topic are private and we cannot discuss them."

The octuplets were born two months early, weighing 1

pound, 8 ounces to 3 pounds, 4 ounces each. They are all breathing on their own

and in stable condition.

(Agencies)