Octuplets mom obsessed with having kids: Grandma

The woman who gave birth to octupletsu00a0last week has been obsessed with having children since she was a teenager and conceived all 14 of her children through in vitro fertilization, her mother said.

Angela Suleman said she was not supportive when her daughter, Nadya (33), decided to have more embryos implanted last year. "It can't go on any longer," she said. "She's got six children and no husband. I was brought up the traditional way. I firmly believe in marriage. But she didn't want to get married."

Nadya is expected to remain in the hospital for at least a few more days, and her newborns for at least a month.

A spokeswoman at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center said the babies were progressing daily, with all eight breathing unassisted and being tube-fed.

While her daughter recovers, Angela is taking care of the other six children, ages 2 through 7. She said she warned her daughter that when she gets home from the hospital, "I'm going to be gone."

Angela said her daughter always had trouble conceiving and underwent in vitro fertilization treatments because her fallopian tubes are "plugged up."

There were frozen embryos left over after her previous pregnancies and her daughter didn't want them destroyed, so she decided to have more children.

Her mother and doctors have said the woman was told she had the option to abort some of the embryos and, later, the fetuses. She refused.

Angela said she does not believe her daughter will have any more children. "She doesn't have any more (frozen embryos), so it's over now," she said. "It has to be."

The news that Nadya already had six children has sparked an ethical debate. Some medical experts were disturbed to hear that she was offered fertility treatment, and troubled by the possibility that she was implanted with so many embryos.