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Six girls and two boys as yet unnamed were born to  27-year old Nigerian-born Nkem Chukwu.

The babies, six girls and two boys as yet unnamed, were being monitored on a ``minute-to-minute basis'' in the neonatal intensive care unit at Texas Children's Hospital, they said. Seven of them were on ventilators.

The first girl was born normally on Dec. 8, 12 weeks premature. (However, she died on Dec 27, 1998.) But labor was delayed and the other seven were delivered by caesarian section, 10 weeks premature, Sunday Dec 20.

They weighed between 10 ounces (320 grams) and 1 pound 10 ounces (810 grams) at birth.

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