Given that more details are beginning to surface concerning a woman who has recently given birth to octuplets, even more questions are now being asked, mainly regarding ethical issues, since the woman was already mother of six before she had delivered.

Kaiser Permanente's Bellflower Medical Center has reported that both the mother and her babies were doing well, with seven of them breathing unassisted, while one was receiving assisted oxygen through a tube in the nose.

Moreover, the medical institution informed that seven of the babies were being fed donated breast milk.

Nevertheless, the issue of how the woman managed to get pregnant with eight children remains shrouded in a blur. On Thursday, her mother stated for the Los Angeles Times that her daughter had undergone fertility treatment, while she had had the embryos implanted the previous year.

Still M. Sara Rosenthal, a bioethicist at the University of Kentucky's College of Medicine, said that implanting that many embryos was highly irresponsible and unethical of a fertility clinic, adding that a situation of the like was appalling and that it should not happen.

Furthermore, doctors say that giving birth to extreme multiples poses great risks for both the mother and the babies, the ones for the latter including bleeding in the brain, intestinal problems, developmental delays and lifelong learning disabilities.

Robert George, professor at Princeton University and member of the U.S. President's Council on Bioethics, revealed that in several European countries such as Germany and Italy, the maximum number of embryos that are to implanted is set at three, and added that those countries needed to be taken as an example.