Surviving Octuplets Born for Second Time Ever

Doctors Karen Maples, left with Harold Henry, right, and Mandhir Gupta, center, take questions at a...

Doctors Karen Maples, left with Harold Henry, right, and Mandhir Gupta, center, take questions at a news conference at the Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center in Bellflower, Calif., Monday, Jan. 26, 2009. A mother gave birth to eight babies in the hospital south of Los Angeles, the world's second live-born set of octuplets.

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First Octuplet Birth

The first-known octuplets were born to Nkem Chukwu in Houston and they just celebrated their 10th birthday.

Chukwu is likely the only person on Earth who knows what the California woman endured.

"It wasn't easy," Chukwu told "GMA." "If I say it's easy, that means I'm lying. It wasn't easy."

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One of Chukwu's babies died a week after birth, but the other seven are happy and healthy.

As far as raising the group, Chukwu had simple advice for the new mother.

"They should just have fun, sleep when they can, plan things around their children and get help," she said. "They need help. They need support."