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All octuplets out of hospital

Nadya Suleman has all her babies home. The last of the world's longest surviving set of octuplets was released from a hospital in suburban Los Angeles on Monday night after spending more than two months in the neonatal intensive care unit.

Jonah, the smallest of the octuplets, born nine weeks premature on Jan 26, has gone home to join his brothers and sisters, a spokeswoman with Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center said. Jonah weighed just 0.67 kg. Hospital officials say he now weighs 2.09 kg, and is able to bottle feed. "He stayed a little longer because he needed to gain weight," hospital spokeswoman Socorro Serrano said.