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Octo-Ho-Ho ... Nadya with her eight toddlers

IF you thought YOU were busy this Christmas, imagine what it was like for "Octomom" Nadya Suleman.

Our exclusive pictures of the 34-year-old with her brood look as though they were taken at a creche rather than at someone's home.
Tree-mendous ... Nadya with all 14 of her children


THIS is what the eight babies get through in a week.
280 nappies
56 pints of milk
600 baby wipes
2 large boxes of washing powder
168 bibs

And her eight new babies only make up some of the family - there are another SIX kids, ranging in age from two to eight.
Single mum Nadya hit the headlines when she gave birth to Isaiah, Jonah, Nariya, Maliya, Noah, Makai, Jeremiah and Josiah in January.
For her first Christmas with her 14-strong clan, Nadya limited the number of presents for the babies to two each.
All eight ... at five months

Nadya said: "I focused on developmental and educational type toys.
"Santa showed up big time for the older kids - bicycles, skateboards, rollerblades.
"The younger kids got stuffed toys, art and craft things and a toy gun here or there."
She might be fine with the odd toy gun, but when seven-year-old Amerah asked Santa for a puppy, gerbil, hamster or guinea pig, Mum put her foot down.
Nadya said: "I don't want anything alive in the house - other than children and maybe some fish." The babies have also received presents from all over the world.
Nadya, from California, says: "We've mostly had presents from people in England. People have been very generous.
"Some have made clothes and sent toys for the eight as well as blankets and stuffed animals. Thank you all so much!"
First Yule at home ... Nadya and tots

Christmas day in Nadya's packed house started off with a trip to church for the older kids, followed by the unwrapping of presents and relaxing. But there was no turkey.
Instead, Nadya and her FOUR nannies whipped up a rather unusual Christmas feast.
She said: "I had five main dishes. Meatloaf, spaghetti, cheese sandwiches, vegetables and California stew, which is a beef-based stew with lots of healthy vitamins that the older children love."
And while the rest of us might be counting the cost of Christmas, our spending won't be anything like Nadya's.
She said: "It costs at least $1,000 (?626) a week to feed all my children.
"We are going through a dozen eggs per day, boxes of cereal and gallons of milk every week."
Nadya admits the world was outraged at her demand that EIGHT embryos be implanted via IVF, despite the risks to her and the babies.