(2008) Multiple Bles8ings: Surviving to Thriving with Twins and Sextuplets. By Jon and Kate Gosselin. (ISBN: 9780310289029)

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About This Book: Just three years after giving birth to twin daughters, Kate and Jon Gosselin learned they were pregnant again-with sextuplets. In Multiple Blessings, Kate chronicles the emotional and exhausting journey she and Jon made from the time the babies were conceived through the first two years of their lives. After struggling to carry and deliver all six babies, then coping with months of neonatal intensive care, Jon and Kate thought they'd made it through the hardest part of the journey. Not even close. Stress-filled days and sleepless nights became their world as she and Jon managed to feed, bathe, clothe, and monitor the health of their fragile infants without losing sight of their love for each other and the twins. This is an honest and uplifting story of faith. It's the story of a young couple who trusted in the ever present hand of a faithful God to provide the strength and courage they needed to face seemingly impossible challenges one day at a time.

Synopsis: Eight children in three years? Impossible! Kate and Jon Gosselin have learned that, through God, all things are possible---though sometimes slightly improbable. Just three years after giving birth to twin daughters, Kate and Jon learned they were pregnant again---with sextuplets. In Multiple Blessings, Kate candidly chronicles the emotional and exhausting challenges she and Jon faced from the time the babies were conceived through the first two years of their lives. This amazing story of faith provides a heartening lesson in what it means to trust the faithful hand of God to provide the strength and courage to make it through life's seemingly impossible situations.

About The Authors: Jon & Kate Plus 8, named Kate Plus 8 from the sixth season on, Was an American reality television series airing on TLC. It is produced by Figure 8 Films about the Gosselin family, consisting of parents Jon and Kate and their eight children: fraternal twins and sextuplets. The show follows the family through their daily lives, focusing on the challenges of raising multiple children. The show was one of the highest rated programs on TLC during its run, with the fifth season premiere seen by a record 9.8 million viewers, the most watched show of that evening including broadcast television, twice as many viewers as the show’s previous series high.

The family originally appeared in two one-hour specials titled Surviving Sextuplets and Twins and Sextuplets and Twins: One Year Later. The show originally aired on Discovery Health, but then aired on TLC from the third season on.

On September 29, 2009, following the Gosselins' separation, TLC announced that as of November 2, the program would undergo a name change, to Kate Plus 8^[3], focusing on Kate as a divorced mother raising eight children with Jon appearing less frequently.^[3] However, filming was later suspended due to Jon's lawyers delivering letters to TLC demanding that they cease and desist production and barred production crews from the couple's Pennsylvania property on October 1, 2009. This led to putting the show's revamping on hold. TLC planned for "a series of specials" if the series did not go into production.

The show had become "too sad even for fans". The final episode of Jon & Kate Plus 8 aired on November 23, 2009, announced by TLC three days earlier. The revamped Kate Plus Eight format premiered on June 6, 2010. The second season of Kate Plus 8 premiered on November 28, 2010. However, On August 15, 2011, TLC cancelled Kate Plus 8 and said that the show will end after it hits 150 episodes

Family history: Kate is one of five children; she has three sisters and a brother. Jon is the middle child of three boys. The couple met on October 5, 1997 at a picnic and they were married on June 12, 1999.

The Gosselins' desire to start a family was impeded by infertility. Kate underwent medical testing and was diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome. The couple then turned to fertility treatments. In February 2000, Kate became pregnant with twins. Cara Nicole was born six minutes before her sister Madelyn Kate on October 8, 2000.

They began thinking of having more children and, according to Kate, a biracial infant of a teenage girl named Jamie became available to adopt while Kate was an obstetrics nurse. They decided not to adopt baby Jeremiah, as he was later named, but instead returned to fertility treatment. In November 2003, Kate became pregnant again. Five weeks later, (after being hospitalized for over-stimulated ovaries) at the initial ultrasound, the doctor announced that there were six sacs with seven yolks (embryos). According to Kate, this was emotional news for them. The doctor suggested selective reduction, but the couple was strongly against it.

The sextuplets were born on May 10, 2004, ten weeks premature, which is common in multiple births, at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania, and were named Alexis Faith, Hannah Joy, Aaden Jonathan, Collin Thomas, Leah Hope and Joel Kevin. All six children were delivered via C-section within a span of three minutes with 75 doctors, nurses and other specialists involved. Because the sextuplets were born in Hershey, they were called "Hershey's Kisses" by the nurses and doctors who delivered them. In late 2008, the family moved from their Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania home to a larger residence in Lower Heidelberg Township, Pennsylvania.

Divorce: In April 2009, it was reported that Jon was having an affair after he was spotted late one night with various women and leaving with one of them. The couple denied these allegations, saying the woman Jon left with was just a friend. However, the woman's brother insists that she was romantically involved with Jon. This is supported by the existence of video and photographs of Jon with a woman named Deanna Hummel. Kate has also been accused of having a personal relationship with one of her bodyguards, Steve Neild. Kate has denied the allegations, stating that she requires a bodyguard for protection.

Kate has said these issues will be addressed throughout the fifth season of their show. In the season premiere, the incident was addressed by both Jon and Kate. Throughout the episode, they stated they are devoted to their children and vehemently rejected the cheating allegations, but agreed that they are unsure about where their relationship is headed.

On June 22, 2009, legal proceedings were initiated in Pennsylvania to dissolve the ten-year marriage of Jon and Kate Gosselin. The episode announcing their separation became the most watched episode of the series, with 10.6 million viewers. Since the announcement of Jon and Kate's separation, the show has experienced a decrease in ratings.The final episode aired November 23, 2009.

It was announced on December 18, 2009 that their divorce was finalized.

Family:

Parents

• Katie "Kate" Irene (née Kreider) - March 28, 1975 (1975-03-28)
• Jonathan "Jon" Keith - April 1, 1977 (1977-04-01)

Twins - October 8, 2000 (2000-10-08) 

• Cara Nicole
• Madelyn "Mady" Kate

Sextuplets - May 10, 2004 (2004-05-10) 

• Alexis Faith
• Hannah Joy
• Aaden Jonathan
• Collin Thomas
• Leah Hope
• Joel Kevin

Books: The Gosselins are managed by Media Motion International in Los Angeles.

Kate Gosselin has written three books: one called Multiple Blessings (co-authored with Beth Carson and Jon), which was released November 1, 2008, Eight Little Faces in April 2009, and I Just Want You to Know on April 13, 2010.