See ‘Octomom’ Nadya Suleman’s Octuplets Through the Years

After having octuplets in 2009, Nadya Suleman, who now goes by the name Natalie, mostly retreated from the spotlight to raise her 14 children while occasionally sharing milestone updates.

In this throwback Instagram photo, the year-old octuplets (Nariyah, Isaiah, Maliyah, Jeremiah, Noah, Josiah, Jonah and Makai) splashed in an inflatable-pool alongside their two oldest siblings, Eli and Amerah.Suleman wished her kids a happy 13th birthday with a throwback photo of the tiny toddler octuplets sitting side-by-side.

“I have never seen children who love and want to serve others, (particularly those less fortunate), so boldly and confidently like each and every one of you do,” their mom said.

To celebrate their 10th birthday in 2019, Suleman posted a throwback of the octuplets at age 4 looking ready for a swim. “Not exactly the first day (started Wednesday lol)…but close enough!” Suleman wrote alongside an Instagram of her kids in their school uniforms.

Suleman shared this cute pic of the kids decked out in neon for a charity race with PEOPLE in 2016 when giving an update on her family life. The kids lined up in front of a playground to take a holiday-themed photo “after singing in their school’s Christmas performance,” according to Suleman.

The kids gathered around a table to give handwritten cards and drawings to their mother.On their first day of 3rd grade, the youngest eight of Suleman’s 14 kids posed for a picture. “#TheyWereAllSoExcited” she wrote on Instagram. In another Turkey Trot photo, Suleman joked that her kids took up the “entire sack race.”

Suleman has shared on several occasions that she and her children eat vegan (except for Joshua, whom she’s claimed is “the ONLY non vegan in the family”).According to the hashtags in Suleman’s caption on this Instagram of the octuplets in costume for a play, Isaiah played The Doctor, Maliyah and Jonah played The Farmers, Josiah was The Cowboy, Jonah was The Gold Miner, Jeremiah was

The Captain, Makai and Nariyah acted as The Native Americans and Noah played The Business Man Surfer and Square Dancer. Suleman shared her back-to-school stress in the caption of a photo featuring her kids in their school outfits. While she joked that she’s “an official bus driver” with six school drop-offs throughout the morning, she said she “wouldn’t have it any other way.”

The family smiled in matching t-shirts for their annual thanksgiving “Turkey Trot” tradition. Even Eli, Suleman’s eldest “who despises pictures” joined for a group photo to celebrate Mother’s Day. The mother of 14 shared a few snapshots from her youngest eight children’s Go-Kart birthday party in January 2023, including this one of them each holding a letter in the word “birthday,” and a fun one of them all jumping in the air.