RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia hospital says its staff has successfully delivered sextuplets and the three boys and three girls are thriving.
VCU Medical Center in Richmond announced the births in a statement Wednesday, saying they were the first sextuplets delivered at the hospital. The babies were born prematurely on May 11 to parents who had tried to conceive for 17 years.
Their first ultrasound in November indicated that the couple would be having quadruplets, but it wasn’t until January that they learned they were actually expecting sextuplets.
The babies ranged from 1 pound, 10 ounces, to 2 pounds, 15 ounces.
“I hope for the smallest of my six children to grow up and say ‘I was so small, and look at me now,’” said Taiwo. “I want my kids [to] come back to VCU to study and learn to care for others with the same people who cared for me and my family.”
Sextuplets are quite rare. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, of the nearly 4 million live births in the U.S. in 2015, only 24 were quintuplets or other higher-order births.
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