The woman, who lived in Suzzara, Italy, was artificially inseminated in India, La Gazzetta di Mantova said.

“We have been waiting for this moment for 15 years,” the babies’ 38-year-old father Pabla Maghar Singh said. “We are really very happy.”

The parents named the boys Manav, Manmeet, Roshan and Radveer.

The boys were born two months premature and weighed between one pound, 10 ounces and two pounds, two ounces. They are still inside incubators, but are doing well, the newspaper said.

Do people not have babies in their 20’s and 30’s anymore? 50 is the new 30 and 60 is the new 40!!

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Officials at Sinai Hospital say 40-year-old Nelly Itula delivered the babies on Friday. The quads include identical twin girls and fraternal twin boys.

The babies were delivered by Caesarian section. The girls, Freda and Pauletta weighed slightly more than two pounds, and the boys, Frederick and Paul weighed slightly more than three pounds.

Nelly, the new mom, came to Owings Mills in December to visit her sister when she found out she was pregnant.

She was advised to stay in the United States because of health concerns. Her husband, Frederick Itula, arrived in Baltimore from Nigeria late Saturday. The babies were conceived while Nelly was taking fertility drugs.

One newborn is still on a respirator.Doctors say they should be able to leave the hospital in about a month.

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After spending just a few days in the US hospital 2 of the quads were healthy enough to be transferred leaving Karen, their mom, and the remaining 2 girls a country away.

At that time Karen and J.P Jepp were reluctant to speak to the media about the four miracles they had just welcomed into their lives.

Now that the babies have been home for a few months, the couple opened up to Michelle Lang of the Canwest News Service about how their lives have changed since the arrival of Autumn, Brooke, Calissa and Dahlia.

On this day each baby wears a different colored outfit.

The outfits help differentiate each member of this rare set of quadruplets, identical in every way from their blue eyes and chubby cheeks to their broad, toothless grins.

“Sometimes I get them mixed up, just for a second,” says Karen, 36, “It freaks me out.”

The quadruplets have grown remarkably from their birth weights, which ranged between two pounds six ounces to two pounds 15 ounces. The girls now weigh between 14 and 17 pounds each, with Autumn the largest baby and Dahlia the smallest.

While the babies have done well since their release from the hospital, Calissa needed to be re-admitted in December after she developed a severe bronchial condition.

Her lungs were already compromised from whooping cough, which she contracted in the fall, and doctors didn’t know if she would make it. On Christmas Eve — after a stint in the intensive care unit — her condition took a turn for the better.

The family was lucky to have Calissa back home in January and the family of seven has been settling into a routine ever since.

Like many multiples parents, Karen and J.P rely on volunteers to help out with the babies overnight so that they can get sleep and spend some one on one time with their 3 year old son Simon.

The Jepps say they couldn’t have survived the past few months without their friends, family and donations from local businesses who have given them everything from formula to the 24 diapers they go through every day. Volunteers such as Michelle Wilks from Children’s Cottage Society help Karen out on Thursdays so she can spend at least one day with Simon.

Each baby is already starting to show their individual personality.

Karen says Autumn, the oldest by a matter of minutes, is a leader, while Brooke is a quiet observer. She describes Calissa as feisty and Dahlia as a “spark plug.”

“I don’t want them to be ‘the quads,’” says Karen.

“I want them to be individuals. I want them to be special. They are very rare.”

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In that time we have seen a mom have triplets twice, a mom have two sets of identical twins at the same time, 2 moms welcome sextuplets on the same day, identical triplets, identical quadruplets and the amazing birth of the Wilkinson quints.

Today is a new milestone because a mom in Maryland welcomed a rare set of quads that are comprised of identical triplets plus an extra.

The babies, know as “3 +1″ arrived by caesarean section on Jan. 29, their mother’s 32nd birthday. Joshua Drew was born first, then Gavin Michael, Cody Benjamin and finally Logan Christopher, the non-identical one, hospital spokesman Michael Schwartzberg said.

The boys were born 11 weeks premature in January at Greater Baltimore Medical Center in Towson.

There are fewer than 100 documented cases of “identical triplets plus one” in the United States, hospital officials said.

The babies were treated at the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit, and all four have been home in Belcamp for about 2½ weeks, Schwartzberg said.

The parents plan to introduce themselves and their boys at a news conference Friday.

I hate that the non identical quad is constantly referred as the odd man out. Poor guy is going to get a complex…

The babies mom was implanted with two embryos, and both were fertilized. One of them split, then split again, creating the identical triplets.

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Abigail Lidia, Eli Rocco, Cara Ella and Dominic James arrived in January, in that order, 11 weeks early, weighing just under 2 pounds, 6 ounces.

Cara Ella will be first to come home today, having met the requirements to leave the hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). At 4 pounds, 9 ounces, she is gaining weight comfortably, bottle-feeds consistently, and maintains her body temperature on her own.

The others are still sleeping in their own individual “Isolette” incubator — a small, enclosed chamber that regulates body temperature until their bodies can do it. Each baby is also wired up to medical sensors for nurses’ quick attention when required.

The couple just moved to a two-bedroom condo in Glen Gardner, but they figure they have a few years before worrying about moving to bigger quarters. For now, they’re enjoying the surprise, and hoping all four babies will get to come home and be together by the time of their original due date of April 12.

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The babies, which were conceived through IVF, are a rare medical phenomenon because only two embryos were injected and both split to develop into identical twins. Chances of that happening are about one in 70 million.

“I’ve never heard of it before,” said Vincer, who’s seen three sets of quadruplets delivered at the hospital. “To have two implanted embryos both succeed and then both split that would have to be very, very uncommon.”

The boys are said to be struggling with respiratory problems and other issues that come with being born so prematurely. Sadly, at least one is suffering from a significant premature breathing condition.

“He has very major respiratory failure at the moment,” Vincer, a neonatologist, told reporters as the babies’ parents looked on. “He’s still critically ill and we have our concerns about survival.”

The quads arrived at 29 weeks gestation, all weighing around three pounds each. At birth, 3 need to be vented. The two boys remain hooked up to special high-frequency ventilators because of their respiratory problems.

The couple say that they are eager to get their babies home to Greenwood, N.S., but understand that it will likely be months before any of them are able to leave.Christa MacKinnon, 29, said she had held only one of the babies for the first time Wednesday night, adding that there are so many tubes and lines of tape feeding into them that they’re difficult to see.

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So, I guess it doesn’t surprise me to read that a New Orleans hospital delivered a set of quads and a set of triplets in a 24 hour period.

A New Orleans couple welcomed quadruplets: four girls — one set of identical twins and one set of fraternal twins, and less than 24 hours earlier, doctors delivered a set of triplets: three boys.

“It’s been a busy 24 hours in the NICU,” exclaims Dr. Harley Ginsberg. “What makes this even more exciting is that the Quads birth was the first set of quadruplets delivered at Ochsner Medical Center in nearly five years.” Ginsberg goes on to say that “mothers and babies are doing well thanks to the multi-disciplinary team of specialists and sub-specialists at Ochsner.”

The quads were welcomed beginning at 6:24 p.m. Tuesday by parents Matt and Alisha Murphy.

The babies weighed between 3 pounds 6 oz. and 4 pounds 3 ounces and are named Molly, Elizabeth, Margaret and Carolyn.

The triplets were welcomed beginning at 6:45 a.m. Tuesday by parents George and Pamela Kocke.

The boys weighed between 4 pounds 2.5 ounces and 4 pounds 10 oz. and are named Linus, Oliver and Miles. They are the first babies for the Kocke family.

Just 2 weeks ago, we reported that a Wisconsin Doctor delivered 4 sets of twins in 24 hours.

I guess two is the new one… or four is the new two.

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Daniel Morley, 32, had booked in for a vasectomy as he and Dawn Tilt, 31, already had three children, reports the Daily Mirror.

They discovered she was pregnant four days before the op but had no idea they would be having quads until her 12 week scan.

Daniel was speechless and Dawn burst into tears!

The childhood sweethearts were not on any fertility drugs, meaning they have defied 729,000-1 odds to have quads.

The babies, all healthy, are due to be delivered by caesarean section in March, nine weeks before their due date.

 

This couple doesn’t know it yet – but these babies really are a blessing. We wish them good luck!

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You always hear that a family just wanted 1 more child when they do fertility and end up coming away with 4, 5 or 6.

This family already has 7 kids (2 natural and 5 adopted) so one would wonder why they would need more?

The new babies — two boys and two girls — arrived over the weekend with the help of artificial insemination and fertility drugs. New mom Dana and her partner, Allison, already have two biological children and five adopted special needs children.

They were hoping for just one more, but got much more.

“I had to use my fingers. I said, ‘Okay, this is how many I have right now, and I’m adding four more,” said Dana.

“We have lots of love and lots of room, so the more the merrier,” said Allison.

The couple gets financial help from the state.

The four new babies will mean a lot of work, but both are looking forward to their really big family.

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I guess the multiple boom is not just happening to humans, but animals too. A month back a tiger had triplets and yesterday it was reported that a cow in Ontario had quadruplets.

After giving birth to twin calves two years ago, an eastern Ontario cow has really raised some eyebrows in the agricultural community by delivering four healthy calves, two bulls and two heifers.

“She had twins two years ago, but she missed last year,” said Lyn Haskins, who owns the farm with his wife Cathy. “She caught this year, big time.”

Haskins said Sunday’s birth of quads has gotten around and people are eager to have a look at the offspring of Mother and a bull named Wulf’s Lowell.

“I’ve had a lot of people come and take a peek at them,” he said. “Some farmers have been in the business 40 years and said they never heard of it.”

Indeed, Mother has joined the ranks of a rare breed with her unexpected fourfold delivery.

A 1996 story by Associated Press about the birth of quad calves on a farm in Sonoma, Calif., ranks the likelihood of a beef cow birthing quadruplets as one in a million.

Professor Walter Johnson of the department of population medicine at the University of Guelph said he has only heard of quads being born to beef cows “four or five” times in 35 years in his field.

The calves, are named Hershey (Cathy Haskins works at the Smiths Falls chocolate factory), Scotty, Gladys and Christian.

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