now this is a ready made family!!!

micki

Wed, Jul 12 2006, 10:32 pm

WOW! this is amazing!

Quote:

Mom has quadruplets 3 years after triplets

By FRANCISCA ORTEGA, Associated Press Writer 16 minutes ago

LOS ANGELES - With fertility drugs, Angela Magdaleno had triplets three years ago. Last week, she had quadruplets — without fertility drugs.
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Her two boys and two girls were healthy and doing well Wednesday after being born July 6 by Caesarean section in what doctors said was a rare occurrence of multiple births.

Magdaleno, 40, said she was shocked when her doctor told her she was pregnant with four babies.

"I didn't know what to do," she said in Spanish as she rested at home. "But now I'm happy because they're healthy and so am I."

Still, she worries that she might be overwhelmed with the work and sometimes struggles with mixed emotions about the future.

"I don't know if I'm sad or happy," she said. "I'm happy but, I don't know. I don't know how to explain it."

Her doctor, Kathryn Shaw, a high-risk pregnancy specialist, said Magdaleno did well during the pregnancy and developed no complications. The babies were born at 32 weeks — well beyond the 29-week average for quadruplets.

The two girls were larger than the boys. They weighed 4 pounds at birth and were 17 and 17.5 inches long. The boys weighed about 3.5 pounds and were 16 inches long.

As of Wednesday, their parents were still deciding what to name them.

Shaw said the odds of conceiving quadruplets without fertility drugs are about one in 800,000. She's seen only one other case of quadruplets being conceived without drugs — 18 years ago.

Even more rare, the boys appear to be identical twins, according to their doctor, Soha Idriss, who expects the babies will join their mother at home in about eight weeks.

Three years ago, Magdaleno gave birth to her triplets after undergoing in vitro fertilization. She said her husband wanted many children.

After their birth, she thought she was done having babies. Then she got pregnant with the quadruplets.

"She wanted to run," said her husband Afredo Anzaldo, 45, who lays carpet for a living.

When the quadruplets come home, Magdaleno will have help from two older daughters, Kelly Moreno, 17, and Stephanie Anzaldo, 15.

All 11 family members will be living in a one-bedroom apartment in East Los Angeles. Magdaleno said the living room is large and the babies are small, but she isn't sure what the family will do when they get bigger.

When the older girls are at school and her husband is at work, a friend has offered to help with the newborns and the triplets. All seven are in cloth diapers that have to be changed and laundered.

"It's a lot of work," their mother said.

In the hospital, the babies sleep wrapped in blankets and attached to monitors and wires in separate incubators. They have full heads of straight dark hair and plump pink mouths.

When Anzaldo checked in on one of his girls Tuesday, she had thrown off her blanket and slept on her back.

Anzaldo took the couple's triplets to White Memorial Medical Center to meet their new brothers and sisters and to let Magdaleno get some rest at home.

The triplets, Afredo, Catarin and Halily, weren't sure at first if they wanted the extra siblings, Anzaldo said.

"They wanted one baby and no more," he said.

Since then, they have accepted their new brothers and sisters, Magdaleno said.

didan

Wed, Jul 12 2006, 11:18 pm

B"H

Ka"h! It's certainly a blessing, though not the type of blessing I'd be asking for:)

queen

Wed, Jul 12 2006, 11:25 pm

oh my. can you imagine diapering and feeding SEVEN babies simultaneously 24/7?????

mumsy23

Wed, Jul 12 2006, 11:27 pm

can you imagine all those people in a one-bedroom apt?!?!

Crayon210

Thu, Jul 13 2006, 1:35 am

Do you think she'd get a heter for birth control? ;-)

mali

Thu, Jul 13 2006, 2:39 am

Crayon210 wrote:

Do you think she'd get a heter for birth control? ;-)

I doubt she'd have the guts to ask for one, if she'd read all the posts here.

frayda

Thu, Jul 13 2006, 4:54 am

Wow!

micki

Thu, Jul 13 2006, 9:21 am

now that the world knows they are all in one room, do you think they will get help $$ wise to have them move into a bigger house?
how amazing is that to have identical twin boys in that bunch! those eggs must have been going crazy in there at fertilization!

Tefila

Thu, Jul 13 2006, 9:23 am

She is going to need alot more help then what has has been offered. Hopefully her community will come forward Exclamation

southernbubby

Thu, Jul 13 2006, 9:34 am

What about Habitat for Humanity? They build houses for such people. When someone has a premie, they are often assigned to a social worker. If the social worker feels that the child is going home to inadequate care, she can either cause problems or try to help the family.
I once read, (years ago) in the Jewish Press about large frum families in such small apartments. I imagine that in EY, families crowd in to tiny apartments. It can have a negative affect in that the children try to leave home as soon as possible. It probably depends on how the family handles it.

happy2beme

Thu, Jul 13 2006, 9:44 am

Quote:

With fertility drugs, Angela Magdaleno had triplets three years ago. Last week, she had quadruplets — without fertility drugs

Quote:

Shaw said the odds of conceiving quadruplets without fertility drugs are about one in 800,000. She's seen only one other case of quadruplets being conceived without drugs — 18 years ago.

I don't know why they're so surprised that she had multiples.

If s/o takes fertility drugs once doesn't she have a higher probability of having multiples later on?

goldrose

Thu, Jul 13 2006, 10:32 am

the article says her husband wanted a lot of kids....now, that's one way of doing it! get it all done with in 2 pregnancies!

DefyGravity

Thu, Jul 13 2006, 10:38 am

She also has two older kids.

hardwrknmom

Thu, Jul 13 2006, 10:46 am

goldrose wrote:

the article says her husband wanted a lot of kids....now, that's one way of doing it! get it all done with in 2 pregnancies!

Mishie

Thu, Jul 13 2006, 10:47 am

On Martha there was a show where she hosted a Family with 4 yr. old twin girls, and 2 yr. old sextuplets!!!
They were Soooo cute!!!
But, I don't know if I could handle that!!!

And, lets not forget: Bobbi McCaughey's Septuplets!!! (plus an older daughter). Remember that? I think it was in 1997....

micki

Thu, Jul 13 2006, 1:05 pm

here we are plodding along doing it the old fashioned way, having one at a time!
when moshiach comes it will belike this!

chocolate moose

Thu, Jul 13 2006, 2:09 pm

There are many big families - with or w/out multiples - that don't get enough help.

Remember the family with the first "6-pack"?

I remember hearing or reading that Rosie from a talk show built them an addition onto their house, but otherwise they only had one bathroom and their mini van was too expensive gas-wise to even get the kids to school and back.

Heck, I never had any outside help!

DefyGravity

Thu, Jul 13 2006, 2:18 pm

I would assume that it's far more difficult dealing with 7 children under the age of 4 than it is with 7 children of varying ages. With most large families, there's a staggering of ages, you don't have several kids that are fully dependent on the parents for almost all of their basic functions.

There are posts from women on this board that are under a lot of stress b/c they have one newborn (which is perfectly normal). Can you imagine having 4 at once - PLUS having 3 three years olds that are also fully depended on the parents for everything?

I think that merits some help!

Crayon210

Fri, Jul 14 2006, 12:59 am

mali wrote:

Crayon210 wrote:

Do you think she'd get a heter for birth control? ;-)

I doubt she'd have the guts to ask for one, if she'd read all the posts here.

Even the hard-liners among us might soften up a bit. ;-)