The Second Woman In The U.S. To Gᴀᴠᴇ Bɪʀᴛʜ To Sᴇxᴛᴜᴘʟᴇᴛs
The mother of a set of Sᴇxᴛᴜᴘʟᴇᴛs born in Alabama over Father’s Day weekend today revealed how she had to consume 6,000 calories each day just to keep them nourished. She and her husband Mitchell also revealed they have named the six alphabetically, after the letters ᴅᴏᴄᴛᴏʀs gave them when they were still in the ᴡᴏᴍʙ: Abbie, Brooklyn, Chloe, David, Ellie and Faith.
She Gᴀᴠᴇ Bɪʀᴛʜ to the Sᴇxᴛᴜᴘʟᴇᴛs by planned Cᴀᴇsᴀʀɪᴀɴ sᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴ on Saturday morning, 28 weeks and one day into her ᴘʀᴇɢɴᴀɴᴄʏ, after a month of sᴛʀɪᴄᴛ ʙᴇᴅ ʀᴇsᴛ – including her 30th birthday. They arrived in the space of just three minutes, the eldest, Abbie, at 8.05am and the youngest, Faith, at 8.08am, and weighed between 1lb 10oz and 2lbs 5oz. All of them ᴡᴇʀᴇ ʙᴏʀɴ very healthy, and that weight spread is a good sign that there was not one baby that was lagging behind, that all of them had grown and developed well.
The babies were welcomed into the world by a team of 51 ᴍᴇᴅɪᴄᴀʟ sᴛᴀꜰꜰ, who had rehearsed the ᴅᴇʟɪᴠᴇʀʏ six times before. Each baby had their own group of ᴅᴏᴄᴛᴏʀs ᴀɴᴅ ɴᴜʀsᴇs. The 30-year-old provoked laughter from the assembled press as she described her 6,000 calorie-a-day diet. She said: “It was very hard. They had me keep a sheet of everything I ate, and they would always do the calories for it. And all of the snacks, every day they would start bring me snack foods and desserts. I mean, it was very good, but I can’t imagine doing that again.” The week before she Gᴀᴠᴇ Bɪʀᴛʜ,
