Queens woman pregnant with sextuplets

Brett Singer — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:00:00 GMT

Let's talk about sexts, bay-bee, let's talk about you and me (and me and me and me and me and me and me)…

Six kids. SIX. KIDS. AT. ONCE.

"Victor and Digna Carpio didn't want their 7-year-old son Jhancarlos to grow up alone. The Queens couple tried for years to have a second child - without success. Now their wish is about to come true - over and over and over and over and over and over again."

So, be careful what you wish for?

A few choice details:

-   At first, doctors said she was having quintuplets. They also found a mass that they thought was a tumor. Turns out the tumor was the sixth baby.
-   Their son, 7 year old Jhancarlos, said, "Mami, that's too many babies…They'll destroy the house!" Smart kid.
-   This is the second set of sextuplets to be born in New York City, and The Daily News says that the Carpios might be the first Hispanic couple to have…sexts. (That sounds weird, but if you can call quintuplets "quints", sextuplets should be "sexts", right? I really need a nap.)
-   Sextuplet pregnancies are rare, and often all six babies don't survive. "Carpio had such a rough time during the first four months of her pregnancy that her doctors tried to convince her to sacrifice four of the babies to improve the chances of survival for the other two." She refused. I think I would too, but what a decision.
-   The article makes no mention of fertility treatments, which is good.
-   A follow up article is titled, "Queens sextuplets will be challenge." Um, duh.

I'll say good luck, but they're going to need more than luck. Patience, money, family... oof.

image/source: NY Daily News

Strollerderby : Victor Carpio

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