PA Woman Gives Birth To Sextuplets
Stacey and Brendan at hospital press conference.
Move over, Kate … there are a new set of sextuplets in town.
Another Pennsylvania woman, Stacey Carey, 33, gave birth to sextuplets on Monday in Abington Memorial Hospital in Abington, Pennsylvania.
Stacey and her husband, Brendan, welcomed three girls and three boys: Emma, Samantha, Olivia, John, Patrick and Connor. They weighed from 1 pound, 1 ounce to 2 pounds, 5 ounces. Stacey is also mom to a 16-month-old daughter. The newborn infants remain in critical condition.
CNN reports that they babies were conceived with the help of fertility specialists who used a fertility treatment called ovulation induction.
Close to 60 medical staff participated in the deliveries. The staff, divided into color-coded teams, had trained and practiced for exactly what would happen that day:
“They did what they do every day, but they did it six times. So it was pretty spectacular,” said Barbara Wadsworth, the hospital’s senior vice president and chief nursing officer.
The babies are still not out of the woods health-wise. Delivered through a cesarean section at just 27 weeks, they are receiving ventilator and IV support and continue to be at very high risk for complications. They are also receiving nutrition intravenously in addition to their mother’s milk. Neonatologist Gerard Cleary said it was too early to make any predictions.
Stacey is thrilled and say the births were a “miracle”:
Our family of nine is now complete. We weren’t expecting a family this big, but we’re happy now.
Stacey Carey, 33, is a teacher in the Centennial School District and husband Brendan, 41 and works as a bartender at SugarHouse Casino. The couple lives in a four-bedroom house.
Fellow Pennsylvania residents Jon and Kate Gosselin had their six children delivered in the state back in 2004. Yet sextuplets are really quite rare. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, only 46 out of the 4.2 million births in the United states in 2008 were quintuplets or larger multiples.
As much as I love babies, I don’t think I could handle six at one time, even with help. I really admire the moms who have the patience and will do it. Congrats to Stacey and Brendan, and best wishes for the babies’ speedy recovery.
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Who cares. The 6 babies are in critical condition and she laughs and participates on media shows to tell her story. It is clear she is looking for handouts, and haven’t we heard enough about this crap? I bet a publicist approached the family to announce the delivery to the world because both will benefit from it ($$ for both). I had 3 kids in 21 months, one a set of twins, by the normal way, and did not anticipate either pregnancy-twin’s run in my family. This broad used MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY, and anyone can do that, but you put both your body and your children’s at risk! What stupid people they are (THINK GOSSELIN, OCTOMOM, AND THE DUGGAN’S) all in it for the $ they can get. The Doctors should also be ashamed of themselves-do they get promotions for their work?? Due to HMO’s and enormous liability insurance costs, many feel trapped in the system and want to gain notoriety-how pathetic. Sixty Doctors to deliver the litter?? How were other patients getting care-oh, I forgot, it was a monumental event, much more important than an individual person. Living vicariously through your children suggests to me that the parents need to bolster low self-esteem and insecurity. Maybe the husband needs to go back to school and get a degree instead of working as a bartender-his $ isn’t going to support those kids. Neither is a teachers salary. God forbid that all the kids live and have severe disabilities-we will be paying for their care. People should start making wise decisions-not stupid ones! People who contribute to these parents should be ashamed-hope all the “hoopla” dies down-it is becoming old, except to the media looking for a nice juicy story.
I agree with the above poster. We have much more sophisticated medical technology now…we should NOT be having these unhealthy, high-number births. Humans aren’t supposed to have litters. I’ve spoken with many fertility specialists, and they have continually told me that they consider high-multiple births to be a failure in their profession. These people should be in the hospital, apologizing to those babies for the pain they are suffering right now because they were too selfish to let nature take it’s course, or to try a less aggressive treatment, or even to, God forbid, adopt a needy child or two–rather than be out talking about this in the media. I struggled with infertility for 7 years, but I as expected, biology won out and we conceived (and are a few months from delivering) without medical intervention…just plain old taking healthy steps and having patience. Most women who want to do manage to conceive eventually. Even if not, there are less aggressive treatments that work for most people. If a couple is one of the few they don’t work for, then maybe it’s best to let nature be and find alternative ways to become a parent. If feel so sorry for those babies and what they are suffering through now. I hope they all survive. I hope these people don’t get a reality show. This makes my heart hurt.