Congratulations to the Taiwos! They are now proud parents to three boys and three girls all at once, after 17 years of trying to conceive.
The babies who ranged in weight from 1 pound, 10 ounces to 2 pounds, 15 ounces, were born on May 11 at 8:26 a.m, by a 40-person team at VCU Medical Center, and are all doing well in the neonatal intensive care unit of Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU.
According to the news published by the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), it was the first sextuplet delivery in VCU Medical Center’s history.
The 40-person team included experts from maternal-fetal medicine, labor and delivery, nursing, anesthesia, respiratory, neonatal medicine, social work, nutrition, cardiology and chaplain services.
The new mom, Ajibola Taiwo was 30 weeks and two days pregnant when she gave birth to the sextuplets by cesarean section.
After 17 years of trying, Ajibola and her husband Adeboye Taiwo were overcome with joy when the first ultrasound done in November showed four heartbeats. They were to learn later in January that they were actually expecting six babies. “I was excited,” said Adeboye. “For the very first time we were expecting.”
According to the hospital, the success of the high-risk delivery was aided by the relationship they developed with the family.
“We’re going through this extraordinary journey together with the family,” said Ronald Ramus, M.D., director of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at VCU Medical Center.
“It’s not everyday that parents bring home sextuplets. Mrs. Taiwo was eating, sleeping and breathing for seven. A lot of the support and encouragement we gave her to make it as far as she did was important, and one of the biggest contributions we made as a team.”
“The medical team is excellent in medicine and hospitality,” said Adeboye, while speaking of how his expectations were exceeded at VCU Medical Center. “We are far from home but the medical team is our family. That is what got us this far.”
“I hope for the smallest of my six children to grow up and say ‘I was so small, and look at me now,’” said the new mom. “I want my kids [to] come back to VCU to study and learn to care for others with the same people who cared for me and my family.
Source: VCU News
