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The amazing "quadruplets" born three years apart, Grantham, Lincolnshire, Britain - Feb 2010 Credit: Gary Roberts, Rex / Rex USA
Alice was conceived in 2006, via in vitro fertilization (IVF), and her parents, Helen and Shane Baxter, had the remaining embryos frozen. Last year, three of the embryos were implanted, and triplets Maisy, Niamh and Noah were born, six weeks early, in January.
The four children are being called quadruplets by the British press.
But that's not entirely accurate, says Dr. James Goldfarb, president of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology and director of the Infertility and IVF Program at the Cleveland Clinic. "For children to be quadruplets, they have to have developed simultaneously in the mother's womb."
It isn't unusual for a woman to get pregnant from the same batch of embryos, he says, though the number of triplet IVF pregnancies in this country has declined, as doctors now tend to implant fewer embryos.
Whether you call these children quadruplets or triplets plus one, with three infants and a toddler, the Baxters have their hands full!
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4-20-2010 @ 8:32PM
akaila said...wow thats an extremely interesting story!
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4-23-2010 @ 3:54PM
skye said...This is really a stupid article. Like it says itself, it's not unusual to have children from the same batch of embryos. I'm sure it happens all the time. What a waste of space.
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4-23-2010 @ 4:37PM
Babygirl said...Ironically, the same could be said about you.
4-23-2010 @ 6:17PM
Katie said...Right On Skye! Not only a waste of space, but a waste of breath!
4-23-2010 @ 5:11PM
Laura said...Not to long ago there was a woman that gave birth to twins 5 weeks apart. Now that was bizarre!
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4-23-2010 @ 7:57PM
Darlene Hartman said...And what a wonderful thing to hand your hands full of--three little angels and a bigger little angel! My husband and I raised twenty children, and we're none the worse for it--quite the contrary! I've heard so many people our ages (77 and 75) mourn that they wished they had had more children; I've never heard even one wish they had had fewer. God bless this family, even more than He has done.
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4-23-2010 @ 8:05PM
D said...Maisy may look cute and asleep, for now. But that one is really a rebal for sure. And he's really not a triplet, but in fact the clone of Keith Flint. Big sister is going to get Smacked!
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4-23-2010 @ 11:52PM
KAREN said...beautiful children....regardless of what the article is stating!!
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5-28-2010 @ 11:40PM
von said...Call them as you wish. Woman have all the eggs they will ever have from birth, does that mean with an exception of those woman who have just one child we all have multiple births. What the media does for a story!
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