The two mothers, Melissa Keevers and Rosemary Nolan, were not able to hold the quins for the first week as they were taken to intensive care and placed in separate incubators. Doctors have not yet given the couple a date when they can take the babies to their Brisbane home. Ms Keevers, 27, who was inseminated with the sperm of a donor from the US, said in an interview with Woman's Day: ''After just having five babies it's hard to only be able to visit them and touch them through a hole in the crib.
''You can't put into words what it's like to finally hold them.'' Ms Nolan, 22, who is from Ireland, told the magazine: ''We got very teary when they were born. We couldn't hold them as they were so small … We wanted to cuddle them but we knew the biggest thing was to make sure they were all right.'' Doctors have been impressed with the quins' progress so far. According to the magazine, a planned operation to fix a murmur in Eireann's heart may not be needed after all.
She and Evie have been moved to a different intensive care unit that isn't so reliant on oxygen and Charlie and Abby are putting on weight. Noah, the first-born and biggest, is out of his incubator and Ms Keevers is breastfeeding him without any problems. The couple have an older daughter, Lily, 18 months, conceived using the same sperm donor. The quins' biological father is a 27-year-old law student who the couple found through an internet fertility company in the US. He has reportedly signed away any rights to the children and will never meet them.
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22 and a mother to 6?! That blows my mind. I'd probably end up in the nut house by the time I was 24.
What I really don't get about this story is that every article is saying that the chances of conceiving quins without IVF is 60 million to one. That's one of the most inaccurate statements about fertility treatment I have ever read in my five years of trying to have a child. These babies were conceived by IUI, which is another form of fertility treatment. If managed correctly, her fertility speciliast should have been using a technique called follice tracking. This uses ultrasound scan of the patient's ovaries in the days leading up to ovulation, to monitor the number and size of developing follicles. If there are too many follicles, usually more than two or three, which there more than likely were, then the cycle is cancelled as the risk of multiple births is too high. Unless of course there were two follicles observed on the ultrasound, one split into twins and one into triplets. This is not the case here though, because in another report I read that each baby had its own gestation sac, which would indicate that all babies were non identical. So a case of questionable medical management of an IUI cycle.
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