A few weeks ago, we reported thst Adeboye and Ajibola Taiwo, a US-based Nigerian couple delivered six babies after 17 years of waiting. They had thought they would have just four babies at the first check, only to be told later that they would have sextuplets. God be praised.
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According to Virginia Commonwealth University:
“On May 11 at 8:26 a.m. a 40-person team at VCU Medical
Center successfully
delivered sextuplets. Ajibola Taiwo, a native of Western Nigeria, was
30 weeks and two days pregnant when she gave birth to three boys and
three girls by cesarean section.
The babies ranged in weight from 1 pound, 10 ounces to 2 pounds, 15
ounces. All six are doing well and continue to thrive in the Children’s
Hospital of Richmond at VCU neonatal intensive care unit.
The Taiwos tried to conceive for 17 years and were overcome with joy
when they saw four heartbeats at their first ultrasound in November. It
was not until January when they arrived at VCU Medical Center that they
learned they were expecting sextuplets.
“I was excited,” said Adeboye Taiwo, the father. “For the very first time we were expecting.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2015
there were nearly 4 million live births in the United States, only 24 of
which were quintuplets or other higher order births.
Delivering sextuplets requires a coordinated team effort including
many hours of planning and simulation. The Taiwos’ medical team included
experts from maternal-fetal medicine, labor and delivery, nursing,
anesthesia, respiratory, neonatal medicine, social work, nutrition,
cardiology and chaplain services.
“The team quickly assembled to begin prenatal management and delivery
planning including pre-delivery drills and resuscitation exercises,”
said Susan Lanni, M.D., medical director of labor and delivery and
maternal-fetal specialist at VCU Medical Center. “A typical labor and
delivery shift includes one, perhaps two premature births, usually with
time in between. We had to coordinate with our colleagues in the NICU
for six premature babies to be delivered simultaneously.
Developing a relationship with the mother and father was a critical
component to the successful high-risk delivery.
“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 every day 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.”
Adeboye Taiwo said everyone performed beyond his expectations from the time they arrived at VCU Medical Center.
“The medical team is excellent in medicine and hospitality,” he said.
“We are far from home but the medical team is our family. That is what
got us this far.”
Ajibola Taiwo was discharged from the hospital May 18. She and her
husband actively participate in the sextuplets’ care in the NICU.
“This is an amazing medical accomplishment that would not be possible
without the outstanding coordination of our obstetrics and neonatal
teams,” said Russell Moores, M.D., medical director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unitat
Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU. “While our level 4 NICU cares
for the region’s most critically ill and premature babies every day,
it’s humbling to help the Taiwos’ new family survive and thrive. Given
their prematurity, they are doing exceptionally well, but should they
require subspecialty care, we have all that they could need at CHoR.”
“I hope for the smallest of my six children to grow up and say ‘I was
so small, and look at me now,’” said Ajibola Taiwo. “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
