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This Mother's Day weekend is a very special one for Silvia Povolo, as she gets to watch not one, but five of her children graduate from college in the same commencement ceremony! Quintuplets Ludovico, Ashley, Michael, Victoria, and Marcus were born to Paul and Silvia Povolo on July 4, 2002. This weekend, the quints will all be graduating with different degrees after being awarded full scholarships to Montclair State University near their home in New Jersey. The parents say that, while raising five kids the same age was a challenge at times, it went by very fast.

The Povolos -- Victoria, Masha, Ashley, Michael and Marcus -- were awarded all tuition and fees for four years to attend Montclair State University. The Povolo quintuplets have decided they will all attend Montclair State University this fall. The university earlier this month offered the siblings -- Victoria, Masha, Ashley, Michael and Marcus -- full scholarships that cover tuition and fees. “We’re absolutely thrilled,” said Jeff Gant, director of undergraduate admissions at Montclair.The scholarship is worth about $250,000 collectively. Because of the good grades they earned at Passaic Valley High School, the quintuplets are also being admitted as Presidential...

It was a typical playground — if you ignored the barbed wire and bizarre signs: “PLEASE COOPERATE; SILENCE IS REQUESTED.” “NO PHOTOGRAPHS ALLOWED TO BE TAKEN OF THE CHILDREN.” The children in question were the internationally famous Dionne quintuplets, the first-ever five identical siblings to survive infancy. Four times a day the girls waddled into their private playground to shovel in a sandbox or wade through baby pools as thousands of onlookers gawked at the spectacle. Their mere existence created a mania only rivaled three decades later by the arrival of the Beatles in America. When the playground opened to...

If you’ve ever wielded a stroller carrying a baby while running, you know just how awkward and difficult it can be. You can’t swing both of your arms freely at once, your stride is sometimes cut short, and no matter how “lightweight” the stroller’s packaging promised it would be, it’s a beast to push up hills. Now imagine that you have to push not one, but five kids in one—and for 26.2 miles. That will give you an idea of what 37-year-old Chad Kempel experienced at the Surf City Marathon in Huntington Beach, California, on February 3. Kempel is a...

this is an exerpt from the article Two proud parents with nine children under the age of seven have welcomed home the first of their new quintuplets - as they swear they didn't use fertility drugs to conceive them. Evonne and Deon Derrico from Las Vegas already had a seven-year-old daughter, a three-year-old son and one-year-old twin boys when they learned they were pregnant with five more babies. Evonne gave birth to two boys and three girls at the Banner Desert Medical Center on September 6, and this weekend, they brought home three of the newborns to a very excited...

It was a Christmas miracle --- times five this morning at Staten Island University Hospital in Ocean Breeze. Jamie and Kevin Ferrante of the Grant City section of Staten Island became first-time parents at 1:30 a.m.when Jamie gave birth to quintuplets in a matter of six minutes flat, according to Jamie's father, Tony Scherillo. "They had to all be taken care of. They had teams of doctors and nurses with each baby," the 67-year-old grandfather said. "They must've had about 40 people in the operating room. It was amazing, and they were incredible. Absolutely incredible." The children -- in order...

The woman called the hospital and said she had traveled from her home in war-torn Sudan to the United States. She was seeking her mother-in-law's blessing of her pregnancy, but now that she was here, she feared there was something wrong -- and any trouble would be multiplied by five. So the staff at Anne Arundel Medical Center told her to come in right away. When physician William Sweeney gave her an ultrasound, it showed all he needed to know: quintuplets at 19 weeks of development. If mother and children were to survive, the doctor concluded, they would need all...

OXFORD, January 4, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The quintuplets of a Russian couple were born in the UK after doctors in Russia denied them care unless they aborted some of them. Dimitri and Varvara Artamkin, both Russian natives, gave birth to five girls at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford last month. Each of the babies now weighs 3 pounds 3 ounces, and they have been separated since birth so they can undergo incubation in two hospitals. Dmitri, a mathematics professor, says that the children are each a gift from God. "We believe God has given them to us as...

The fab five: Couple give birth to healthy quintuplets - despite being told to abortBy FIONA BARTON - More by this author » Last updated at 07:03am on 15th November 2007A Russian woman has given birth to quintuplets in Britain after defying medical advice in her homeland. The 29-year-old music teacher, who has strong religious beliefs, travelled to England to give all five of her daughters a chance of life. Last night she and her husband, an academic, were said to be 'delighted' with their new family. Scroll down for more... Read more...   Click here to watch the newborn...

OMAHA, Neb. – The big day was finally here. The Jansen quintuplets – the first quintuplets born in Nebraska – were going to receive the Eucharist for the first time April 30 and they were ready.For the past several months, 7-year-olds Carter, Elijah, Miranda, Nicholas and Taylor had been practicing for this very day. They had attended religious education classes at St. Robert Bellarmine Church here and learned the importance of the sacrament, talked about it during dinner and even practiced with their father, Jeff, using round tortilla chips. "The first time we did it I was kind of confused...

I just wanted to inform you that the quintuplets were born on July 3rd. They are the 41st(known) set of all male quintuplets. Lukas "Luke", Samuel, Noah, Patrick, and Peter were born 13 weeks early at 27 weeks gestation. Luke weighed in at 1lb. 14oz, Samuel at 1lb. 15oz., Noah was 2lbs. 3oz., Patrick at 1lb. 6oz., and Peter at 1lb. Patrick, Samuel, and Peter passed away shortly before birth. Naoh and Luke are home and doing very well. They are meeting their developmental milestones for their corrected age...i.e. the age they would have been for their due date. They...

Last spring, when her obstetrician suggested an ultrasound test to see if she was carrying more than one baby, Jennell Dickens prayed that she wasn't carrying twins. When an ultrasound technician examined her belly, counting two, three and four heartbeats, she steeled herself for quadruplets. That was before a radiologist entered the room and found another heartbeat. Dickens cried for two months. Yesterday, she was the picture of composure, smiling and laughing at the University of Maryland Medical Center just two days after delivering four girls and a boy 10 weeks early. They weighed a combined 11 pounds, 14 ounces....

NAPERVILLE, Ill. - A Marine who is in a hospital bed recovering from wounds he suffered in Iraq is now a father five times over. While Sgt. Joshua Horton, 28, recuperated at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, his wife, Taunacy, delivered quintuplets Monday in Naperville. Neither the hospital nor military officials knew whether Horton was aware his babies had been born. He was heavily sedated and had not been able to speak to his wife, officials said. Horton knew Taunacy was expecting quints when he was deployed to Iraq, but felt duty-bound to honor his commitment. "He wanted...