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HOUSTON (CBSDFW.COM) – Childbirth, regardless of the method, is something that requires incredible feats of strength — so I guess that makes one Texas woman a superhero! New mom Thelma Chiaka recently gave birth to sextuplets — 4 boys and 2 girls. The three sets of twins were born March 15 between 4:50 and 4:59 a.m. — yes, that’s only nine minutes for six babies — at The Woman’s Hospital of Texas in Houston. The little ones are extra small (given the fight for space) and range in weight from one pound, 12 ounces to two pounds, 14 ounces. The...

HOLLAND, Mich. — The 39-year-old father of Michigan's first surviving set of sextuplets suffered a heart attack and died after setting up a trampoline for his children, a relative said. Ben Van Houten died Wednesday night, said Sue Herweyer of Dykstra Life Story Funeral Homes in Holland.

A Catholic couple who had sextuplets last month have revealed how they were told by doctors to abort some of the babies. Nuala Conway, who gave birth to the first sextuplets in the UK for more than 25 years, was warned about the high risks of carrying so many children. The first-time mother and her husband Austin were told at 14 weeks that they could terminate some of them to reduce the risk during the pregnancy. But the former fashion store worker insisted she was putting her faith in God and wanted to go ahead.

The mother of the UK's first sextuplets for more than a quarter of a century has told how she ignored medical advice to abort several of the foetuses. Nuala Conway, 26, from Dunamore in Co Tyrone, said she was warned about the high risks of carrying on with the multiple pregnancy, but decided to put her faith in God. She was given the option of terminating some of the unborn babies at 14 weeks and was advised that this was the best option. However, Mrs Conway, who is a Roman Catholic, said that the suggestion of a termination made her...

ST. PETERSBURG - Most of the 35-member team that helped bring the Byler sextuplets into the world during three hectic minutes held hands with Karoline and Ben Byler before the Caesarean section delivery. Then they prayed. Ben Byler said that was the most memorable moment in the Saturday night births of the couple's five sons and daughter at Bayfront Medical Center. They were the first sextuplets born in Florida and the 14th in the United States. "Thanks to the Lord above," he said Sunday morning. "It's sunk in now, and there's a lot of relief, except for this one. We've...

Two Sets in the U.S. Are Born on the Same Day - It is a rare event in the United States, indeed in the world -- the birth of sextuplets. Out of more than 4 million births in the U.S. in 2005, just 85 deliveries involved five or more babies. Making the occasion rarer recently was the birth of two sets of sextuplets just 10 hours apart.On June 12, Ryan and Brianna Morrison of Minnesota became parents of four boys and two girls, born after just 22 weeks in their mother's womb. And in Phoenix that same day, after just...

American couple to be charged in sextuplet hoax Thu Apr 13, 1:57 PM ET CHICAGO (AFP) - A Missouri couple who scammed neighbors by pretending to be the proud parents of sextuplets will face criminal charges as soon as the full scale of their hoax has been discovered, police said. "It's very bizarre. I've never seen anything like that in my career," Grain Valley, Missouri police chief Aaron Ambrose told AFP. This was not the first time the 45-year-old woman had pretended to be pregnant with multiple babies, Ambrose said. An ex-husband told police she had faked pregnancy several times...

Mexican woman gives birth to sextuplets MEXICO CITY (AFP) - A 25-year-old woman in the Mexican city of Monterrey gave birth to sextuplets, a local hospital said. The six children were delivered by Caesarean section and were well, said Maria Elena Vazquez of the Center of Gynecology and Obstetrics of Monterrey. The smaller children "are in intermediate care to gain weight and will remain there between five and seven weeks,: she said. The parents, from Guadeloupe Nuevo Leon, are worried and "somewhat incredulous," Vazquez said. The mother has not previously had children, and the father is a 27-year-old sales representative.

Woman, 48, gives birth to sextuplets BELGRADE, Serbia – Snezhana Gruich, aged 48, from Stara Pazova, who gave birth to sextuplets this morning is the first-ever woman in Serbia to do so – says dr Slobodan Radulovich of the Special Gynecological Hospital in Belgrade. Mrs. Gruich gave birth at the National Front Clinic in Belgrade. The first baby was a boy – he was then followed by four girls and another boy. The weight of the babies is between 550g and 700g. The babies came into the world after 26 weeks of pregnancy and were delivered by a Caesarian...

<p>WICHITA, Kansas (AP) -- A woman who used fertility drugs gave birth to sextuplets Saturday and doctors say the three boys and three girls appear healthy.</p> <p>Only 96 sets of sextuplets have been born worldwide since recording began in the early 1900s, said doctors at Via Christi Regional Medical Center-St. Joseph, where a 24-member medical team delivered the babies by Caesarean section Saturday afternoon.</p>