Three are going home.
Posted on 08/23/2025 9:30:57 AM PDT by DFG
Growing up as a quadruplet, Theresa Troia is no stranger to big families, but as a first-time mom at 36 years old, Troia has had quite the adjustment going from zero to FIVE babies.
Troia told ABC7,
To me, the normal is multiples, you know, because I don't obviously know any different, but it was nice growing up and always having a sibling there.
After miscarrying her first pregnancy, Troia was shocked to conceive quintuplets naturally, and struggled to find a doctor who would take her as a patient. Her first OBGYN dropped her after the mom of five refused to "reduce" the number of babies.
I got a lot of comments that I should think about reducing. The risks of actually having them all... even my provider didn't agree with keeping five. They dropped me.
Thankfully, Troia was able to find a doctor who was willing to take on all six patients (mom and babies) in Dr. Aaron Poole at Las Palmas Del Sol Healthcare in El Paso, Texas.
Dr. Poole told ABC7,
For me, it's always really important to be an advocate for the patient. With teamwork, medication, and close observation, I believed we could get to the finish line and have five healthy babies.
I always feel like too that God has a place in what happens. So I think in just doing my best and seeing what can happen with that.
And that, my friends, is the right attitude for a doctor to have.
The Troia babies were the first quintuplets to be delivered by Dr. Poole and the first to be born at the hospital.
Quintuplets Kyla Rose, Joseph Anthony, Jaxon Thomas, Viviana Lily, and Isabella Gianna were delivered on June 3rd, at only 28 weeks. All five babies are doing well, three of them have already been able to go home, and the other two are expected to be discharged from the NICU soon.
Troia told PEOPLE,
When I look at my five little miracles… every tear, every fear, every moment — it was all worth it. I still don't know how I got so lucky.
Wow!
Beautiful post!!!!!!! An amazing doctor also who didn’t turn her away....
Clapping madly and so glad all went well for all of them. There’s a lot of aunts and uncles to help out.
Dr. Poole told ABC7
Good news everybody! Dr. Poole's School of Linguistics has really taken off!
Three are going home.
True experts realize the limits of their knowledge.
That’s why people do scientific research.
Great on her and her husband. Instant family.
Sweet babies! I hope they have a Daddy in their lives.
no mention of a father, a family surname from him... or the dad/father who is ominously absent from all reporting.
instant divorce, departure and massive child support burden.
glad she did not abort.
but unless he is dead, he should have been referred to or named somewhere. the “i don’t need no man” crowd needs to be informed. Prayers to God for her and her children... and the missing father. dude, you did it... so step up and take your place at the family ‘table’.
Waiting until age 36 is risky.
One of the daughters has the middle name Gianna. Does she know the story of St. Gianna Beretta Molla?
"Reduce" means "kill" ... in case anyone was unclear on the concept.
My brain kept trying to make Mom a Quadruped. I swear I’m awake...
Perhaps "deliberately absent", to promote the idea that fathers are irrelevant?
(Excerpt of additional info)
A single mother who was born a quadruplet delivered a set of premature quintuplet “rainbow babies” in Texas after the loss of her first child.
Troia celebrated her new pentad as her “rainbow babies” — a term frequently used to refer to the first child born after a miscarriage, stillborn, or infant death.
Theresa Troia, a 36-year-old nurse consultant, delivered five babies via cesarean section on June 3 at just 28 weeks of gestation.
Troia gave birth to three daughters, including Isabella and Viviana, and two boys.
Troia didn’t undergo any fertility treatments to conceive the quints and was originally told she would be having quadruplets until one of the fetuses “[chose] to make a grand entrance by splitting into TWO,” she wrote on Facebook.
Isabella and Viviana are identical monochorionic-diamniotic, or Mo-Di, twins, meaning they shared a placenta in utero but grew in amniotic sacs.
Could this be invitro where normally they reduce the number implanted. The reduction is why some churches preach against it. Having one at this age has elevated risk much more with five.
Wonder if this is a single mom. If not, was the husband (or partner) on board with keeping all five? What is liability of any third party: husband, partner, physician, and government?
“Troia, who says their biological dad is not involved, tells PEOPLE her five babies are still in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit, where they’re receiving care from the “amazing” team there.”
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