Posted on 07/12/2006 9:25:42 PM PDT by martin_fierro
Mom has quadruplets 3 years after triplets
By FRANCISCA ORTEGA, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 23 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES - With fertility drugs, Angela Magdaleno had triplets three years ago. Last week, she had quadruplets — without fertility drugs.
Her two boys and two girls were healthy and doing well Wednesday after being born July 6 by Caesarean section in what doctors said was a rare occurrence of multiple births.
Magdaleno, 40, said she was shocked when her doctor told her she was pregnant with four babies.
"I didn't know what to do," she said in Spanish as she rested at home. "But now I'm happy because they're healthy and so am I."
Still, she worries that she might be overwhelmed with the work and sometimes struggles with mixed emotions about the future.
"I don't know if I'm sad or happy," she said. "I'm happy but, I don't know. I don't know how to explain it."
Her doctor, Kathryn Shaw, a high-risk pregnancy specialist, said Magdaleno did well during the pregnancy and developed no complications. The babies were born at 32 weeks — well beyond the 29-week average for quadruplets.
The two girls were larger than the boys. They weighed 4 pounds at birth and were 17 and 17.5 inches long. The boys weighed about 3.5 pounds and were 16 inches long.
As of Wednesday, their parents were still deciding what to name them.
Shaw said the odds of conceiving quadruplets without fertility drugs are about one in 800,000. She's seen only one other case of quadruplets being conceived without drugs — 18 years ago.
Even more rare, the boys appear to be identical twins, according to their doctor, Soha Idriss, who expects the babies will join their mother at home in about eight weeks.
Three years ago, Magdaleno gave birth to her triplets after undergoing in vitro fertilization. She said her husband wanted many children.
After their birth, she thought she was done having babies. Then she got pregnant with the quadruplets.
"She wanted to run," said her husband Afredo Anzaldo, 45, who lays carpet for a living.
When the quadruplets come home, Magdaleno will have help from two older daughters, Kelly Moreno, 17, and Stephanie Anzaldo, 15.
All 11 family members will be living in a one-bedroom apartment in East Los Angeles. Magdaleno said the living room is large and the babies are small, but she isn't sure what the family will do when they get bigger.
When the older girls are at school and her husband is at work, a friend has offered to help with the newborns and the triplets. All seven are in cloth diapers that have to be changed and laundered.
"It's a lot of work," their mother said.
In the hospital, the babies sleep wrapped in blankets and attached to monitors and wires in separate incubators. They have full heads of straight dark hair and plump pink mouths.
When Anzaldo checked in on one of his girls Tuesday, she had thrown off her blanket and slept on her back.
Anzaldo took the couple's triplets to White Memorial Medical Center to meet their new brothers and sisters and to let Magdaleno get some rest at home.
The triplets, Afredo, Catarin and Halily, weren't sure at first if they wanted the extra siblings, Anzaldo said.
"They wanted one baby and no more," he said.
Since then, they have accepted their new brothers and sisters, Magdaleno said.
Director, Maternal-Fetal Medicine doctor Kathryn Shaw, holds the quadruplets, two boys and two girls, born to Angela Magdaleno, at the White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles, Wednesday, July 12, 2006. Doctor Shaw led the team that delivered the quadruplets on July 6. (AP Photo/Stefano Paltera)
I don't suppose anything's jumping out atcha, huh.
All 11 family members will be living in a one-bedroom apartment in East Los Angeles. Magdaleno said the living room is large and the babies are small, but she isn't sure what the family will do when they get bigger.
I wonder how much these drugs change your body after you're done with them.
"She wanted to run," said her husband Afredo Anzaldo, 45, who lays carpet for a living.
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He should have tried to lay carpet more and not taken her for so many runs. ;-)..
Copulating and Populating......soon to be a majority.
Simply doing what Americans won't do...
Semper Fi
"I wonder how much these drugs change your body after you're done with them."
They stay in your system for awhile.
Great I love it when poor people have "litters"
What do you want to do about it? The Margaret Sanger solution, perhaps???
Enough anchors to keep the ship in harbor for a lifetime...
~GCR~
Their?
NOWHERE does the article state that the family is being completely sustained by the government. You're jumping to conclusions.
And you're insulting, I am completely anit-abortion except for when the mother's life is in danger.
Then you're not completely anti-abortion, are you?
Maybe a reading comprehension course would help.
Now you're the one being insulting.
Precisely junior,the article says that only one person works in a family of nine, unless dad is very wealthy they cannot afford medical, food, clothes, transportation, and life in general for nine people. They live in a one bedroom apartment, and have lived there even after having the first three children. In many places that is illegal. No I do not believe that a mother, with other children, should sacrifice her life for the life of an unborn child. I am Jewish and I believe that the needless sacrifice of a life is a sin. When you grow up you'll learn that when you insult someone they often insult you back. Better learn to take it if you're going to dish it out. Funny how you say "NOWHERE does the article state that the family is being completely sustained by the government." That "completely" in your reply speaks volumes.
That's a cruel choice of words.
Perhaps, but accurate.
Perhaps the reason these people live in a one bedroom apartment is because, like us, they don't take government assistance. If they were, I imagine they'd have a larger, subsidized place. According to the article the father is present, and has a job. It's more than we can say for a lot of people.
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