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The McCaughey septuplets were the equivalent of a viral sensation when they were born in 1997 as hysteria around the huge brood saw them thrown into the spotlight. Bobbi and Kenny McCaughey welcomed Nathan, Kelsey, Brandon, Joel, Natalie, Alexis, and Kenny Jr on November 19, 1997, in Des Moines, Iowa. The babies became the first septuplets in the world to survive infancy. They were born within six minutes of each other, nine weeks premature and only weighed between two and four pounds. Mom Bobbi was born with a malfunctioning pituitary gland that struggled to produce hormones to stimulate ovulation. She...

FULL TITLE: Woman who gave birth to the nation’s first septuplets dies at the age of 63 after living with mental illness brought on by fame and mounting medical bills A California woman who gained notoriety in the 1980s for giving birth to the nation's first septuplets has died, her eldest son Joseph Frustaci said. Patricia Frustaci made headlines in May 1985 when she welcomed seven children - four boys and three girls - at a San Diego hospital. The babies' arrival was said to be the largest multiple birth in the United States at that time. The former English...

A hospital director in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria says a woman has successfully given birth to septuplets... The babies' weights range from 3.2 pounds (1.45 kilograms) to 2.8 kilograms (6.17 pounds). (AP, so no large excerpt; see article at link, and first comment below.)