List of multiple births

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This is a list of multiple births, consisting of notable multiple births that were greater than twins, such as triplets, quadruplets, quintuplets, sextuplets, septuplets, and higher orders. The list also includes fictional mutiples.

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[edit] Real-life multiple births

[edit] Triplets

[edit] Quadruplets

  • The Keys quadruplets (born June 4, 1915 in Hollis, Oklahoma) were the first same-sex quadruplets known to survive to adulthood. They attended Baylor University on scholarship and graduated in 1937. The eldest, Roberta Keys Torn, celebrated her 90th birthday in 2005.[5]
  • The identical Hansen Quadruplets (born October 24, 1974 in San Antonio, Texas) on were Alison, Brooke, Claire, and Darcy Hansen. They appeared on the The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. They attended Baylor University on academic scholarships and graduated in 1997.
  • The VanderWoude Quadruplets (born on September 21, 1987 in Grand Rapids, Michigan) were the first set of quadruplets to live past infancy in Michigan.
  • The Brino quadruplets (born September 21, 1998 in Woodland Hills, California) are the children of to Tony and Shawna Brino, and have all appeared in the popular television series 7th Heaven when they were infants as the twin boys born in season 3. When they all started to look different, the only girl (Myrinda) stopped appearing in the show, and Zachary and Lorenzo starred in the first episode they were credited in. From then on, only Nikolas and Lorenzo Brino starred in the show, and did through the show's current season, season 11.

[edit] Quintuplets

[edit] Sextuplets

[edit] Septuplets

Forty-eight sets of septuplets have been recorded in the world. Of those 48 sets, only one set is said to have had any identical babies in it (four identical to the Baylis family of England in 1829. None survived.)

  • The first recorded instance of septuplets being born was recorded in the 1400s, to a woman named Edith de Bonham of England. All of the children were baptized before their deaths, and the mother had had twins seven years previously.
  • The Frustaci septuplets (born May 21, 1985) were the first septuplets to be born in the United States. Born at 28 weeks, only three babies survived.
  • The McCaughey septuplets (born November 19, 1997 in Des Moines, Iowa) were the world's first surviving set of septuplets. The four boys and three girls were born at 31 weeks, weighing between 2 lb 5ozs and 3 lb 4ozs.
  • The Humair septuplets (born January 14, 1998 in Abha, Saudi Arabia) were the world's second surviving set of septuplets, born at 32 weeks to a 40-year-old mother, Hasna Mohammed Humair and her husband bin Mohammed Sammam. They had been told to expect four babies.
  • The Qahtani septuplets (born July 12, 2001 in Washington, DC) were the third set of septuplets to live past infancy.
  • An unidentified all-male set was born in India in 2002. The last reports seen were that all were doing well and there was no news on whether all seven survived.

[edit] Octuplets

[edit] Nonuplets

There have been six (possibly seven) recorded cases of human nonuplet births and conceptions. None of the sets of nonuplets were conceived spontaneously; all were achieved through fertility treatments.

  • Unidentified sets were born in Pennsylvania (1972), England (1976), Bangladesh (1977) and Saudi Arabia (2002, to a Sudanese woman). None survived in these sets.
  • The Broderick set was born in Australia on 13 June 1971, five boys and four girls. None of them survived, although one lived six days.
  • The possible set may have occurred in Italy in 1979, but it is unknown if this was a set of nonuplets, or the Chinese octuplets (eight babies) that were born the same year.
  • The other recorded set was in Malaysia in 1999, to Zurina Mat Saad. Her five boys and four girls were named Adam, Nuh, Idris, Soleh, Hud, Aishah, Khadijah, Fatimah and Umi Kalsom, but none survived more than 6 hours.

[edit] Fictional multiple births

  • In the television series The Simpsons, Apu and Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon had octuplets: Anoop, Uma, Nabendu, Poonam, Pria, Sandeep, Sashi, and Gheet (also known as Lincoln, Freedom, Condoleezza, Coke, Pepsi, Manifest Destiny, Apple Pie, and Superman; they briefly had the stage names of Animal, Dazzle, Punchline, the Baron, and "the rest"). They were a result of an overdosage of fertility drugs. The record was soon broken by a couple who had nonuplets in Shelbyville, a neighbouring, rival town of Springfield.
  • In the television series Quintuplets, there are five children born simultaneously: Parker, Pierce, Patton, Penny, and Paige.
  • In the movie Raising Arizona, the plot is largely driven by the protagonists' kidnapping of Nathan Arizona, Jr., one of a set of quintuplets.
  • In the 1944 movie written and directed by Preston Sturges, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, the titular "miracle" is the birth of sextuplets.
  • Among Disney characters, multiple births seem to be rather common. Donald Duck's nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie are triplets; and so are Daisy Duck's nieces, April, May and June. Even the Beagle Boys have a set of triplet descendants, the Beagle Brats. However, considering all of the characters mentioned are animals who commonly have multiple births (or hatchings) this is no great surprise.
  • In Friends, Phoebe Buffay, herself an identical twin (her sister, Ursula, appeared as a recurring character on both Friends and Mad About You), acted as a surrogate mother for the triplet children of her brother and his wife, and she gave birth to two girls and a boy.
  • The cartoon series The Powerpuff Girls features of three girls who were created at the same time: Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup.
  • In the Metal Gear video game series, the player controls Solid Snake, one of a set of triplets who were cloned from Big Boss. The other two brothers, who play a crucial role in the storyline, are Liquid and Solidus.
  • The prolific mid 20th century British children's author, Elinor Brent-Dyer, had numerous cases of multiple births in her works. In the most extreme example, one extended family in her best known series, the Chalet School books, had nine sets of twins and one set of triplets over three generations.
  • In The Baby-Sitters Club, a series of children's books, junior member Mallory Pike has identical triplet brothers.
  • In the movie The Sheep Has Five Legs (1954) Fernandel plays a set of identical quintuplets.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Karshner Triplets 2005 Calendar. (2005). Amazon.com. Retrieved March 2, 2007.
  2. ^ Woolcock, Nicola. (September 1, 2004). "Girls become first triplets to get chance at Cambridge." Telegraph. Retrieved March 2, 2007.
  3. ^ Davis, Simon. (January 8, 2000). "Triplet shock for 54-year-old grandmother. Telegraph. Retrieved March 2, 2007.
  4. ^ "Grandmother of 15 pregnant with triplets." (January 7, 2000). Amarillo Globe-News. Retrieved March 2, 2007.
  5. ^ Karkabi, Barbara. (June 19, 2005). "Quadruplets a Rarity in 1915; Blessings times four." Houston Chronicle. Retrieved March 2, 2007.
  6. ^ "Quints in Cracow." (July 3, 2003). Warsaw Voice. Retrieved March 2, 2007.
  7. ^ The Hayes 6. (n.d.). Retrieved March 2, 2007.
  8. ^ "gives birth to sextuplets at B.C. hospital." (January 8, 2007). CTV.ca. Retrieved March 2, 2007.
  9. ^ "Sextuplets born in Vancouver, Canada." (January 8, 2007). Wikinews. Retrieved March 2, 2007.

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