Theresa Troia, 36, a nurse consultant in El Paso, delivered quintuplets on June 3 by C-section at Las Palmas Medical Center. The five babies were conceived without fertility drugs and include three daughters and two sons. The infants were born at 28 weeks, with weights ranging from 1 pound, 3 ounces to 2 pounds, 8 ounces. Three of the babies—Kyla, Jaxon and Isabella—have been discharged home; Joseph and Viviana remain hospitalized and are expected to join them soon. Troia experienced initial fear about single parenting five newborns but described the delivery as well-orchestrated and surprisingly calm. Quintuplets occur about once in 60 million births.
"I remember calling my best friend and saying, 'Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God,'" Troia says. "I was afraid to say the words out loud because it would mean I had to accept it, and part of me thought, 'No way can I do this on my own.'"
"Everything was so well-orchestrated and rehearsed," she says. "It all went smoothly. I worried I wouldn't be able to turn off my nurse brain and just be a patient, but I was actually able to enjoy it."
"My mom made this happen," Troia says, sharing that Lily had originally been pregnant with quintuplets but lost one.
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