A single mother who was born a quadruplet delivered a set of premature quintuplet „rainbow babies“ in Texas following the loss of her first child.
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.
Theresa Troia, a 36-year-old nurse consultant, delivered five babies via cesarean section on June 3 at just 28 weeks of gestation.
A whole team of medical staff at the Las Palmas Medical Center flanked the mother and “had every second planned and every role ready” to support her through the delivery and months of NICU stays with the quints.
Troia gave birth to three daughters, including Isabella and Viviana, and two boys.
Isabella and Viviana are identical monochorionic-diamniotic, or Mo-Di, twins, meaning they shared a placenta in utero but grew in amniotic sacs.
The other three children are named Kyla, Joseph and Jaxon.
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.
