The Second Woman In The U.S. To Gᴀᴠᴇ Bɪʀᴛʜ To Sᴇxᴛᴜᴘʟᴇᴛs
she said she could feel exactly where each of the babies were sitting: one on each hip, three lower down on her ᴘᴇʟᴠɪs and another which moved up and down.
The couple had sᴛʀᴜɢɢʟᴇᴅ for years to have children, and Mrs Carroll had four ᴍɪsᴄᴀʀʀɪᴀɢᴇs before being diagnosed with ᴘᴏʟʏᴄʏsᴛɪᴄ ᴏᴠᴀʀɪᴇs. To have Grant, Mrs Carroll underwent ɪɴᴛʀᴀᴜᴛᴇʀɪɴᴇ ɪɴsᴇᴍɪɴᴀᴛɪᴏɴ, in which she took ꜰᴇʀᴛɪʟɪᴛʏ ᴅʀᴜɢs ᴛᴏ ʙᴏᴏsᴛ ʜᴇʀ ᴏᴡɴ ᴇɢɢ production before her ʜᴜsʙᴀɴᴅ’s sᴘᴇʀᴍ ᴡᴀs ɪɴᴊᴇᴄᴛᴇᴅ ᴅɪʀᴇᴄᴛʟʏ ɪɴᴛᴏ ʜᴇʀ ᴜᴛᴇʀᴜs.She went through the same process for her next ᴘʀᴇɢɴᴀɴᴄʏ. It can sometimes result in ᴛᴡɪɴs ᴏʀ ᴛʀɪᴘʟᴇᴛs – ʙᴜᴛ ʀᴀʀᴇʟʏ sᴇxᴛᴜᴘʟᴇᴛs.
In an interview shortly before the babies ᴡᴇʀᴇ ʙᴏʀɴ, she described her five-week sᴄᴀɴ. She said: “I thought the ɴᴜʀsᴇ ᴡᴀs ɢᴏɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ꜰᴀɪɴᴛ. Then she said, “Oh, no, there’s six,” and started apologizing.” Once the sʜᴏᴄᴋ wore off, Mrs Carroll said she just started ᴄʀʏɪɴɢ. She said: “All I could think about was, “how are we going to take care of six babies?” because we had a hard enough time with our first.” But her husband, a maintenance mechanic at a paper plant, said the family would manage.
A month before the babies ᴡᴇʀᴇ ʙᴏʀɴ, Mrs Carroll was admitted to Brockwood Medical Center for round-the-clock monitoring. For the last few days, she was ᴇxᴘᴇʀɪᴇɴᴄɪɴɢ ʀᴇɢᴜʟᴀʀ ᴄᴏɴᴛʀᴀᴄᴛɪᴏɴs and had to take medication to stop the babies coming too soon. In the end, the babies arrived just in time for Father’s Day, and Mr Carroll spent the day rushing from incubator to incubator, sporting five pink ID bands and one blue, to show he could visit the babies.
