Saturday, August 18, 2007

Workin' The Quads

A 35-year-old Canadian woman has given birth to rare identical quadruplets.

Karen Jepp of Calgary, Alberta, delivered Autumn, Brooke, Calissa and Dahlia by Caesarian section Sunday afternoon.

"These babies are doing grand," said Dr. Tom Key of Great Falls, the perinatologist who delivered the girls.

The babies were born about two months early and were conceived without fertility drugs, he said. They weighed between 2.6 pounds and 2.15 pounds.

The chance of giving birth to identical quadruplets is about one in 13 million, Key said.

Unfortunately…they all look like this:

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