RICHMOND, Va. -- A Virginia hospital says its staff has successfully delivered sextuplets and the three boys and three girls are thriving.
VCU Medical Center in Richmond announced the births in a statement Wednesday, saying they were the first sextuplets delivered at the hospital. The babies were born May 11 to parents who had tried to conceive for 17 years.
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The statement says a 40-person team was involved and the delivery required hours of planning. Ajibola Taiwo, a native of Nigeria, gave birth via cesarean section.
The babies ranged from 1 pound, 10 ounces, to 2 pounds, 15 ounces.
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Sextuplets are quite rare. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, of the nearly 4 million live births in the U.S. in 2015, only 24 were quintuplets or other higher-order births.