rare quadruplets born

A mother has given birth to a rare set of quadruplets in which three of the four boys are identical. The boys were born 11 weeks premature in January at Greater Baltimore Medical Center in Towson. The parents plan to introduce themselves and their boys at a news conference Friday.
There are fewer than 100 documented cases of "identical triplets plus one" in the United States, hospital officials said.
Two embryos were implanted into the mother, hospital spokesman Michael Schwartzberg said. One of them split, then split again, creating the identical triplets.
The boys were delivered by Caesarean section Jan. 29, their mother's 32nd birthday. Joshua Drew was born first, then Gavin Michael, Cody Benjamin and finally Logan Christopher, the non-identical one, Schwartzberg said.
The babies were treated at the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit, and all four have been home in Belcamp for about 2 1/2 weeks, Schwartzberg said.

Amazing and Incredible births

-A 32-year-old woman from Belcamp, Md., gave birth to these quadruplets on Jan. 29. Three of the four boys are identical triplets. There are fewer than 100 documented cases of "identical triplets plus one" in the United States. The parents plan to introduce the boys to the media Friday.

-Mother Bhuri unexpectedly gave birth to this baby girl Feb. 26 in the bathroom of a train in India. Family members said Bhuri passed out and the baby fell through the toilet and onto the tracks. The child, born around nine weeks prematurely and weighing only 3.22 pounds, lay on the tracks for nearly two hours until they found her -- alive.

-At age 51, Rosinete Palmeira Serrao, center, gave birth to her own twin grandchildren in Brazil in September 2007. She was a surrogate for her daughter, Claudia Michelle.

-In August 2007, Victoria Lasita gave birth to her second set of triplets. The odds of that are just one in 64 million.

-Tamera Dixon, shown healthy at 4 months old in August 2007, weighed only 11 ounces when she was born in Trenton, N.J.

Jim and Michelle Duggar welcomed their 17th child, Jennifer, to the family in Rogers, Ark., in August 2007.

-Amillia Sonja Taylor lies next to a pen at the Miami hospital where she was born to Sonja Taylor in October 2006. She went on to survive after weighing just 10 ounces at birth. She is the same size as the pen.

-Quadruplets were born in Los Angeles to Angela Magdaleno and Afredo Anzaldo in July 2006. Just three years earlier, the couple had triplets.

-At the age of 62, Janise Wulf had her 12th child in Redding, Calif., in February 2006. At the time, she also had 20 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

-Ademilton dos Santos weighed 16.7 pounds when Francisca Ramos dos Santos gave birth to him in January 2005 in Salvador, Brazil.

Oh my gosh! Why would a woman want to have a child at age 62? Could you imagine the kid's childhood? Figure that the mom is probably near retirement already. And let's say the kid is 10 in fifth grade, and mom is 72. If the mom lives to see thier kid graduate highschool at 17, then she will be 79. How is that a good way to raise a child? Living in a retirement community. The kid would never last at school or anything becuase they are so used to everyone being 60 or more years older than them. How aweful!

Why do women try to defy the laws of aging? Trying to have a kid later and later in their life? It's not good for them. At 60, a woman's body isn't prepared to have a kid. Could you imagine how many complications there could be? Not to mention how scary it would be. I mean, come on! Have your kids in your 20's, 30's, and 40's. No later. If you have a kid at retirement age, then the kid's life will be traumatic. Think of the children!

~Celticsgirl