Many people told Adeboye Taiwo in the Western Nigerian town where he was from that he should divorce his wife and find one that could have babies.
Adeboye and his wife Ajibola Taiwo unsuccessfully tried to get conceive for 17 years.
They even spent more than $213,000 in the process on fertility treatments but Adeboye refused to give up on his wife. He also refused to give up on becoming a father.
“I made it known to them that I love my wife so deeply,” he told the Standard. “I assured them that my wife, Ajibola, would surely give birth to baby for me at God’s own time and in His season.”
And Abeboye’s faith paid off… big time.
“I was excited,” Adeboye told CNN. “For the very first time, we were expecting.”
And now Adeboye is a father of six.
Ajibola gave birth to three boys and three girls when she was only 30 weeks pregnant with the help of folks at Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU Virginia.
A team of 40 people worked to deliver the babies. The medical team had to prepare in advance for this birth and conduct drills and resuscitation exercises to prepare for the birth of the sextuplets who were delivered by C-section
Sextuplets are extremely rare and only 24 reported cases in 2015.
The babies were born between 1 lb 10 oz. to 2 lb and 15 oz.
“The team quickly assembled to begin prenatal management and delivery planning including pre-delivery drills and resuscitation exercises. A typical labor and delivery shift includes one, perhaps two premature births, usually with time in between. We had to coordinate with our colleagues in the NICU for six premature babies to be delivered simultaneously,” the hospital’s medical director of labor and delivery, Dr. Susan lanni, said in the press release.
“I hope for the smallest of my six children to grow up and say, ‘I was so small, and look at me now,'” Ajibola said.
Thankfully, all of her babies are doing well. A feat which the parents credit the medical staff with.
“The medical team is excellent in medicine and hospitality,” Adeboye said in the statement. “We are far from home but the medical team is our family. That is what got us this far.”
The medical teams said that building a relationship with the family was key to the successful birth.
They said it was a team effort.
“We’re going through this extraordinary journey together with the family,” Ronald Ramus, M.D., director of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at VCU Medical Center, said. “It’s not every day that parents bring home sextuplets. Mrs. Taiwo was eating, sleeping and breathing for seven. A lot of the support and encouragement we gave her to make it as far as she did was important, and one of the biggest contributions we made as a team.”
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