We Wanted Just One More Baby To Complete Our Family – Then Fell Pregnant With All-Girl Quintuplets, The Second Set Of All-Girl Quintuplets Recorded In The US
Heather Langley, 39, and her partner Priscilla Rodriguez, 35, both from Texas, welcomed their five daughters – Hadley, Reagan, Zariah, Zylah and Jocelyn – in August 2020, following an ᴇᴍᴇʀɢᴇɴᴄʏ C-sᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴ when Heather was 28 weeks pregnant. The infants are only the second set of all-girl quintuplets recorded in the US. The couple, who have been together for nine years, already had a daughter together, Sawyer, three.
“I immediately felt scared when we found out there was going to be five because I feared my pregnancy would be worrying and complicated. However, after the initial sʜᴏᴄᴋ and the news had sunk in, I realized how special and unique our babies were going to be. It feels like we have won the lottery. “Heather said
They used the I.U.I method again, the same fertility treatment they used to have Sawyer their first child, although they weren’t able to use the same sᴘᴇʀᴍ donor because it wasn’t available. Intrauterine insemination (I.U.I) is a method of fertility treatment which places washed and concentrated sᴘᴇʀᴍ directly into the uterus around the time the ovary releases one or more eggs to be fertilized.
Out of their five babies, they were really hoping they were going to get a couple of boys, but that wasn’t to be. At around 19 weeks they knew they were five baby girls. “what are we going to do with them all, when we found out that they were going to be the second ever set of all-girl quintuplets in the US, we felt so blessed with how rare and extraordinary they were.”
An ᴇᴍᴇʀɢᴇɴᴄʏ C-sᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴ where all five babies were delivered in the space of three minutes.
The mum-of-six said: “Their due date was 2 November, but as they were so early they had to spend the first three months of their lives in the ʜᴏsᴘɪᴛᴀʟ. The first one came home on Halloween, and the last came home on 2 December.