Stories from the Heart

Things were so quiet at Sara Hayden’s Oak Park Heights home Tuesday that she didn’t know what to do.

Three is a big number in the Showen family.Ashley, Kristin and Austin Showen were the first triplets born at Charleston Area Medical Centers Women and Childrens Hospital. They each weighed 3 pounds and 4 ounces. They were born on March 3, 1989. They all th…

THE mother of snow baby triplets who arrived into the world eight weeks early has said they might not have made it but for the fantastic work of staff at their local hospital.

A Runnells couple is celebrating quadruplets. The babies were born at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines on Friday morning.

A set of rare identical quadruplets — Mackenzie, Meredith, Stephanie and Jessica Jackson — are in their first year at Hollins University. Stephanie is the poet. Mackenzie is the photographer, and the one who wears a baseball cap turned backward. Meredith is the music major. And Jessica? She’s the boss, she says — and all her sisters nod.

A couple that recently moved to Topeka has raised the city’s population by four.

SARAH Pavlenko made history 21 years ago as one of the world’s first IVF quintuplets.

It was Floyd Andrick’s seventh birthday, and the relatives werecelebrating at their Baker Road farmhouse in Mills Township, when aradio report came that a 20-year-old Canadian woman named EmilieDionne had died unexpectedly at a convent near Montreal.

As the mother of seven, Amie Spicocchi doesn’t think too far into the future. Right now, the Massillon mother and her husband, Vince, a city firefighter, are focused on getting the newest additions to her family — quintuplets born Aug. 3 — home. The babies — four girls and a boy — were born more than three months early at Akron General Medical Center.

A recent birthday party for the Sioux City quintuplets — three girls and two boys — born at Omaha’s Bergan Mercy Medical Center was a celebration of their first year and for their parents who survived it.

Things were so quiet at Sara Hayden’s Oak Park Heights home Tuesday that she didn’t know what to do.

A trust fund for the family has been set up at Fifth Third Bank in the name of Triplets Memorial Fund.

A DAY after she gave birth to triplets, Maricel Bate, 32, was still looking with disbelief at her identical boys, each weighing less than three kilos, as they slept on the wooden bed. “Sagol ang akong gibati (My feelings are mixed),” she said, the struggle she went through early Wednesday morning apparent in her weak voice and pallid face. Published in the Sun.Star Cebu newspaper on November 05 …

A local couple, both of whom are teachers at Trapnell Elementary School, know their lives will change dramatically when their triplets are born next year.

Early in the pregnancy, an exam revealed “three little hearts,” Dion told a Quebec TV interviewer. Five days later, another exam showed the heart had stopped beating.