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Dilley sextuplets - Wikipedia

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Dilley Sextuplets
Born	(1993-05-25) May 25, 1993 (age 31) Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Other names	Dilley siblings

The Dilley sextuplets (born May 25, 1993) are the United States' first set of surviving sextuplets, born to Becki and Keith Dilley in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. They are, in birth order:

Baby Order	Time of Birth	Sex	Birth Weight	Name
A	5:28 PM	Girl	2 lbs 6 oz	Brenna Rose
B	5:28 PM	Boy	2 lbs 13 oz	Julian Emerson
C	5:29 PM	Boy	2 lbs 11 oz	Quinn Everett
D	5:30 PM	Girl	2 lbs 7 oz	Claire Diane
E	5:30 PM	Boy	2 lbs 13 oz	Ian Michael
F	5:32 PM	Boy	2 lbs 2 oz	Adrian Reed

Biography

The siblings were the first surviving sextuplets to be born in the USA.

The parents of the sextuplets, Becki and Keith Dilley, met as co-workers at a Wendy's restaurant in Indiana. They married and attempted to conceive for 5 years without results.^[1] Following consultation with a doctor, they were told they had little chance of conceiving naturally. Following several more years of trying to conceive, they underwent fertility treatment using the drug Pergonal. The sextuplets were conceived as a result of this.^[1]

Throughout the pregnancy, all ultrasounds showed five babies. After five had been delivered the doctor reached in to retrieve the placenta and grabbed a foot instead, and said, "There's a sixth baby." Everyone initially thought she was kidding, but she wasn't.^[1] The sixth was hiding behind the mother's spleen.^[2]

The Dilley children have appeared on a few television segments, but say that they don't want to live life "under a microscope".

From 1997 the family have lived in Northeastern Indiana.^[3]

Popular culture

An American film telling the story of the sextuplets' parents prior, and a few years after their births, called Half a Dozen Babies featuring real-life husband and wife Scott Reeves and Melissa Reeves was made in 1999 for ABC.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Bonus Babies". People. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
^ "Revisiting the Dilley Sextuplets". ABC News. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
^ RetroIndy: The Dilley Sextuplets | Indianapolis Star | indystar.com Retrieved 2014-11-01.
^ "TV movie features Dilley sextuplets". Reading Eagle. Retrieved 28 January 2011.

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