An Australian couple, Kimberly Tucci and Vaughn Tucci welcomed their 5 beautiful babies in January. The pair who already had two daughters wanted to try for another one, probably a son. But what they got was one son, with four more daughters. In a rare case, Kim Tucci, who is a 27-year-old woman from Perth, delivered her quintuplets.
Kim has a 9-year-old son from a previous relationship and two daughters with current husband. The family of four has now expanded to nine as the quintuplets Keith, Ali, Penelope, Tiffany and Beatrix were born. It is a 1 in 55 million cases. And as adorable as the babies look, the pregnancy took a toll on the mother.
Her weight shot up and the muscles in her stomach wall had separated and stretched beyond saving. A surgery costing $18,000 dollars was carried out by Dr Tom Cooper to repair the damage done to her body. Kim shared how her confidence went down due to the damage and she was continuously out of energy. But now, after going from 106 kilos to 78 kilos, she says it “feels like a new person. I feel like me again. I lost that throughout the pregnancy but now I've regained it”.
Thanks to Multiple Birth Volunteer Support, the family has 150 volunteers to help them with the babies. 'The volunteers will be doing stuff like helping to feed babies, changing nappies, helping with washing bottles and preparing feeds and changing linen and washing baby clothes and all those sorts of tasks,' Ms Bingham, who heads the project said.