Quadruplet Surprise

I think this story is pretty amazing.  I just had to share it on here . . .

From: News Limited Network        1 day ago February 18, 2014 1:23AM

Expecting triplets, Kimberly Fugate surprised
to deliver a rare set of quads          

      

Baby bonus ... Kimberly Fugate was surprised to deliver a fourth identical baby girl.          

A MOTHER who thought she was having triplets got the surprise of a lifetime when doctors discovered a rare fourth baby during delivery.

“There are more feet,” a physician told Kimberly Fugate after she had delivered the first three.
The four babies, all girls, were born at the University of Mississippi Medical Center on Saturday, just shy of 13 weeks premature.
The Clarion Ledger reports that the fourth baby had somehow managed to hide during the numerous ultrasounds Ms Fugate, 42, underwent during her pregnancy.

 

Fugate four ... baby Kelsey was hidden by sisters Kenleigh, Kristen and Kayleigh.

Ms Fugate told the newspaper her husband, Craig, only learned of the last-minute addition when he visited her in the recovery room, where she held up her arm adorned with four plastic identification bracelets and told him to count.
Dr James Bofill, UMMC’s director of maternal-foetal medicine, said discovering a fourth baby during the delivery was a first in his 27-year career.
“I was very embarrassed, obviously,” he said. “The news was sent to me by one of my fellows. I thought she was kidding.”

    

Count ‘em ... Craig Fugate only learned of the fourth baby when he saw an extra identification tag on his wife’s wrist.    

Dr Bofill said the odds of spontaneous quadruplets were 1 in 729,000. But in Ms Fugates’ case, the odds were even smaller because their girls split from a single egg, meaning the siblings are identical.
“Those odds are incalculable,” he said.
The Fugate four — Kenleigh, Kristen, Kaleigh and the bonus, Kelsey — will join big sister Katelyn, who is 10.

This. Is. It’ ... a happy Kimberly Fugate says she’s now done having babies.    

Asked by the Ledger if she plans on having more children, Ms Fugate was resolute.
“This. Is. It,” the smiling mum said.