Quintuplets Births
Mrozek Quintuplets - Sartell, Minnesota
Mrozek Quintuplets
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Jessie Mrozek, a Sartell, Minn. mom gave birth Thursday to a rare set of quintuplets, one day short of three months before their full-term due date.
The five babies, three boys and two girls, were born at 7:52 a.m. Thursday to Jessie, 29, and her husband Rory, 30, at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis. This is the same hospital that the Morrison Sextuplets were born at as well.
The babies weigh between 1 pound, 15 ounces and 2 pounds, 10 ounces. Each baby is between 12 and 14 inches long.
Doctors say that four of the babies have a 95% chance of survival based on their birth weight and gestation period of 27 weeks.
The babies are the neonatal intensive care unit of Children’s hospital, which works closely with Abbott.
Jessie's water broke at 4 a.m. Thursday which forced the emergency Caesarean section.
The five babies Jackson Nelson, Lainey Ann, Matthew James, Breah Lynn and Nathan Dean were born in that order between 7:45 and 7:57 a.m.
The doctors didn’t think Lainey was going to make it at first and they told Jessie she could hold her foot. Apparently the power of a mothers love took over and as soon as Jessie touched her Laineys stats went up.
November 9 Update: The Mrozek quintuplets continue to improve in the neonatal intensive care unit at Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, Minneapolis, according to Rory Mrozek, the babies’ father.
The quints born Oct. 18 to Rory and Jessie Mrozek, have been in Minneapolis since birth. Breah, Lainey, Nathan and Matthew are off their feeding tubes, Rory Mrozek said. Jackson is still on the feeding tube, he said.
The children are now eating 10-25 ccs (about one-third to eight-tenths of an ounce) every three hours, the couple said. That’s increased from about 1 cc every eight hours shortly after birth. Doctors are using a combination of Jessie Mrozek’s breast milk and nutritional and calorie supplements, they said.
“They’re plumping up good,” Jessie Mrozek said.
