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The World’s First Surviving Septuplets – 20 Years Later


Imagine getting pregnant, going to the doctor for a checkup, and receiving news that you are carrying not just one or two babies but seven of them? Yes, you heard that right – seven babies. I imagine you would take it with a lot of mixed feelings – excitement, shock, joy, uncertainty, and so on. Conceiving twins, triplets or even quadruplets is exciting but has very rare chances of occurring. Having septuplets is even unimaginable!  Twenty years ago, that happened to Bobbi and Kenny McCaughey.
The family living in Des Moines, Iowa, United States had one daughter, Mikayla Marie, born in 1996. They had experienced fertility challenges before their daughter was born since Bobbi had a failing pituitary gland. The pituitary gland helps to control the body’s functions by producing hormones into the bloodstream. So, the birth of Mikayla was a miracle in itself. Still, the couple wanted a much bigger family and opted for fertility treatment, but they obviously didn’t anticipate a family that big at one go.
Bobbi and Kenny McCaughey with their first daughter Mikayla Marie
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Statistics about Twins, Triplets and Multiple Births
Having more than one baby occurs when an egg either divides into more than one embryo or when a sperm fertilizes more than one egg in the womb. If an egg splits into more than one embryo, which is a random rare occurrence, the babies will share same genetic material, making them identical. In the case of more than one egg being fertilized, the babies will not share 100 percent genetic material and will result in a fraternal birth. The chances of having twins, triplets or multiples are influenced by many factors.  The statistics of having multiple births and anticipating your own odds of making it in the multiples birth lottery is an interesting topic.
Over the past few decades, the chance of having an identical set of twins is estimated to be about 3.5 out of every 1,000 births globally. The chances are low as only about 12-18 in 1,000 people are naturally conceived twins. In the U.S., twin births are estimated to be about 35 in 1,000. Fraternal births have increased to about 77 percent in the last three decades due to fertility treatments. A fertility treatment is thus one of the factors that could result in multiple births, which is the route that Bobbi and Kenny McCaughey took.  Other factors could be hereditary.
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Fertility Treatment
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Desperate to add to their small family, the McCaughey’s decided to go for fertility medicine. Such treatments fuel the ovulation and can help people with fertility issues conceive. Afterwards, while going through regular checkups and scans, the doctors realized that Bobbi was carrying, surprisingly, seven embryos. It was a medical miracle!  Although multiple births occur while on fertility drugs, seven is just too big a number. Occasionally, doctors’ recommend a selective reduction to increase the chances of survival since multiple births are plagued with complications, which the McCaughey’s declined.  To them, the best way to handle it was to leave it in God’s hands.
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