America's first known set of all-girl quintuplets came into the world on April 8. Talk about joy -- times five!
Danielle Busby delivered all five girls within just four minutes via C-section at The Woman's Hospital of Texas. She and her husband, Adam, already had a 3-year-old daughter named Blayke.
ABC News writes that the newborns are the first all-female quints "in the world since 1969 ... according to a statement from the Woman's Hospital of Texas."
Blayke got to come meet them, which was so cute. She had her big sister shirt on," Danielle explained in a video on the family's blog.



The quintuplets, who were born at 28 weeks, all need only "modest" breathing support, according to the hospital. Having quintuplets is quite rare.


According to the National Center for Health Statistics, only 66 sets of five or more babies were born in 2013, the year of the most recent report. Compare that with the more than 130,000 sets of twins born the same year.
According to a multiples expert writing for About.com, the odds of having quintuplets only occurs once in about 60 million births.


In 2014, a set of quintuplets the media affectionately called "The Fab Five"were born in a Dallas-area hospital. That set isn't as rare as the Busby quints, though, since they had four girls and one boy.
As of Wednesday, the Busby quintuplets were still being cared for at The woman's hospital of Texas

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