Woman has Quadruplets; three are identical
By Danell Swim
April 18, 2008
A Harford County family is celebrating an unusual multiple birth.
A 32-year-old mother from Belcamp gave birth in January to quadruplets — and three of the four boys are identical. The parents and the boys plan to introduce themselves at a news conference Friday.
The boys were born 11 weeks premature at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center in Towson.
Hospital officials said there are fewer than 100 documented cases of “identical triplets plus one” in the United States.
Even without the extra baby, identical triplets are rare, although how rare is difficult to say. Multiple births, however, are more common since the advent of fertility drugs and in vitro fertilization, which was used to conceive the triplets born at GBMC.
GBMC spokesman Michael Schwartzberg said two embryos were implanted into the mother, and both were successfully fertilized. One of them split, then split again, creating the identical triplets.
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