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N.Y. Woman Expecting Sextuplets

Posted on: Sunday, 7 September 2008, 21:00 CDT

A New York couple who have trying for years to have a second child will finally get their wish -- and then some, since they're set to have sextuplets.

Victor and Digna Carpio, naturalized citizens from Ecuador, said they didn't want their 7-year-old son, Jhancarlos, to grow up alone. But they didn't expect it to work out this way.

They learned the news nearly five months ago after Digna Carpio, 31, became ill during a gym workout, the New York Daily News reported Sunday.

"I suddenly felt faint, and my heart began racing wildly," she told the newspaper.

She rushed to the hospital, where doctors determined she was two weeks pregnant.

Doctors first thought she was carrying quintuplets and that "a mass behind the babies" could be a tumor, Digna Carpio said. But the mass was actually a sixth fetus. She is carrying four boys and two girls.

"Mami, that's too many babies," the expectant mother recalled Jhancarlos shrieking. "They'll destroy the house!"

But her son soon warmed to the idea and now "reads and sings to the babies every day," his mother told the newspaper.

Digna Carpio, who stands barely 5 feet tall, is in her 21st week and spends most mornings in bed sleeping.

Source: United Press International

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