A woman who gave birth to quadruplets at a Naperville, Ill., hospital conceived without the use of fertility drugs — an estimated 1-in-512,000 conception.
Anissa Medrano, who gave birth to the four babies Oct. 4 at Edward Hospital, said multiple births run in her family, the Arlington Heights (Ill.) Daily Herald reported Thursday. She said both of her grandmothers are twins, her aunt and uncle are twins, and her sisters are twins.
Doctors at the hospital said naturally occurring quadruplets are a rare occurrence, and Medrano’s case was even rarer — two of the children are identical twins, the Chicago Tribune reported.
She was kind of meant to have (quadruplets), said Dr. Don Taylor, medical director of perinatology at the hospital, told the Herald. Her body handled it well.
Dr. Bob Covert, director of the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit, said the infants, who were delivered one day shy of 31 weeks gestation, were doing well but would probably be hospitalized for about 8 weeks.
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