Triplets turned into quadruplets for one Jayess, Miss. woman. Feb. 8
Kimberly Fugate found out she was have triplets during a prenatal visit in November, a day prior to her 42 birthday The Clarion Ledger reported Friday. She then unexpectedly found out she was giving birth to four babies and not three at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. The news also surprised Kimberly's husband.
"I was very embarrassed, obviously," Dr. James Bofill, director of maternal-fetal medicine at the medical center and the doctor for Fugate told The Clarion Ledger. "The news was sent to me by one of my fellows. I thought she was kidding," Bofill told The Clarion Ledger.
Bofill had never seen anything like what he had with Fugate during the 27 years he has been in the medical profession.
"We've seen quadruplets here before, but we've never seen identical quadruplets," Bofill told The Clarion Ledger. "That's what makes this case so unique and unusual," Bofill told The Clarion Ledger.
"No one really knows what makes a single zygote separate into identical twins or identical triplets, or in this case, identical quadruplets," Bofill told The Clarion Ledger. "It's definitely an accident; it's not supposed to happen and, in some cases, like Ms. Fugate's, it happens in a spectacular manner."
The newest Fugate children in Kenleigh, Kristen, Kaleigh and the fourth Kelsey are reportedly going to stay at the UMMC's neonatal intensive care division with a May departure because they came out prior to their expected due date The Clarion Ledger reported.
The four, which were born prematurely coming at 28 weeks, are doing well, although they've experienced issues, commonplace in instances where a woman gives birth to more than one baby during a pregnancy The Clarion Ledger reported.
Kimberly's 10-year-old daughter Katelyn will now help ready the family's house for the time when the quadruplets come home.
