HOUSTON (AP) -- A Houston woman has given birth to a set of rare identical quadruplets, conceived without fertility drugs or in vitro fertilization. They are among fewer than 50 such sets ever recorded.
Two of the four babies born two months ago - three months prematurely - may get to go home this week, where their 15-month-old brother awaits them.
Daphne, Chloe, Bonnie and Adele Breedlove are the first set of identical quadruplets born at Woman's Hospital of Texas, according to Houston television station KHOU.
"I look at all four of them and I love them so much," said mother Shelley Breedlove, herself an identical twin. "I can't imagine not having them at this point."
The mother, whose babies weighed between 2 and 2 1/2 pounds when they were born, said she will use homemade ankle bracelets to keep track of her daughters.
"Bonnie has a butterfly, Chloe has a car," she said. "I look at them, and I can't tell the difference to save my life."
WTF would a parent do if she permanantly lost track of who was who as infants?
That would suck... then the kids might end up growing up having a different name than original. I guess it's not that big of a deal, but still very weird.
Hmmmm...
I never thought about this before, but I guess Identical twins have the same exact fingerprints? Neat!
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I was thinking the same thing about the microchip.
Guess that's what you get when you program computers all day.
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Funny - no mention of Dad in the article. I hope this isn't the case, but maybe he wigged out and ran away when he heard the news. If she's a single mother of 5 in 1 year, too bad, she'll need all the help she can get. Maybe the over/under ought to be on how long it takes her to 'commercialize' her kids? Seems inevitable with multiples.
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