AUSTIN, Texas - (Jan. 16, 2009) - A clinical team of close to 30 members, including physicians, labor and delivery, maternity and neonatal intensive care unit nurses, techs and physicians at Seton Medical Center Austin, a member of the Seton Family of Hospitals, has delivered Texas' first quintuplets of the year.
Born to Casey and Ethan Jones of Austin, the mother and five infants are doing well. The C-section delivery took place between noon and 1 p.m. today.
The quintuplets, four girls and a boy, were delivered at approximately 30 weeks gestation. The infants are stabilized and doing well in the Marialice Shivers Regional Neonatal Center at Seton Medical Center Austin - a 44-bed Level III NICU.
While they remain in the NICU, the infants will receive care from teams of nurses, respiratory therapists, neonatal nurse practitioners and neonatologists.
Casey will recover in Seton Medical Center Austin's new maternity unit, which is part of an expansion of the hospital that opened in November.
Babies' weights at birth are as follows:
Baby A - 2 lbs, 13 oz. (girl)
Baby B - 2 lbs., 2 oz. (girl)
Baby C - 2 lbs., 11 oz (boy)
Baby D - 2 lbs., 3 oz. (girl)
Baby E - 2 lbs., 10 oz. (girl)
This is the second set of quintuplets born at Seton Medical Center Austin.
Seton is proud to have four hospitals – the only hospitals in Central Texas - that have earned the