Quintuplets Born In Two Minutes

In just two minutes, Perth Mum, Kim Tucci, 26, gave birth to her quintuplets – one boy and four girls.

Kim and her husband Vaughn announced on Friday on her Facebook page that the couple had welcomed five new children to their family. The five babies: a son, Keith, and four daughters, Ali, Penelope, Tiffany and Beatrix were all born at King Edward Memorial Hospital at 30 weeks gestation. All babies are healthy and thriving.

Naturally falling pregnant with the quintuplets, Kim has a nine-year-old son from a previous marriage and two daughters with her husband Vaughn. She has been documenting her pregnancy progression on her blog, ‘Surprised by Five,’ to a widely supportive readership.

Kim wrote about her struggles with back pain, 12 bathroom trips a night and consuming the recommended 6,000 calories a day to feed her five babies.

“I’m struggling to eat and force feed myself leaving me with reflux for hours,” she wrote on her blog, “I can’t tolerate a lot of dairy and I can’t keep protein drinks down, I’m starting to lose weight when I really need to be gaining it.”

Amassing a following of more than 123,000 people, her online posts about dealing with pain, nausea, changes to her body and going to the bathroom 12 times a night has seen an outpouring of support and personal stories from other mums also sharing their own stories.

“It’s getting harder as each day passes to push through the pain, every part of my body aches and sleeping is becoming very painful,” she said. “No amount of pillows are helping support my back and belly. Sometime I get so upset that I just want to throw my hands up and give in!”

“‘I have a lot of stretch marks now, dealing with such a huge change in my body is hard. My husband always reminds me I should wear my stripes with pride and that I should be proud of them and what my body has achieved. Is it all worth it? ‘Yes!!!! I will keep pushing through.”

Kim recently shared that she is preparing for the changes the five little babes will make to their family life.

“I have only just really embraced this pregnancy and what it will mean for my family, the last few days has been a reality check that it’s all really happening! It’s hard to accept life will change forever and my small family will be HUGE all in one hit,’ she said.

Image source: Facebook/surprisedbyfive

26 Comments

- - youngoldlady said
  - 22 Mar 2016
    10:00 pm
Congratulation on the babies and hope everything goes well. hope you have plenty of helpers when they come home.

- - BellaB said
  - 29 Feb 2016
    3:55 pm
Congratulations. I’m not surprised that was a tough pregnancy.

- - momof4:) said
  - 19 Feb 2016
    9:10 pm
I was horribly sooky and suffering with one normal pregnancy, cannot imagine what this woman went through, wishing her all the best 🙂

- - coastalkaryn said
  - 12 Feb 2016
    8:05 pm
jeepers creepers – what an effort. love to you all. how blessed you are to have such a big family

- - mom94125 said
  - 05 Feb 2016
    5:59 pm
lol at those names though! cool little combination.

- - mom94125 said
  - 01 Feb 2016
    9:34 pm
that would have been so tough! now there will be lots of work! i hope that they have a lot of help

- - coastalkaryn said
  - 31 Jan 2016
    8:52 pm
gosh Kim – must have been hell! Hope you are enjoying motherhood

- - Mummytoabeautifulprincess said
  - 31 Jan 2016
    12:12 pm
Oh my goooooodness! 5 babies! Amaaaaazing! Wear those stripes with pride mumma!!

- - youngoldlady said
  - 31 Jan 2016
    4:38 am
Read about her in the paper and wondered how her life has changed so much. Time to get some help for all those children.

- - aprilb1 said
  - 30 Jan 2016
    10:50 pm
Wow five babies, it would be full on!

- - mom74640 said
  - 30 Jan 2016
    9:32 pm
Lke nu

- - mom105503 said
  - 30 Jan 2016
    8:28 pm
What beautiful news and so glad the babies are doing well, they are certainly going to have their hands full.

- - cherz said
  - 30 Jan 2016
    8:13 pm
Wow thats one huge family but I guess she has youth on her side.
Wishing them all well ..much happiness and wonderful health.
- mom93821 replied
  
  31 Jan 2016 , 8:17 am
  The energy of youth should help with all of those little cherubs.
- - rachelvk said
  - 30 Jan 2016
    8:05 pm
Congratulations to the whole family! How exciting and life changing for them all!

- - curlytops said
  - 30 Jan 2016
    6:08 pm
that is amazing to have them naturally. good on her!

- - mom160421 said
  - 30 Jan 2016
    3:33 pm
This is going to be a huge change and a lot of work for this family. I hope they get a lot of support and I wish them all the best.

- - mom93821 said
  - 30 Jan 2016
    2:48 pm
Congratulations to them on the birth of their babies. Wishing them the best with their babies.

- - mum4107 said
  - 30 Jan 2016
    2:35 pm
Congratulations. 5 babies. That is amazing

- - mom90758 said
  - 30 Jan 2016
    2:26 pm
Yes, she was all over the newspaper here in WA today. It’s so amazing. And having quintuplets naturally is so special! The last quintuplets in WA were 20 years ago. Coincidentally also 1 boy and 4 girls. Congratulations!!

- - Lori-Anne said
  - 30 Jan 2016
    2:25 pm
What an amazing feet… they are all reasonably healthy size babies considering there are 5 of them and arrived at 30 weeks. Congratulations.