Rare quadruplets born — three identical
Wow, given the gazillions of babies that have been born in the United States, to be able to say that your birth is only one of 100 documented cases is pretty significant.
A 32-year-old mother from Belcamp gave birth in January to quadruplets — and three of the four boys are identical. The parents and the boys plan to introduce themselves at a news conference Friday.
The boys were born 11 weeks premature at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center in Towson.
Hospital officials said there are fewer than 100 documented cases of “identical triplets plus one” in the United States.
Even without the extra baby, identical triplets are rare, although how rare is difficult to say. Multiple births, however, are more common since the advent of fertility drugs and in vitro fertilization, which was used to conceive the triplets born at GBMC.
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