Medical blog

'Meet our babies: A, B, C, D, E & F'
A Queens couple spent seven years raising their only child, a
son - until New York's second set of sextuplets arrived.
The four boys and two girls were born this month to Digna
Carpio, 31, and her husband Victor, 36, a maintenance worker
with the city's housing authority.
Doctors at first gave one girl only a 25 per cent chance because
of a problem with a heart valve that has since been repaired
surgically; she now has a 75 per cent chance.
"I've watched each of my babies fight so hard to survive," their
teary-eyed mother told the
.
"Life is beautiful, and we're so thankful."
The sextuplets were born at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Medical
Centre.
Until their parents named them, they were known as babies A, B,
C, D, E and F.
But they have now been named. The boys are Justin, Jezreel, Joel
and Jaden. The girls are Danelia and Genesis.
All, observed the couple's seven-year-old son Jhancarlos, are
"so tiny and wrinkled".
Now, the family suddenly has to care for seven children.
City council member Tony Avella started a collection for baby
supplies from his Queens office.
New York's only other sextuplets, the Boniellos, were born in
1997 at Stony Brook University Hospital on Long Island.