Mum, 26, brings home extremely rare miracle quintuplets after months in hospital

12 May 2023 , 13:12

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The young parents have a lot on their hands (Image: Haylee Ladner)

A mum has finally been discharged from hospital two months after giving birth to extremely rare quintuplets.

Haylee Ladner, 26, brought her five babies home in time to celebrate her first Mother's Day on Sunday.

Some of her babies had made it back to the MIssissippi home before their mum with the youngest, Jake going home on April 27.

Jake was followed home by sisters Magnolia, then Adalyn and finally by Everleigh, Malley Kate and the exhausted mum Haylee on May 5 - all in time for Mother's Day on Sunday May 14.

Her squad of sprogs arrived well before the due date of May 10. The quintuplets were born at 28 weeks and one day, on February 16.

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First Mother's Day at home with the quintuplets (Haylee Ladner)

Before Haylee returned home, the babies were being looked after by her husband Shawn, supported by their extended family.

Usually babies don't go home until their due date so to go home early was a show of how well they were doing.

She told Good Morning America she's relishing the challenge of numerous children, saying: "I know that a lot of people are probably like, 'How are you doing this? How are you not going crazy?'

Haylee Ladner of Purvis, Mississippi, cradles one of her five children (Haylee Ladner)

(Haylee Ladner)

"It's because I've wanted to have a baby my entire life and then now that I have these babies, they're my biggest blessing that I have and so I don't mind it. I don't mind the chaos."

Haylee and her husband married in September 2019 and suffered two miscarriages and went through three intrauterine insemination cycles before becoming pregnant with quintuplets.

The proud parents show off their offspring (Haylee Ladner)

She continued: "Every day that I get to spend with them and look at them, I just think about all those years I spent wanting a baby and crying and going through loss and all of those things and just wondering, 'Why isn't this happening for me?

"Why isn't this happening for me?' And then I look down at these beautiful babies and I'm like, 'You were meant to be mine.

A puddle of babies (Haylee Ladner)

"You were worth every single step that I had to take to get here and if I had to do it all over again, I would do it in a heartbeat."

The 26-year-old mum is expecting a surprise from her husband for Mother's Day. Especially after preparing to spend it in hospital.

She told the TV station: "He's probably definitely got something up his sleeves because I've told him many times, 'We don't have to do anything big.'

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One of the cute babies relaxes at home (Haylee Ladner)

The babies swaddled at their new home (Haylee Ladner)

"And he's like, 'It's your first Mother's Day. We're gonna do something."

She also shared some maternal wisdom encouraging other mum's to stay present.

"One day, they'll be grown up and have their own lives. So soak in every minute that you can," she said.

Charlie Jones