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Cedar Park quintuplets born

10:25 AM CDT on Wednesday, August 1, 2007

KVUE.com

A Cedar Park family welcomed five new babies into the world Tuesday morning.

Rachelle Wilkinson, 31, delivered her quintuplets during a Caesarian section at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, a leading hospital for multi-birth pregnancies.

"We're so incredibly blessed," said Wilkinson. "The babies were born so fast, and they were perfect. They were beautiful. It's still hard to believe all those babies were inside of me."

The three girls and two boys weighed from 3 pounds, 6 ounces to 5 pounds 1.2 ounces, after the 34-week pregnancy, according to hospital officials.

"Overall, we had bigger babies. And that feels great," said father Jayson Wilkinson. "Regardless of any record, it just feels great to have just big babies, healthy babies."

The babies had a total birth weight of 21 pounds, 7.2 ounces, according to Dr. John Elliott, Wilkinson's perinatologist, who also said that was a record in the U.S. for quintuplets.

The Wilkinsons say they will name the babies Kadence, Kassidy and Kyndall for the girls and Rustin and Ryder for the boys, but they will not match names to the babies until they spend more time with them.

The Wilkinsons already have a 6-year-old son and 4-year-old daughter.

Hospital officials planned a news conference with the parents on Wednesday.

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