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Quints' father returns home to prepare for babies

06:39 PM CDT on Monday, August 20, 2007

By ERIN OCHOA
KVUE News

Nearly 20 days after they were born, a record-setting set of quintuplets is finally out of the hospital. The babies were born to a Cedar Park couple in a Phoenix hospital earlier this month. This weekend, the babies' father returned to Texas, along with the couple's two older children, to prepare for the quintuplets' homecoming.

Kassidy, Kaydence, Rustin, Kyndall and Ryder were born August 1. Kassidy, the last of the five to be released from the hospital, went home Sunday.

“They went home in the opposite order of their birth order so the last was first and the first was last,” said Jayson Wilkinson, the quintuplets' father.

All five are at a relative's house in Phoenix, near the hospital where they were born. In about two weeks, they’ll come home to Cedar Park. Here to welcome them home is their father, Jayson, along with their older siblings, Riley and Kaiya. They returned to Cedar Park this weekend, only to find friends and family had redesigned two rooms into a nursery to make things a little easier for the family of nine.

Each crib is color-coded for each baby. Each baby has a very different personality.

“The one that came home first is Ryder and he's going pretty well, he kind of screams a little bit at night. Kyndall is just a sweet little girl, not real fussy,” said Wilkinson. “I was expecting it to be really hard and it wasn't as hard as i thought it was going to be. It's still really hard."

Jayson says he and his wife, Rachelle, must keep a strict schedule.

“Every three hours, we would wake up, she would feed one and I would feed another one and then we would put them down, feed the next two, and then go back to sleep for an hour or so and then go through that same process again,” said Wilkinson.

Since the babies' births, the Wilkinson family has had an outpouring of support.

“I feel so incredibly blessed,” said Wilkinson.

Jayson Wilkinson says his employer, National Instruments, has offered to buy the family a new 12-passenger van and to pay for their plane tickets home. His wife, Rachelle, and the babies are due home in about two weeks.

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