Australian mother adds twins to her two sets of quadruplets
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The Telegraph - Published: 11:32AM BST 12 Oct 2009
Dale Chalk and her husband Darren with 9 of their children
Dale Chalk, an Australian mother of two sets of quadruplets from Sydney, has now had twins.
Mrs Chalk, 31, who has undergone IVF treatment, made headlines by having quadruplets twice.
Now, she and her husband Darren, who live in Sydney, have added to their brood, and are now the proud parents of 11 children under the age of seven.
The first set of quads - two boys and two girls - were born in August 2004 and are due to start school next year.
Mrs Chalk became pregnant with her second set of quads in 2005. The babies were delivered in October of that year but only three survived.
The couple also have a six-year-old daughter and another girl born in 2007.
They are understood to have used a low-grade infertility treatment for the multiple births.
"We'd love to have more children, but medically, that's it," Mr Chalk told the Courier-Mail newspaper. "We'd have to buy a bigger bus!"
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that's not a woman, that's a clown car
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Great! A football team, 4-4-2...
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imaging having that much babies in sg sure go broke
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how people have quadraplets? i thought the sperm break through 2 eggs for twins where the other 2 come from?
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this mother is the envy of those women who have problem conceiving.
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Originally posted by dunno.com:
how people have quadraplets? i thought the sperm break through 2 eggs for twins where the other 2 come from?
Hi dunno,
Since Mrs Dale used IVF treatment, I believe that she has 4 fertilised eggs implanted into her uterus twice to have two sets of quadruplets.
On the other hand, for those who conceived naturally, it is possible for an egg to split into 4 separate cells after being fertilised to result in a set of quadruplets.
Cheers.