Sunday marks the sixth birthday for five young folks who are well-known in the world of fertility treatment. The Powell Quintuplets (made up of two boys and three girls) are celebrating their collective birthday together this Sunday October 28th. According to a report in The Courier-Journal, there’s been some extensive debate amongst the hectic household about whether the ensuing celebration party is going to be themed around princesses or pirates. Seeing as how the quints’ birthday falls so close to Halloween, there’s no reason that the kids can’t all have their way.
Does the idea of having five children at one time scare you away from fertility treatments? Never fear. Multiple births were common for awhile. When the Powell Quintuplets were born, they got a significant amount of celebrity fanfare and media attention. The focus was on the fertility treatments that had led to the birth of so many kids all at once. And the flipside of that focus was watching the parents of these multiple birth children figure out how to raise five kids of the same age all at once. It put the issue of infertility in the spotlight.
But six years later, the Powells seem to be managing just fine, considering that it’s never easy to raise five kids in any household. And fertility treatments have changed in that short period of time as well. It is much less common these days for multiple births, particularly as high in number as five, to be the result of fertility treatments. Although the Powells are surely lucky to have a such a great, big, energetic and thriving family, most people don’t want to sign on for that. Changes in fertility technology have made it so that parents can look forward to pregnancy without as much fear of becoming multiple birth parents. Working with an infertility specialist can help you find out what your options are.
Happy Birthday Powell Family!!
