Sextuplet parents: Support from family and friends is vital

by Lisa Smyth & Adrian Rutherford ©belfasttelegraph.co.uk
The mothers of two of the UK’s best known multiple births have urged friends and family to rally to the aid of Austin and Nuala Conway as they adjust to life as the parents of Northern Ireland’s first sextuplets.
Jan Walton, from Liverpool, who had sextuplets 25 years ago, and Co Tyrone’s Rhonda Loughran, mum to quintuplets, both sent messages of goodwill to the Conways as they spoke of the importance of community help when coping with such a rapid expansion to the family.
Prayers of thanks have been offered for Ireland’s first-ever sextuplets as the tiny babies fight for life. The four girls and two boys, born 14 weeks early, remain in intensive care at Belfast’s Royal Victoria Hospital but are said to be doing well. The infants weighed between 1lb 7oz and 2lb 2oz and were born within a five-minute period at the Royal Jubilee Maternity Unit on Friday morning.
Speaking to the Belfast Telegraph, Jan Walton — who gave birth to six baby girls in 1983 — said the days following the delivery of her daughters was an extremely anxious time.
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