Two Sets of Quintuplets Born in Two Days

Three newborn girls and two baby boys born to a Nevada mother nearly doubled the size of her six-person family when they were born Friday Sept. 6, a day after another set of quintuplets were born in Michigan.

The younger quintuplets and their 33-year-old mother are doing well, the Las Vegas Sun reported after the hospital made news of the birth public.

Deon Derrico, the quintuplets' father and husband of the babies' mother, Evonne Derrico, told the Las Vegas Sun that he is "humbled" and "honored" by the birth of his five new children.

The family is from Las Vegas, but temporarily relocated to Mesa, Ariz. so that the children could be born at Banner Desert Medical Center, where Dr. John Elliott, a perinatologist and multiple-birth specialist, is based.

In the past year, four other out-of-state sets of quintuplets have been delivered at the center.

After a 32-week and two day pregnancy, Evonne Derrico went into labor, delivering all five of the babies within five minutes of one another, Banner Desert medical said in a statement, adding that the national average for quintuplet gestation is 28 weeks. Derrico relocated to Arizona during her 22nd week after their Las Vegas doctor referred them to Dr. Elliot. They plan on moving back to Las Vegas after Evonne and the babies are discharged from the hospital.

However they will need a bigger car.

"We have a vehicle for the family right now, but we don't have a vehicle for the five others," Deon Derrico, who works as a field property manager, told the Las Vegas Sun. "There's just so much to figure out."

The Derrico's family also includes a 7-year old daughter, a 3-year-old son and a set of 1-year-old twins.

Banner Desert Medical Center reported the family has a tradition of first names starting with the letter "D." The quintuplets were named as they were born:

• Deniko, a boy, 2 lb., 6 oz., 11:17 a.m.
• Dariz, a boy, 2 lb., 15 oz., 11:18 a.m.
• Deonee, a girl, 2 lb., 6 oz., 11:19 a.m.
• Daician, a girl, 2 lb., 9 oz., 11:20 a.m.
• Daiten, a girl, 1 lb., 14 oz., 11:21 a.m.

A day before the Derrico quintuplets were born, a Michigan mother gave birth to her own set of five. Jessica Hicks, 28, gave birth to three boys and two girls.

Out of the 4 million births in the US each year, approximately 40 sets of quintuplets -- 200 babies -- are born each year, Dr. Cosmas Vandeven, director of Maternal Fetal Medicine at University of Michigan Women's Hospital, told the Michigan news outlet MLive.

"It's very rare," Vandeven said, adding that there is a 0.005 percent chance of having quintuplets.