Quadruplet mom gives birth to quintuplets: ‘I don’t know how I got so lucky’

A Texas woman is making headlines after giving birth to quintuplets without the aid of any fertility treatments. Remarkably, the mother herself is a quadruplet.

Key Takeaways:

• Theresa Troia gave birth to quintuplets on June 3.

• Multiples run in Troia’s family — she is a quadruplet.

• Troia received pressure from friends, family, and even doctors to abort some of the babies during her pregnancy, but she refused.

The Details:

Theresa Troia, 36, gave birth to her five children — Kyla Rose, Joseph Anthony, Jaxon Thomas, Viviana Lily, and Isabella Gianna — at Las Palmas Medical Center in El Paso, Texas, on June 3. The odds of naturally conceiving quintuplets, as Troia reportedly did, are incredibly rare — just one in 55 million.

“It’s surreal, scary at the same time, because it’s zero to five, immediate,” Troia, who is a single mom, told ABC News. “It’s an instant family, but it’s beautiful.”

She described having a “great” pregnancy before giving birth to the babies at 28 weeks.

“I didn’t have any nausea, vomiting, cravings, anything like that. I didn’t have any swelling. So I was really lucky,” she said.

Pressured to Abort

Despite that, she told KVIA that things weren’t all smooth sailing, as she faced pressure to abort once doctors learned she was carrying five babies. That pressure — which came from friends, family, and medical professionals — even forced her to find a new doctor when her original OB/GYN refused to treat her.

“I got a lot of comments that I should think about reducing,” she recalled. “The risks of actually having them all… even my provider didn’t agree with keeping five. They dropped me.”

Dr. Aaron Poole, an OB-GYN and maternal-fetal medicine specialist with HCA Healthcare’s Las Palmas Del Sol Healthcare, said that Troia’s children were the first quintuplets to ever be born at the hospital.

Poole advocated for Troia after her previous physician refused to help her.

“For me, it’s always really important to be an advocate for the patient,” Dr. Poole said. “With teamwork, medication, and close observation, I believed we could get to the finish line and have five healthy babies.”

“I always feel like too that God has a place in what happens,” he added. “So I think in just doing my best and seeing what can happen with that.”

A Generational Blessing

Though she is now raising five babies, Troia is no stranger to multiples; a quadruplet herself, she grew up alongside her brothers Joseph, Matthew, and Thomas.

“To me, the normal is multiples, you know, because I don’t obviously know any different, but it was nice growing up and always having a sibling there,” she explained.

She also noted that she now feels a special connection to her mother, who has passed away. Raising multiples gives her a first-hand look at what her mother must have experienced in raising her and her brothers.

“My mom passed away 10 years ago, so I haven’t been able, you know, I can’t talk to her about it, but now, I get to see what it was for her, which I think is a beautiful thing,” said Troia.

The Bottom Line:

Three of the babies have since been discharged from the NICU, while two are still receiving care. Troia says that they all are doing well.

“They’re all doing great and they’re all growing,” she said. “You would never know that they were premature babies or quintuplets, because they’re doing so, so good. They’re so healthy.”

“When I look at my five little miracles… every tear, every fear, every moment — it was all worth it,” she told PEOPLE. “I still don’t know how I got so lucky.”

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