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with big brother Dewayne

Christopher & Diamond's

Six Bundles of Joy

Alabama's

"Harris Sextuplets"

July 7, 2002

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July 8, 2002

July 10, 2002

Six New Beginnings

From the UAB Website: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) � Sextuplets born three months premature are growing stronger each day and all six are breathing on their own, a doctor said.

The babies � four boys and two girls � were in serious condition in intensive care but have been taken off ventilator support without many complications, Dr. Namasivayam Ambalavanan said on Tuesday. The babies were born after 26 1/2 weeks; a full-term pregnancy is typically about 40 weeks.

Diamond Harris, a 27-year-old nurse, gave birth to all six children within three minutes of each other on Sunday. They weighed between 1 pound, 3 ounces and 1 pound, 12 ounces.

They were delivered by Caesarean section after about three hours of labor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham hospital.

Doctors still don't know how many of the children are identical twins and how many are fraternal twins. The babies can't yet be held, but doctors have encouraged the parents to stroke or gently touch them.

Harris said she had been undergoing fertility treatment, though there have been twins in both her family and that of her husband, Christopher. The couple also has a 7-year-old boy, Dewayne.

``All he wants to know is how many Pampers he has to change,'' said Christopher Harris, 28, a third-grade teacher.

Sextuplets are rare. When a Kansas woman gave birth to sextuplets in April, doctors in Wichita said only 96 sets of sextuplets have been born worldwide since recording began in the early 1900s.

All the Harris babies have names beginning with the letter K, after their great-grandmother, Kassie Harris. Their names are Kiera Christine, Kaylynne Antoinett, Kaleb Reddrick, Kobe Byshari, Kieran Anthony and Kyle Jacob.

``I feel good. A little bit sore, but good,'' Diamond Harris said. ``We weren't expecting a bundle.''

Kiera

Kaylynne

Kaleb

Kobe

Kieran

Home Comings

In Three's, In Two's and in singlets the Harris Sextuplets made their way home to centerpoint Ala. from Birmingham, Ala.'s UAB hospital. Each home going was greeted with much joy and elation.