Apr 19, 2008 7:29 am US/Eastern
Md. Woman Gives Birth To Quadruplets, 3 Identical
TOWSON, Md. (WJZ) ―
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A 32-year-old mother from Belcamp gave birth to quadruplets -- and three of the four boys are identical.
A Harford County couple welcomed four new babies into their family, and three of the quadruplets are identical.
Mike Schuh reports four living medical rarities and their parents were unveiled Friday in Towson.
The Prelich quadruplets were at GBMC Friday for doctor appointments. Their parents, Amanda and Joshua, took the opportunity to show them off.
Born in January, the boys were born 11 weeks premature, but the two- month-old boys are all healthy and doing well.
Joshua Drew, Gavin Michael, Cody Benjamin are identical. Logan Christopher is a fraternal twin to his other identical brothers.
The boys were delivered by Caesarian section shortly before noon on Jan. 29, which happened to be their mother's 32nd birthday. The were all born within a five-minute span. Logan Christopher was born last.
"Well, for us, we have no previous experience raising kids...for us it's no big deal," said father Joshua Prelich.
Right now, they are getting through 32 bottles and 32 diapers a day.
They've knocked down a wall between rooms in their townhome, bought a new minivan and also purchased a new washer and dryer.
There are fewer than 100 documented cases of "identical triplets plus one" in the United States, hospital officials said.
Even without the extra baby, identical triplets are rare, although how rare is difficult to say. Multiple births, however, are more common since the advent of fertility drugs and in vitro fertilization, which was used to conceive the children born at GBMC.
In this case, two embryos were implanted, and both were fertilized. One split, then split again, creating the identical triplets.
Joshua works as a radiographic technologist at the hospital, and Amanda was previously employed there in a similar job.
The Prelichs, who live in Belcamp in Harford County, said they waited to speak to reporters because they wanted to make sure their boys were healthy. All four have been home for about 2 1/2 weeks.
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