Doctors were unsure if they were going to make it past their first few days, but now the McCaughey septuplets are celebrating turning 16 – and planning driving lessons, college degrees and careers.
Kenny, Kelsey, Natalie, Brandon, Alexis, Nathan and Joel, the world’s first septuplets to survive infancy, are marking the milestone on Tuesday, November 19 at their home in Carlisle, Iowa.
‘It’s sad how quickly it’s gone,’ their mother Bobbi told a local newspaper of the past 16 years.
Bobbi and her husband Kenny famously declined selective reduction after learning they were pregnant with seven children following fertility treatment, saying it was ‘in God’s hands’.
