Dilley Sextuplets

Brenna, Julian, Quinn, Claire, Ian, and AdrianMay 25, 1993Indiannapolis, IndianaThe four boys and two girls were born healthy at nearly 31 weeks. They remained hospitalized for about three months.Parents Keith and Becki Dilley were high school sweethearts. After battling infertility for five years, Becki took a powerful drug called Perganol and conceived sextuplets. Throughout the pregnancy, they thought that there were only five babies; the sixth was discovered at delivery.The Dilley's were the first set of surviving sextuplets born in the United States.There are two books about the Dilley family: a children's book called Sixty Fingers, Sixty Toes (compare prices) and Special Delivery (compare prices). They have also been featured on Primetime Live with frequent updates over the years. An ABC-TV movie called Half a Dozen Babies was aired in 1999.