October 2008 Group Meeting

"Quintuplets Births and the passing away of one"

By Taunacy Horton

Thursday, October 9th at 7:00 pm


Logan Hospital Classroom 5
(Enter through the hospital front doors.
Take the elevator to the 2nd floor and turn left.
The classroom is in the hall between the Budge clinic and the hospital)

"My name is Taunacy Horton and about two months ago I moved here to Utah from Chicago with my six children. In June of 2004 I learned that I was pregnant with quintuplets and two weeks after that my husband was deployed to Iraq. My older two children were five and seven years old at the time. As you can imagine this was a very difficult time in my life.

I made it twenty-six weeks and delivered my 5 little ones on October 11, 2004. All five babies were born under two pounds but were remarkably healthy considering their odds. Just three days before the babies were delivered I was notified that my husband had been gravely injured in a mortar attack and lay in a coma in Germany. As I prayed for my husbands recovery, struggled to take care of my older two children and spend as much time as possible at the hospital with the babies.

I soon found myself dealing with the most devastating loss I could of imagined. Unexpectedly on the morning of October 30, 2004 the largest and the healthiest of the quintuplets, Addyson, passed away from an infection at nineteen days old.

While planning my daughters funeral one of the most frequent comments I would get was that I should take comfort in the fact that I had four more babies and two older children so my loss shouldn't be as hard. I hope through sharing my experience that others will understand how false this comment is.

What I want people to know most about me is that I am an ordinary person who has had to deal with exta-ordinary circumstances. I will always be the mother of quintuplets and along my journey have seen and learned that out of the deepest grief can come the greatest joys. "

 

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