![]() ![]() Near the end of Monday’s episode of their show (the first 45 minutes spent as one excruciatingly long product placement for a playhouse company in Maine), Kate explained that she had sobbed and hyperventilated for half a day when she realized that her marriage was over. Gosselin is a registered nurse in labor and delivery at The Reading Hospital and Medical Center, where she completed nursing school.On Monday night, Jon and Kate Gosselin, the Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor of the parentally fixated new millennium, announced to a not unsuspecting world that they would be ending the 10-year marriage that resulted in a pair of twins, a set of sextuplets, “Jon & Kate Plus 8” and six consecutive covers of Us Weekly. She and her husband Jonathan Gosselin, 27, of Wyomissing, Pa., are also the parents of 3-year-old twins. Kate Gosselin, a Hershey native, also was born at Penn State Milton S. The Penn State Children's Hospital NICU serves as a referral center for nurseries and other NICU's throughout central Pennsylvania. There are six board-certified, fellowship-trained neonatologists, five nurse practitioners and a team of neonatal nurses and specialists treating the tiniest of babies in the NICU. It houses 30 licensed beds, and admits more than 500 sick neonates each year. The NICU at Penn State Children's Hospital is a Level III NICU. The Women's Health unit houses five labor, delivery and recovery (LDR) rooms, one procedure room, one cesarean room and 25 postpartum rooms. In 2003, 28 sets of twins and six sets of triplets were delivered. Approximately 1,300 babies are delivered per year at the medical center. ![]() There have been more than 29,000 deliveries at Penn State Hershey Medical Center since October 1970. Gosselin was in her 30th week when she delivered. No case of sextuplets' births in the United States has gone past 31 weeks of gestation. An infant is only considered full term at 37 weeks. All high-order multiples on record have been born before 37 weeks of gestation. ![]() In addition to more calories, more rest and more intensive prenatal care needed by the mother, the risk of extremely premature delivery is of great concern. High-order multiple pregnancies, like Gosselin's, come with risks. It is now the job of the NICU staff to continue the babies' progress." ![]() "Their excellent condition is a testament to Kate Gosselin's resolve and the expert care of our obstetrical staff. "All six babies are off to the best possible start and appear stable in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)," stated Dennis Mujsce, medical director of the NICU at Penn State Children's Hospital. "It was gratifying for the care team to see all of the time spent planning resulted in such a safely orchestrated process, allowing for the Gosselin sextuplets to get off to a tremendous start, and for Kate to come through her cesarean section in excellent condition." Repke, chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. "The entire family is doing very well, at this time," stated John T. "The delivery of the babies was handled as planned," stated John Joseph Botti, Gosselin's obstetrician and chief of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Penn State Milton S. The team of more than 75, included six color-coded, letter-coded resuscitation teams, one for each baby, delivered the babies. The care team of Penn State Women's Health obstetricians, Penn State Children's Hospital neonatologists and Penn State nursing welcomed the first set of sextuplets in the Medical Center's 34-year history. The last of the Gosselin sextuplets, Joel Kevin, weighing 2 pounds, 9.7 ounces, measuring 15.4 inches long, was born at 7:54 a.m. The third girl, Leah Hope, was born weighing 2 pounds, 14.8 ounces, measuring 15.4 inches long. The first boy, Aaden Jonathan, was born weighing 2 pounds, 7.5 ounces, measuring 13 inches long, followed by Collin Thomas weighing 3 pounds. Alexis Faith was born first weighing 2 pounds, 11.5 ounces, measuring 15 inches long, followed by Hannah Joy weighing 2 pounds, 11 ounces, measuring 13.8 inches long. At 7:51 a.m., Gosselin delivered the first of her six babies at Penn State Milton S. Just before 8 this morning (May 10), Kate Gosselin, 29, gave birth to what is believed to be only the second set of sextuplets born in Pennsylvania. Second set of sextuplets in Pennsylvania delivered at Penn State Hershey Medical Center ![]()
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