Test Tube Proves Fruitful for Couple
When David and Luz Barragan turned to in vitro fertilization five years into a childless marriage, they had no idea it would come to this.
On Wednesday, the Guadalajara, Mexico, couple became the proud parents of a set of healthy quadruplets. Luz Adriana, Citali, Diego and David were born at 9:30 p.m. at UC San Diego Medical Center, according to a hospital spokeswoman. The newborns’ weights ranged from 3 pounds to 3 pounds, 10.5 ounces.
“I am very happy and relieved because there was a lot of risk,” David Barragan said Thursday. “Now the worries are about fatherhood.”
But these days, the risks associated with such a pregnancy are minimal, said Dr. Thomas Moore, director of the center’s perinatal division.
The odds of bearing quadruplets, normally 1 in 10,000, increase with the use of in vitro, or test tube, fertilization, Moore said.
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