Mom, five newborns fine after Caesarean section

ST. LOUIS – It took just 20 minutes for Pete and Jenny Ferrill's family to nearly triple in size Thursday afternoon, with the long-awaited birth of their quintuplets.

At 2 p.m. Thursday in a St. Louis hospital, Jenny Ferrill of Danville underwent a Caesarean section, and at 2:20 p.m. three boys and two girls – none identical – entered the world.

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