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The Dilley sextuplets (born May 25, 1993) are a set of sextuplets born to Becki and Keith Dilley in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. They are, in birth order;

• Brenna Rose
• Julian Emerson
• Quinn Everett
• Claire Diane
• Ian Michael
• Adrian Reed

Biography

The siblings were the first surviving sextuplets to be born in the United States. All but one of the babies were able to go home after a little while; Julian suffered a congenital hernia,but eventually recovered following an operation.

The parents of the sextuplets, Becki and Keith Dilley, met as co-workers at Wendy's restaurant in Indiana. They married and attempted to conceive for a year without results. Following consultation with a doctor, they were told they had little chance of conceiving naturally. Following several more years of trying to conceive, they underwent fertility treatment using the drug Pergonal. The sextuplets were conceived as a result of this.

Throughout the pregnancy, all ultrasounds showed five babies, and a crew hired to film the delivery shut off the camera after the fifth baby was born. The doctor reached in to retrieve the placenta and grabbed a foot instead, and said, "There's a sixth baby." Everyone initially thought she was kidding, but she wasn't, and the children themselves have said, "Adrian was hiding."

The Dilley children also enjoy dance. They have appeared on few television segments, but say that they don't want to live life "under a microscope".

The sextuplets currently attend Bellmont High School in Decatur, Indiana.

Popular culture

• An American film telling the story of the sextuplets' parents prior, and a few years after their births, called "Half a Dozen Babies" featuring Scott and Melissa Reeves was made in 1999 for ABC.
• The siblings had their Sweet 16 Birthday Cake made on Food Network Challenge: Last Cake Standing. The winning cake was designed by Mary Maher.

Further reading

• Special Delivery: How We Are Raising America's Only Sextuplets...and Loving It, by Barbara M Dille, Becki Dilley, Sam Stall. Publisher: Random House, Date Published: 1995, ISBN 0-679-43706-1

• Sixty Fingers, Sixty Toes: See How the Dilley Sextuplets Grow, by Becki Dilley, Keith Dilley, E. Anthony Valainis. Publisher: Walker & Company, Date Published: 1997, ISBN 0-8027-8614-6.