Whatever Happened to the McCaughey Septuplets? They’re All Grown Up Now…

The McCaughey septuplets were the first surviving septuplets – that’s 7 kids at once. They were born in 1997 and last November they all turned 21. How are they doing now?

Let’s check in and see how they’re doing growing into adulthood…

A Small Family

Kenny and Bobbi McCaughey were already proud parents before they had their septuplets. They welcomed a daughter, Mikayla, on January 3, 1996.

They wanted to add more to their family, maybe another son or daughter or two but they had no idea what was in store for them next.

Second Pregnancy Surprise

For the second pregnancy, Bobbi was advised to take fertility medicine to stimulate her ovulation. After getting pregnant, thanks to the medicine, Bobby headed to her routine checkup and received some crazy news she wasn’t expecting to get, she wasn’t going to have just one more baby…

More the Merrier

She was having seven of them! Or at least she was told that there were seven embryos rapidly growing inside of her.

 With fertilization medicine, it is common for women to have multiple embryos and some don’t continue to full term but it is highly rare for them to have seven AND for all the embryos to become babies!

Raising Seven Babies

Raising seven babies and one toddler was quite the handful and they ran through supplies very quickly! The couple was going through 52 diapers each day and the babies were drinking 42 bottles each day.