Single mom who is a quadruplet gives birth to ‘rainbow’ quintuplets after losing first child

A single mother who was born a quadruplet delivered a set of premature quintuplet “rainbow babies” in Texas after the loss of her first child.

Theresa Troia, a 36-year-old nurse consultant, delivered five babies via cesarean section on June 3 at just 28 weeks of gestation.

A whole team of medical staff at the Las Palmas Medical Center flanked the mother and “had every second planned and every role ready” to support her through the delivery and months of NICU stays with the quints.

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Troia gave birth to three daughters, including Isabella and Viviana, and two boys.

Isabella and Viviana are identical monochorionic-diamniotic, or Mo-Di, twins, meaning they shared a placenta in utero but grew in amniotic sacs.

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The other three children are named Kyla, Joseph and Jaxon.

Troia didn’t undergo any fertility treatments to conceive the quints and was originally told she would be having quadruplets until one of the fetuses “[chose] to make a grand entrance by splitting into TWO,” she wrote on Facebook.

Even with the unexpected extra baby and breakup with their father, Troia insisted that the pregnancy couldn’t have been any easier.

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“I didn’t have any nausea, vomiting, cravings, anything like that. I didn’t have any swelling. So I was really lucky,” Troia told ABC News.

One of the most difficult parts of her pregnancy was not having her mother, who passed away a decade ago, by her side to provide much-needed guidance on how to carry and raise multiples, but she’s excited to “see what it was for her” to raise a small squadron.

Still, she’s confident in her ability to raise the five babies right based on her own upbringing alongside her three brothers.

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“To me, the normal is multiples, you know, because I don’t obviously know any different, but it was nice growing up and always having a sibling there,” Troia told the outlet.

It wasn’t Troia’s first pregnancy, either.

In a post celebrating the quints, Troia thanked her “first baby” for paving the way.

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“Your short life changed everything and transformed my life in ways I can’t truly express. I carry all of you — in my body, in my heart and in my soul, forever intertwined,” she wrote.

Troia celebrated her new pentad as her “rainbow babies” — a term frequently used to refer to the first child born after a miscarriage, stillborn, or infant death.

The quintuplets were the first-ever to be born in the Las Palmas Del Sol Healthcare system, which has two locations in El Paso with NICUs.

Kyla, Isabella, and Jaxon were cleared to go home last week while Joseph and Viviana continue their treatment in the NICU.

“They’re all doing great and they’re all growing. You would never know that they were premature babies or quintuplets, because they’re doing so, so good. They’re so healthy,” Troia told the outlet.