Woman gives birth to quintuplets in just TWO minutes

A Perth mum has given birth to quintuplets - one boy and four girls - in just two minutes. 

Kim Tucci, 26, announced on Friday that she and her husband Vaughn Tucci have welcomed five new children to their growing brood - a son, Keith, and four daughters - Ali, Penelope, Tiffany and Beatrix, according to Woman's Day. 

She was just 30 weeks along when she went into labour at King Edward Memorial Hospital.

Mrs Tucci, who has a nine-year-old son from a previous marriage and two daughters with her husband Vaughn, fell naturally pregnant with quintuplets while trying for a boy with her husband and has been documenting the highs and lows of her pregnancy since receiving the news. 

Mrs Tucci wrote about her struggles with back pain, 12 bathroom trips a night and consuming the recommended 6,000 calories a day to feed her five babies.   

‘I'm struggling to eat and force feed myself leaving me with reflux for hours,’ she wrote on her blog Surprised With Five.

‘I can't tolerate a lot of dairy and I can't keep protein drinks down, I'm starting to lose weight when I really need to be gaining it.’ 

Her online posts about dealing with pain, nausea, changes to her body and going to the bathroom 12 times a night, has amassed a following of more than 123,000 people – most of them mums who share their own personal stories.

‘It's getting harder as each day passes to push through the pain, every part of my body aches and sleeping is becoming very painful,’ she said.

‘No amount of pillows are helping support my back and belly. Sometime I get so upset that I just want to throw my hands up and give in!’

Mrs Tucci and her husband began trying for their third and final child together last year with the hope of having a son to complete their family.

After finding out in July that Mrs Tucci was pregnant, the couple was ecstatic to be told by their doctor that they were having twins.

'I WAS SO EXCITED!! TWINS!!! I was excited at the possibility of twins but absolutely nothing on this earth could have prepared me for what happened next,’ Mrs Tucci said.

When she asked to use another sonogram machine so she could have a clearer view of the babies, her world was turned upside-down when the doctor found five separate heart beats.

'My legs start [sic] to shake uncontrollably and all I can do is laugh.. The sonographer then told me the term for 5 is QUINTUPLETS!!' she continued.

'I called my husband from the ultrasound room but I don't think he believed me at first. He quickly drove down. I could see the excitement in his face he told me " We can do this".'

Mrs Tucci said it has started to kick in what a big change this will be for her family.

‘I have only just really embraced this pregnancy and what it will mean for my family, the last few days has been a reality check that it's all really happening!’

‘It's hard to accept life will change forever and my small family will be HUGE all in one hit,’ she said. 

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