The sextuplets who were born in Plaza de la Salud hospital in Santo Domingo three years ago have already started pre-school and this year they took a Christmas break and visited their grandmother in Cotui.<\/p>\n
Emeli Mariel, Paola Esther, Nerey Kiara, Hugo Nicolas, Manuel Emilio and Emilio Jose are causing merry chaos at Teofila Aquino’s house in Cotui.<\/p>\n
The six were born on 26 December 2005. Their parents, Maxima Perez and Emilio Figueroa, work in the informal sector.<\/p>\n
The pair have another child, Fiordy, now eight.<\/p>\n
With the exception of Emeli Mariel, the other five children are all healthy and eat well. One of their caregivers says “they eat everything, they ask for rice and do not accept lunch if it doesn’t include meat.”<\/p>\n
The little ones are playful and fight over toys, while Emeli watches them and smiles with her mouth open. Five of the six attend a parochial day care center in El Almendro, where they stay from 8 in the morning until 5 in the afternoon.<\/p>\n
They talk, run, and ask for food all the time, and even wake the neighbors at 6:30 in the morning.<\/p>\n
The sextuplets were born after their mother took fertility drugs and were delivered by C-Section under the guidance of a team of highly trained physicians at the Plaza de la Salud where they received all their medical care.<\/p>\n
Currently the sextuplets just have the RD$15,000 that the Ministry of Public Health sends them because the RD$20,000 payment that was being sent by the Ministry of Education under former minister Alejandrina German has been stopped.<\/p>\n
According to El Caribe, the sextuplets no longer receive gifts from private individuals, and their RD$100,000 monthly bill has all but de-capitalized the small family business of beauty care products. Their parents have asked for a small business loan to recapitalize the business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The sextuplets who were born in Plaza de la Salud hospital in Santo Domingo three years ago have already started pre-school and this year they took a Christmas break and visited their grandmother in Cotui. Emeli Mariel, Paola Esther, Nerey Kiara, Hugo Nicolas, Manuel Emilio and Emilio Jose are causing merry chaos at Teofila Aquino’s … <\/p>\n