JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – A year after their birth at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) in Jackson, the Ladner quintuplets are thriving. They celebrated their first birthday after an exciting year of firsts.

The Ladner family grew from two to seven February 16, 2023, when Haylee and Shawn welcomed the birth of quintuplets at Wiser Hospital for Women and Infants at UMMC.

The parents welcomed identical females Adalyn Elizabeth, Everleigh Rose, Malley Kate and Magnolia Mae, along with male Jake Easton.

The babies were born at weights ranging from 2 pounds, 5 ounces to 1 pound, 11 ounces.

UMMC staff said about three years into their marriage, the couple wanted to start a family. After Haylee had problems conceiving and experienced a miscarriage, they tried intrauterine insemination, or IUI. One of the fertilized eggs divided four ways, resulting in identical quadruplet girls, and the other egg was their brother.

Hospital staff said the Ladner quintuplets are thought to be the highest number of multiple babies born at UMMC since the quadruplets of Craig and Kimberly Fugate were born at UMMC in 2014.