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The Headrick Sextuplets are now 10 years old. From left: Ethan, Melissa, Grant, Sean, Jaycie and Danielle They were born on April 6, 2002 at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Wichita. (April 2, 2012)
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The Headrick sextuplets play in the backyard of their home in Norwich recently. (April 2, 2012)
Danielle Headrick. (April 2, 2012)
Ethan Headrick. (April 2, 2012)
Sean Headrick. (April 2, 2012)
Jaycie Headrick. (April 2, 2012)
Melissa Headrick. (April 2, 2012)
Grant Headrick. (April 2, 2012)
The Headrick sextuplets at age 7. From left: Ethan, Melissa, Grant, Sean, Jaycie and Danielle.
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The Headrick sextuplets enjoy dinner before heading out to ball practice from their new home in Norwich.
Sondra Headrick is reflected in a computer monitor during a sonogram a week ago. Headrick reached her 26th week of her sextuplet pregnancy this week and still has had no major complications.
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Ethan Headrick fusses in a chair while his mother Sondra attends to one of the other children while watching "A Baby Story" on TV. The Headrick living room is the central command center of their home while trying to raise six infants.
Sondra and Eldon Headrick of Rago, Kan. take daughters Danielle and Jaycie home from Via Christi St. Joseph Hospital Monday, the last two sextuplet babies born Apr. 6. Nursing staff and a volunteer carry the other four babies.
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Ethan Roy Headrick drinks from a bottle in the NICU at Via Christi Regional Medical Center-St. Joseph Campus Friday. All of the Headrick sextuplets are doing well still at three weeks old.
Sondra Headrick looks over her six babies in a crib at the NICU at Via-Christi Regional Medical Center-St. Joseph Campus Tuesday. At the one-month mark, all of the Headrick sextuplets are progressing as expect, according to Dr. Katherine Schooley, Medical Director for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unitl at St. Joseph.
Sondra Headrick, right, along with her daughter Aubrianna and husband Eldon, appear at a press conference Tuesday, January 29, 2002 at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Wichita, Ks. Headrick is 21 weeks pregnant with sextuplets.
Sondra Headrick warms up a bottle while holding her son Grant Thursday at her home in Rago. Having half of her sextuplets home for one week now has proven to be a test to patience for Sondra and her husband Eldon.
Aubrianna Headrick listens to her mother's belly after in her room Wednesday afternoon. Sondra Headrick entered her 27th week of pregnancy Friday with no major complications.
Sondra Headrick does the dishes by hand at their home in Rago. For a family of nine, six of those being infants, the chore is demanding.
Sondra and Eldon Headrick of Rago, Kan. take daughters Danielle and Jaycie home from Via Christi St. Joseph Hospital Monday. They are the last two sextuplet babies born Apr. 6 to leave the hospital. Nursing staff and a volunteer carry the other four babies.
Sondra Headrick holds her son Ethan in the NICU at Via Christi Regional Medical Center - St. Joseph Campus on Friday.
Sondra Headrick helps her daugher, Aubrianna, cut cake during a shower given for residents of the Gerard House.
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Staff members from St. Joseph Hospital, many of whom work with Sondra Headrick on a regular basis, listen to her press conference Tuesday afternoon on the fourth floor of the hospital Tuesday.
Sondra Headrick checks to see how much milk remains in a bottle she was feeding to Grant, left, Thursday afternoon. With feedings every three hours for her three sons, Sondra has to make 24 bottles of breatmild and formula a day. That number will double when the other half of her children come home from the hospital.
Eldon Headrick takes pictures of his wife Sondra during a sonogram Friday afternoon. Sondra's sextuplets are all at or near three pounds going into the 30th week of gestation.
A trip to the Kansas State Fair last month was a very slow-moving process for the Headrick family. Dozens of fair-goers stopped to admire the Headrick babies.
Sondra and Eldon Headrick of Rago, Kan. dress daughters Danielle, left, and Jaycie for the trip home from Via Christi St. Joseph Hospital Monday. They are the last two sextuplet babies born Apr. 6 to leave the hospital.
Sondra walks out of the St. Joseph Regional Medical Center with three of her sextuplet children for the first time.
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Sondra Headrick cringes while getting a shot in her hospital room Friday. The shot increases her red blood cell count to better carry oxygen and nutrients in her blood. Travis Heying photo
Eldon Headrick puts shoes on his son Grant as Sondra Headrick tends to the hair of her daughter Danielle in an assembly like fashion that included shirts, shorts, shoes, and hair at their home near Rago, Kan., prior to heading to the first day of kindergarten for the sextuplets Thursday, Aug. 16, 2007.
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While daughter Aubrianna holds open the door to the NICU, her mother Sondra walks out the door with daughter Melissa in her left arm. Melissa is the fourth of the Headrick sextuplets to be released from Via-Christi Regional Medical Center-St. Joseph Campus. She joins brothers Grant, Sean and Ethan at home if Rago. Sondra hopes that the Daneille and Jaycie can head for home in the next couple weeks.
Sondra Headrick touches out to touch her newborn son Sean a few hours after he and his five siblings were born.
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It's one nurse per baby during a check-up at Dr. Barbara Coats office last summers. The Headrick sextuplets are in fine health at six-months-old.
Jaycie Linette Headrick.
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Sondra Headrick walks up the stairs to her home with her son Ethan in one hand and four-year-old daughter Aubrianna in the the other. The first half of the Headrick sextuplets headed home to Rago Sunday. The three girls are expected to go home in a week or two.
Sondra Headrick flips through the pages of a baby name book Wednesday afternoon in her hospital room. Sondra and Eldon are having a hard time making a decision on what to name the three boys and three girl she is carrying.
Eldon Headrick cares for three of this infant children, Ethan, left, Grant, middle and Melissa with some help from four-year-old daughter Aubrianna. The Headrick sextuplets will have a reunion at Via Christi Regional Medical Center-St. Joseph Campus Thursday.
Sondra Headrick takes a question from members of the media during a press conference at Via-Christi Regional Medical Center-St. Joseph Campus Tuesday afternoon. Her four-year-old daughter Aubrianna shows little interest in the network cameras.
The Headrick sextuplets at six-months old.
Melissa Sue Headrick.
Eldon Headrick kisses his son Grant Douglas on the forehead before putting him down for more rest Friday night in the NICU at Via-Christi Regional Medical Center- St. Joseph Campus.
The Headrick family take a stroll around the hallways of St. Joseph Regional Medical Center during Sondra's first week of hospitalization. During the whole first month of Sondra's stay, she left her room no more than five times.
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The Headrick sextuplets line up for a four-month birthday shot recently. From left: Ethan, Melissa, Grant, Sean, Jaycie and Danielle.
With daughter Aubrianna taking a quick nap, Sondra and Eldon Headrick get ready to walk through the doors and into the view of the national media gathered at St. Joesph hospital Tuesday eveing. This was the first trip before the camera's since Sondra gave birth to Sextuplets Saturday afternoon.
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Grant Headrick stares out the window while parked in front of the Rockefeller Center Thursday night in New York City. The Headrick sextuplets flew to New York to tape a segment of "The John Walsh Show."
Eldon, left, and Sondra Headrick, along with their four-year-old daughter Aubrianna, appear at a press conference at Via-Christi Regional Medical Center - St. Joseph Campus in Wichita, Ks., April 9, 2002. This was the Headricks first appearance before television cameras since Sondra delivered sextuplets three days ago.
Sondra Headrick coaxes Sean Edward after he was weighed Friday night in the NICU at Via-Christi Regional Medical Center - St. Joseph Campus.
Sondra Headrick waits while an orderly mops her room last week. Despite having staff at the hospital to wait on her every need, Sondra still likes to maker her own bed and iron her own clothes.
Dr. Barbara Coats looks into Danielle's ear during a recent checkup. All six of the Headrick sextuplets are around 10 pounds.
Sondra and Eldon Headrick leave the fourth floor of St. Joseph hospital Wednesday for the trip home to Rago. Sondra Headrick checked out of Via Christi Regional Medical Center-St. Joseph Campus after 100 days of hospitalization.
Television personality John Walsh kisses Ethan Headrick on the head while posing for pictures with the Headrick family after a taping of "The John Walsh Show," Friday in New York City.
he Headrick sextuplets are seen in their Rago, Kan. home March 25, 2003. The siblings shown from left; Ethan, Melissa, Grant, Sean, Jaycie and Danielle were born the day after a set of quadruplets were delivered nearly a year ago in Wichita. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Sondra Headrick feeds her son Grant early Saturday morning after a long night in the NICU. The Headricks were required to spend an entire night with their boys before taking Sean and Ethan home on Sunday.
Grant lets out a yawn while lying on a scale in the NICU at Via Christi Regional Medical Center - St. Joseph Campus. By Sunday afternoon, Grant will the lone Headrick boy still left in the Neonatal Unit. His brothers Sean and Ethan will be released that day.
Aubrianna Headrick watches as a nurse injects medicine into a pick line in her mother's arm. The pick line, a sort of permanent IV, was put in Sondra Thursday so she could more easily receive medicine and have blood drawn.
Volunteer Pauling Harvert helps Sondra Headrick bathe one of her six babies. A constant stream of volunteers come in and out of the Headrick home day and night.
Eldon and Sondra Headrick enjoy a Valentines Day dinner outside Sondra's hospital room. Eldon brought in food from home and cooked it down in the kitchen of Via Christi Regional Medical Center-St. Joseph Campus.
While Ethan Headrick sleeps, his brother Sean looks around curiously. Four of the Headrick sextuplets are now co-bedding in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Via-Christi Regional Medical Center - St. Joseph Campus.
Sonograms of the six babies that Sondra Headrick is carrying. She and her husband, Eldon, decided to carry the sextuplets to full term.
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Jaycie Headrick leads her sextuplet brothers and sisters into Norwich, Kan., Elementary School for their first day of kindergarten Thursday, Aug. 16, 2007.
Sondra Headrick feeds her son Grant, left, while Ethan lays in her lap waiting his turn Thursday at the Headrick's home in Rago. The three Headrick boys have proved to be more than a handful for Sondra and Eldon during their first week at home. Sister Melissa should join them this weekend while the other two girls won't be far behind.
Sondra Headrick looks over pictures of her babies after having a sonogram Friday morning. In her 26th week of pregnancy, the six babies have begun to show distinct characteristic while still in the womb. A computer generated picture of baby F is shown on the computer screen behind her.
Grant Headrick gets an immunization shot during a doctors visit earlier this summer.
With four-year-old Aubrianna climbing on him, and his wife reading a letter of support, Eldon Headrick works on assembling a crib in their home Wednesday. The Headrick family worked all last week converting one of the spare bedrooms in their home to a nursery in anticipation of the first two of their six babies coming home over the weekend.
Sondra Headrick holds her son Grant Douglas while her husband Eldon looks on. All six of the Headrick sextuplets are still doing well in the NICU at Via Christi Regional Medical Center, St. Joseph Campus.
Aubrianna Headrick helps feed her little sister Danielle recently in the NICU at St. Joseph. Sondra and Eldon Headrick are trying to involve Aubrianna as much as they can, just as they did during Sondra's pregnancy.
Sean Edward Headrick.
Sondra Headrick carries sons Grant and Ethan back to the nursery Thursday at their home in Rago. Having half of their sextuplets home for a week now has been a test of patience and stamina for Sondra and her husband Eldon.
Sondra Headrick helps two of her children, Melissa, right, and Ethan, middle, clean up after a meal.
Sondra Headrick and her daughter, 5-year-old Aubrianna, light Ethan's birthday cake during a birthday party for the sextuplets. Ethan was the first born. About 40 people attended the party at the Milton United Methodist Church in Suppesville where they sang "Happy Birthday" to each of the six babies and ate cake together. Most of the people are volunteers who have helped the family over the past year. Eldon Headrick addressed the group by thanking them for their help.
The Headrick sextuplets two months after they were born, from left: Ethan Roy, Melissa Sue, Grant Douglas, Sean Edward, Jaycie Lynette and Danielle Patrice.
Dr Van R. Bohman, center, talks with Sondra Headrick about her sextuplet pregnancy while her husband Eldon, left, plays with their three-year old daughter Aubrianna. Dr. Bohman is a high-risk pregnancy speacialist who will see Sondra through her pregnancy and deliver the babies when that time arrives.
Sondra Headrick, in blue, helps her sextuplets during an afternoon picnic at the family's home near Rago.
Melissa Headrick sleeps while about 40 people sing "Happy Birthday" to her at the Milton United Methodist Church in Suppesville. She woke up soon after and ate most of her cake.
Sondra Headrick reads to four of her sextuplets Wednesday at the family's home in Rago.
To feed six babies, Sondra Headrick must take in 3600 calories a day, twice the amount a person normally consumes. In addition to that, she is taking drugs that will increase the blood supply in her body from 9 pints to 18. In one particular week, a trip to the scale saw Sondra gain 11 pounds.
Ethan Headrick, left, sits down for his first-ever haircut at a Wichita salon while the rest of his sextuplet siblings wait their turn.
Sandra and Eldon Headrick watch their sextuplets feed themselves in their living room. The children were sick and spent most of that day at the doctor's office.
Sondra was hospitalized during the 17th week of her pregnancy at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Wichita. With the Headrick home 40 miles away and Eldon working long hours to support the family, the couple spent precious little time together.
Sondra Headrick reads to her six of her seven children Wednesday at the couple's home in Rago.
Sean, Ethan and Melissa Headrick watch videos on a laptop computer at their home in Norwich. (April 2, 2012)
Sondra Headrick watches a sonogram monitor while her husband Eldon kisses their three-year-old daughter Aubrianna. Headrick is currently 21 weeks pregnant with sextuplets in a Wichita hospital.
Sean Headrick, left, wears a pair of sunglasses borrowed from his big sister Aubrianna while riding in the family van. Melissa Headrick, right, rides patiently.
Dr. Van R. Bohman looks over the Headrick Sextuplets he delivered on April 6, 2002. Photo by Travis Heying/The Wichita Eagle
Most expectant mothers leave a sonogram with only a few pictures to take home and put in the scrapbook. One sonogram for Sondra, done at least twice a week, would last two hours and produce hundreds of pictures of the six fetuses inside of her.
Sondra Headrick watches her seven children in front of the family's home in Rago.
Melissa Headrick relaxes in her room that she shares with her sisters Jaycie and Danielle at the family's home in Norwich. (April 2, 2012)
Sondra Headrick is prepped for surgery before delivering healthy sextuplets on April 6, 2002.
Sean Headrick, right, is covered in pizza sauce during a recent family outing to the Pizza Hut in Kingman. Sean's eating habits are a direct contrast of his brother Grant, left, who often whips his hands with a napkin while eating.
Dr. Van R. Bohman sits and visits with his patient Sondra Headrick in her room at St. Joseph Friday. Bohman is a high risk pregnancy speacialist who moved to Wichita from Las Vegas, NV.
Melissa Sue Headrick lies in intensive care minutes after her birth. The Headrick Sextuplets were more than two months premature but suffered none of the health problems their doctors worried about.
Sondra Headrick walks through the poultry barn with her 7 children at the Sedgwick County Fair.
Five of the Headrick sextuplets, along with big sister Aubrianna relax in the family's basement at their home in Norwich. (April 2, 2012)
"We're gonna have six babies!" Aubrianna Headrick claimed as she climbed up on her mothers bed after arriving at the hospital Saturday afternoon. Aubrianna was at the Zoo with aunt when word came in that delivery would happen later that afternoon.
Some of the Headrick sextuplets take a curious glance behind them during a wagon ride down a rural road near their home in Rago.
Dr. Van R. Bohman poses with the Headrick sextuplets he delivered on April 6 at Via Christi Regional Medical Center-St. Joseph Campus in Wichtia, Ks. The Headrick sextuplets are all doing well after their first month alive.
Eldon shows the six wristbands he was required to wear to gain entry to the neo-natal intensive care unit at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center.
Melissa Headrickgets a kiss from her father Eldon Headrick. She and her other five sextuplet siblings spend time with their parents at home in Rago, Kan. on Wednesday Nov. 29, 2006.
Jaycie Headrick at the moment of her birth.
Ethan Headrick, right, takes in an oversized scoop of ice cream while sister Jaycie decides to use her hands to get at hers.
Danielle Patrice Headrick.
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Eldon and Sondra Headrick spend some time with their oldest daughter Aubrianna , on couch, and with their sextuplets at home in Rago.
Sondra Headrick watches a sonogram monitor from her hospital bed Monday afternoon. A series of contractions Monday morning led her doctor to begin giving her medication that would prevent contractions and early labor. Sondra had hoped to wait a couple more weeks before beginning such medication.
Aubrianna Headrick looks over her six brothers and sisters in the doctor's office waiting room recently.
Ethan Roy Headrick.
Sean Edward Headrick has been one of the more active sextuplets in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at St. Joseph Hospital. The Headrick Sextuplets reach one week of age Saturday.
Eldon Headrick, exhausted from a three day trip to New York City, uses his cell phone at the St. Louis aiport Saturday night. The Headrick sextuplets headed to New York City for an appearance on "The John Walsh Show."
Eldon Headrick with his daughter Danielle moments after she was born.
Sondra Headrick kisses her daughter Melissa, one of her sextuplets, goodbye after taking her picture with teacher Laura Poland on the first day of kindergarten for the sextuplets Thursday, Aug. 16, 2007, in Norwich, Kan.
Aubrianna Headrick looks curiously at her new baby brother Ethan after the first half of the Headrick babies arrived home in Rago.
Eldon Headrick kisses his wife Sondra on the forehead after she delivered healthy sextuplets on April 6, 2002.
The Headrick sextuplets are now eating fruits, cereal and different baby foods at six months.
Resident big sister, Aubrianna Headrick, right, helps Jaycie with dinner during a recent family outing to Pizza Hut. Aubrianna, 6, plays a vital role around the house by helping her parents with the sextuplets.
Grant Douglas Headrick.
Ethan Roy Headrick sleeps in the neonatal unitl of St. Joseph Hospital Friday. The Headrick sextuplets turned one week old on Saturday. Travis Heying photo
Grant Headrick, center foreground, and his brother Sean,right, hang out while their sextuplet siblings occupy themselves.
Eldon Headrick serves a plate of biscuits and gravy as Sondra Headrick dishes up another plate as their sextuplets sit down for breakfast at their home near Rago, Kan., prior to heading to their first day of kindergarten Thursday, Aug. 16, 2007.
Sandra Headrick holds her oldest daughter, 5-year-old Aubrianna, while four of the babies crawl over them.
During a visit to the doctor, 3-year-old Aubrianna Headrick, right, shows her father, Eldon, how many babies her mother, Sondra, is pregnant with. Sondra Headrick found she was pregnant with sextuplets in the fall of 2001 after undergoing a variety of fertility treatments.
Sondra Headrick with son Grant a few weeks after his birth.
The Headrick sextuplets play at Exploration Place just before their second birthday. The children, from left: Sean, Jaycie, Danielle, Melissa, Grant and Ethan.
Eldon Headrick feeds his son, Sean, while the five other babies wait for their mother to return with more food for them. The sextuplets will turn one on April 6.
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The Headrick sextuplets were presented with a birthday cake for their fifth birthday Friday night at Red Robin. The first sextuplets born in Kansas were delivered on April 6, 2002 at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Wichita. The Children are, from left: Sean, Melissa, Ethan, Grant, Danielle and Jaycie.
Sondra Headrick sits through two sonograms a week, some lasting as long as two hours. Headrick became pregnant with sextuplets after taking fertility drugs in September of 2001.
Eldon Headrick kisses his daughter and receives a hug from his mother after his wife successfully delivered sextuplets on April, 6, 2002.
Sondra Headrick puts four of her children down for naps in a room completely overtaken by cribs.
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