Haylee Ladner is expecting her sixth child in July.Photo:UMMC Photography
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The Ladner quintuplets just turned 1, and they’re getting a new sibling as a birthday gift!
“We weren’t trying, and I was on birth control,” Mississippi mom Haylee Ladner toldTodayabout the unexpected news that she and her husband, Shawn, are expecting a girl, due to arrive in July.
But the mom of five said she may have forgotten to take a pill during the “chaos” that was their December when three of the quintuplets were hospitalized for pneumonia.
“I was sure it would be negative,” Haylee said, referring to the pregnancy test she took soon afterward.
The Ladner quintuplets were born last February.UMMC Photography
With Jake about to take his first steps any minute and the girls crawling up a storm, the Ladners were too busy to accept the good news — at first,Todayreported.
“For one thing, I was really, really tired, but I assumed it was just because I have five kids! Of course I’m tired,” Haylee said. “So I just kind of chalked it up to that.”
When she told Shawn about her positive pregnancy test, he was in apparent denial as well.
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“I was like, ‘Where are you going?'” Haylee recalled Shawn taking in the news and immediately putting on his jacket to leave, perToday. “And he says, ‘I’m going to get more tests!’”
Haylee told the outlet, laughing: “Well, of course those were positive, too.”
“It was scary at first, because they’re going to be so close together in age, but if I can handle five, I can handle six!” Haylee said.
source: people.com
