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McKinney mom gives birth to 2 sets of twins

DALLAS -- Two sets of identical twins were born to a McKinney woman who says she's fought to keep her babies after some suggested she should consider abortion or adoption.

Amanda Davis gave birth Friday to the quadruplets, two boys and two girls, at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas.

"I fought so hard because I knew I wanted them, even when they told me it was four babies," Davis, 18, told The Dallas Morning News in today's editions. "I wanted my babies, all of them."

One of her doctors said the odds of such a birth, in which each child has a twin, are as much as one in 35 million.

The babies were born at 29 1/2 weeks' gestation and within three minutes of one another, beginning at 8:56 a.m. Friday. Weighing between 1 pound 14 ounces and 2 pounds 9 ounces, the infants were placed in the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit, where they were expected to remain for at least six weeks.

Doctors said the boys, Vincent Ryan and Raymond Zachery, were on ventilators, while the girls, Ruby Abbygail and Alexis Rochelle, were breathing on their own.

"They're still at risk of complications for the first 24 to 72 hours -- related to their prematurity and being multiples," said Dr. Cody Arnold, the babies' neonatologist. "We can't relax until they're off the ventilators."

Connie Franklin of McKinney, the grandmother, said family members supported the mother's decision to raise the children, even though they know it will not be easy.

"Her first doctor told her she should abort two of them," the grandmother said.

Dr. H. Frank Andersen, who became Davis' obstetrician after the first doctor dropped her case, said he admired how closely the young woman followed his directions, which included bed rest since June.