{"id":102449,"date":"2025-02-24T10:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T03:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cutiething.com\/?p=24828"},"modified":"2025-02-24T10:06:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T03:06:21","slug":"worlds-first-surviving-septuplets-celebrate-26th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echowoven.com\/worlds-first-surviving-septuplets-celebrate-26th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s first surviving septuplets celebrate 26th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='\"show-inline-featured-image' wp-caption alignnone>\n<figure class='\"wp-caption' alignnone><strong style='\"color:' georgia new roman charter times serif>In 1997 the world\u2019s first septuplets were born to couple Kenny and Bobbi McCaughey in Iowa, U.S.\n\n<p>The birth of these special babies, who were born 9 weeks prematurely, attracted headlines around the world as the new parents were inundated with invites for interviews.\n</p><div id='\"newsner-767af6d1c98157b630c361038e681de0\"' class='\"newsner-767af6d1c98157b630c361038e681de0' newsner-bluebillywig_instream>\n<div id='\"newsner-1341585375\"' class='\"newsner-bluebillywig_instream\"'>\n<div id='\"\"'>\n<div id='\"bb-iawr-newsner_english_playout-1601396675571335\"' class='\"bb_iawr\"'>\n<div id='\"bb-wr-newsner_english_playout-1601396675571335\"' class='\"bb-media' bb_wrapper bb-muted bb-phase-init bb-mode-video bb-pendingplay data-flags='\"{}\"' data-softembargoremainingtime='\"0\"' data-sid='\"3mAuUXLhqW6K\"' data-isready='\"true\"' data-autoplaynextremainingtime='\"0\"'>\n<div class='\"bb-layer' bb-content-layer>\n<div class='\"bb-fitme' bb-head-layer>They ended up appearing on the Oprah Winfrey Show to celebrate their first birthday and each received their own birthday cake. They also got to meet former president Bill Clinton.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>The world\u2019s first surviving set of septuplets Kenny Jr., Alexis, Natalie, Kelsey, Nathan, Brandon and Joel kept their parents, who already had a daughter, very busy.\n</p><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"aligncenter' size-full wp-image-24831 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/echowoven.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2025%5C/02%5C/babies-768x433-1.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"768\"' height='\"433\"' title='\"\"'>\n</p><p>According to Obsev.com the babies required an average of 52 nappies and 42 bottles of milk each day.\n</p><p>The couple did receive a lot of donations to help look after their babies include a 5,500 square foot home, a van, a year\u2019s worth of Kraft\u2019s macaroni and cheese, diapers for the first two years and full college scholarships for any state university in Iowa, as per the Daily Mail.\n</p><p>Their parents still worked hard to do all they could to reduce the cost of caring for 8 children and started growing their own vegetables.\n</p><p>Two of the septuplets, Alexis and Nathan, were diagnosed with cerebral palsy and they required the use of walkers. In 2005 Nathan had back surgery to improve his walking abilities and has since taught himself how to get around without a walker.\n</p><p>They graduated high school and all went on to college: Natalie, Kelsey, Nathan and Joel took up scholarships offered by private\u00a0Hannibal-LaGrange University\u00a0in\u00a0Hannibal in Missouri.\n</p><p><img loading='\"lazy\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"aligncenter' size-full wp-image-24833 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/echowoven.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2025%5C/02%5C/mccaughey-septuplets-today-15091.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"760\"' height='\"428\"' title='\"\"'>\n</p><p>Kenny and Alexis chose to stay closer to home and attended Des Moines Area Community College, and Brandon enlisted in the United States Army.\n</p><p>The siblings who graduated from college this spring say attending college was their first taste of independence.\n</p><p>Kelsey said going away to college has been a growth experience for the siblings because all five are getting a taste of real independence for the first time.\n</p><p>\u201cGrowing up, we were always together,\u201d Kelsey told the Herald-Whig.\n</p><p>\u201cWhatever we did, wherever we went, we were always together,\u201d added Kelsey, who majored in public relations and now hopes to get a job in the media.\n</p><p>\u201cI think that being able to come to HLGU gave us our own experience to be independent and to showcase our different talents and be able to dive deep into what we want to learn and what we want our professions to be. We\u2019re not just the seven septuplets. We\u2019re becoming our own people.\u201d\n</p><p>Older sister Mikayla got married in 2015 and the septuplets became aunts and uncles for the first time with the birth of her son. Natalie was the first of the septuplets to get married in May 2019, and four months later brother Brandon also got married.\n</p><p>Natalie now hopes to attend graduate school as an athletic trainer, she told the Today show.\n</p><p>Alexis studied early childhood education and wants to work in an elementary school. She has won many beauty pageants for children with special needs, winning the Teen Miss Dreams Made True pageant in 2013.\n</p><p>Nathan is majoring in computer information systems along with his brother Joel who one day hopes to work for Google in the cyber security division, while Nathan enjoys putting computers together.\n</p><p>\u201cHaving six siblings, we\u2019re not only the same age but we\u2019re all best friends,\u201d Natalie told Today. \u201cWe\u2019re really thankful for the friendship we have.\u201d\n</p><p><strong>These seven siblings are miracle babies and I\u2019m so happy to see them all winning at life.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1997 the world\u2019s first septuplets were born to couple Kenny and Bobbi McCaughey in Iowa, U.S. The birth of these special babies, who were born 9 weeks prematurely, attracted headlines around the world as the new parents were inundated with invites for interviews. 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