On May 8, the Washington, D.C., couple set the American record for the longest sextuplet pregnancy at 29 weeks and six days. They also were the first African-American couple to give birth to sextuplets. The children were delivered by Caesarean section. One was delivered stillborn. Mrs. Thompson remained hospitalized for a month at the Georgetown University Medical Center.
Sextuplets are almost unheard of.
Other than the Thompsons, there has been only one other recorded birth of sextuplets in the United States this year. In an extensive search of all major publications, I found no record of any TV news feature, special report or print feature on them in any major daily. If not for a brief news blurb on the Thompson births in the black weekly Jet magazine, the event would have gone completely unnoticed. It's not hard to figure out why. They did not use a fertility drug.