Quintuplets born early at Phoenix hospital are ‘angels’

PHOENIX Bringing five babies into the world has left Jamie Scott feeling tired, excited and ultimately blessed.

She delivered quintuplets by Caesarean section after 29 weeks of pregnancy on March 21 at Dignity Health St. Joseph Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix.

“I feel so blessed when I look at each of their little faces, and each of their little souls I can feel,” she said.

She and her husband Skyler Scott temporarily moved from Utah to Phoenix in December to get care at St. Joseph’s. The hospital, in partnership with the Elliott Center for Multiples, is a goto facility for pregnancies with high-order multiples, or triplets or more.

The new Scott children include three girls — Violet, Daisy, Lily — and two boys, Logan and Lincoln. All were born weighing less than three pounds.

The babies are doing well; no one needs a breathing tube or is on antibiotics, said Dr. Vinit Manuel, who is the medical director of what St. Joseph’s calls its Nursery Intensive Care Unit. He said they’ll likely spend the next five to six weeks in the hospital.

The Scotts amassed more than 53,000 Facebook followers and more than 35,000 Instagram followers during the pregnancy. Speaking to the media on Friday, the Scotts praised their health care team. Jamie Scott required eight weeks of bed rest.

“They really made it so bearable and wonderful,” Skyler Scott said.