{"id":93447,"date":"2025-12-18T23:24:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/93447\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T23:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:24:14","slug":"el-paso-quintuplets-to-celebrate-christmas-at-home-after-leaving-nicu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/93447\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso quintuplets to celebrate Christmas at home after leaving NICU"},"content":{"rendered":"

El Pasoan Theresa Troia became a first-time mom to five babies this year.<\/p>\n

By Yi-Jin Yu<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

December 18, 2025, 11:34 AM<\/p>\n

For one El Paso mom, this holiday season is extra special.<\/p>\n

Theresa Troia, 36, will celebrate Christmas with all five of her\u00a0quintuplets<\/a>\u00a0at home after giving birth to them in June. The last quintuplet to be discharged from the neonatal intensive care unit came home in November, after spending five months hospitalized.<\/p>\n

“Last Christmas, I was carrying them and just praying they would all make it here safely. Now, I get to celebrate with five healthy babies in my arms,” the nurse consultant and new mom told ABC News via email. “Being a first-time mom, and to quintuplets, makes every holiday moment feel bigger. Every little thing means so much more.”<\/p>\n

\"\"\/Kyla, Joseph, Jaxon, Viviana, and Isabella in their festive, red-and-white striped pajamas and Santa hats.Courtesy Theresa Troia<\/p>\n

Troia, 36, welcomed Kyla, Joseph, Jaxon, Viviana, and Isabella at 28 weeks and 1 day. In November, after about five months in the hospital, Viviana was discharged and joined her four siblings at home in El Paso, Texas.<\/p>\n

“It feels incredible. I truly don’t have words \u2026 like, my home and my heart are finally complete,” Troia said. “Having all five here together after everything we went through in the [neonatal intensive care unit] is something I still wake up grateful for every day.”<\/p>\n

\"\"\/Kyla, Joseph, Jaxon, Viviana, and Isabella live in El Paso, Texas, with their mom Theresa Troia.Courtesy Theresa Troia<\/p>\n

Quintuplet births are relatively rare. The\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics<\/a>\u00a0estimates there were only about 148 quadruplet or higher-order births, including quintuplets, in the United States in 2023.<\/p>\n

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Troia previously told ABC News she did not undergo any fertility treatments.<\/p>\n

What makes Troia’s story even more interesting is that the 36-year-old is a\u00a0quadruplet<\/a>\u00a0herself. She has three brothers, Joseph Troia, Matthew Troia and Thomas Troia.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/Kyla, Joseph, Jaxon, Viviana, and Isabella were born at 28 weeks in June 2025.Courtesy Theresa Troia<\/p>\n

Troia also said during her pregnancy, she and her care team learned that two of her quintuplets — Isabella and Viviana — were identical\u00a0monochorionic-diamniotic or Mo-Di<\/a>\u00a0twins, meaning they shared a placenta but were in separate amniotic sacs.<\/p>\n

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Troia said she is planning to make the quintuplets’ first Christmas a “magical” one and start new traditions with them like hanging stockings, leaving cookies and milk out on Christmas Eve and reading Christmas bedtime stories.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/Theresa Troia are her quintuplets — Kyla, Joseph, Jaxon, Viviana, and Isabella — are getting ready to celebrate their first Christmas together.Courtesy Theresa Troia<\/p>\n

“Christmas Eve celebration was big for me growing up so I want to do the same,” Troia explained.<\/p>\n

“I really want our first Christmas to feel calm, cozy, and centered around us finally being together,” she added. “This holiday is about slowing down, soaking them in, and appreciating how far we’ve come as a little family of six \u2026 it’s about the five tiny miracles I get to hold in my arms.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"El Pasoan Theresa Troia became a first-time mom to five babies this year. By Yi-Jin Yu\u00a0 December 18,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-93447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}