Happy Birth-Day! Masche family blessed six times over in an extraordinary delivery at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center
 The Masche sextuplets at six weeks: Savannah Jane, Bailey Elizabeth, Grant William, Cole Robert, Molli Grace and Blake Nickolas. |
Meet their new family:
Baby A - girl 2 lbs., 1 oz. Born at: 8:21 a.m.
Baby B - girl 2 lbs., 14 oz. Born at: 8:22 a.m.
Baby C - boy 3 lbs., 0 oz. Born at: 8:23 a.m.
Baby D - boy 2 lbs., 7 oz. Born at: 8:24 a.m.
Baby E - girl 2 lbs., 6 oz. Born at: 8:25 a.m.
Baby F - boy 2 lbs., 11 oz. Born at: 8:26 a.m.
The babies were delivered at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center, and are now being cared for by Phoenix Children’s Hospital neonatology specialists. The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), located inside Banner Good Samaritan, is operated by Phoenix Children’s Hospital. The connection between the two hospitals means mom can recover at Banner Good Sam, but remain only an elevator ride away from her babies.
“We anticipated all possible problems, and they didn’t happen,” said Dr. John Elliott. “This delivery as good as you could possibly draw up. I wouldn’t have changed a thing.”
The names that have been selected are: Bailey Elizabeth, Savannah Jane, Molli Grace, Cole Robert, Blake Nickolas, and Grant William. Jenny and Bryan chose not to match names to babies until they could meet their children in person. Jenny, 32, delivered her first children after a very high-risk pregnancy that lasted 30 weeks and 4 days. She has been on bed rest since early in her pregnancy, and was admitted to Banner Good Samaritan on March 26. Jenny was asked to eat 5,000 calories a day in order to provide for the tremendous nutritional needs of her growing babies, and has received ongoing intravenous medications to stave off pre-term labor.
Bryan, 29, has been able to spend the final weeks in the hospital with his wife, but earlier in the pregnancy he logged many miles shuttling between his new pharmaceutical sales job in Lake Havasu and his pregnant wife in Phoenix.
From the day they are born, parents can’t help but think of the bright future they hope to offer their children. In an unbelievably generous show of support for the Masche babies, Grand Canyon University, in Phoenix, has offered each of the six a full scholarship to attend their institution in 2025! Other donations have included formula and diapers.
Individuals wishing to send congratulations, prayers, emails and letters of support can reach the family at maschemiracles@yahoo.com. A benefit account has been set up for the family at Bank of America (statewide) under “Masche Sextuplet Fund.”
Dr. Elliott, his colleagues at Phoenix Perinatal Associates and the nursing staffs at Banner Good Samaritan and Phoenix Children’s Hospital, have developed an international reputation for their care and management of women delivering high-order multiples (triplets or more). Banner Good Samaritan has delivered about 75 sets of quadruplets and five sets of quintuplets to date. This is the hospital’s second set of sextuplets. Most of the quintuplets delivered at Banner Good Samaritan – and more than half of the quadruplets – have come to Phoenix from another part of the country. One quadruplet mom, a physician, traveled from Russia. This is thought to be more sets of high-order multiples than has been delivered at any other hospital in the U.S., and perhaps the world.
The Bailey sextuplets were born to Stacy and Steve Bailey, of Surprise, Ariz., in February 2006 at Banner Good Samaritan. Sadly, the Bailey family suffered the loss of identical twin boys in utero.
Located in downtown Phoenix, Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center has been providing medical care to Arizona and the Southwest since 1911. Banner Good Samaritan is owned and operated by Phoenix-based Banner Health, a not-for-profit organization. The hospital was named to U.S.News & World Report’s America’s Best Hospitals report in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Heart Care and Surgery and Endocrinology. Banner Good Samaritan has also been recognized as a Magnet facility by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, the highest honor a hospital can earn for its nursing care.
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For updated information on Jenny Masche, please contact Banner Good Samaritan at 602-239-4411.
For updated information on the sextuplets, please contact Phoenix Children’s Hospital via pager 602-202-2229.
Pronunciation of the family name is: ma-shay
B-roll from the delivery is available, contact Banner Good Samaritan for further details.
Contact:
Banner Good Samaritan Public Relations
(602) 239-4411
