Taunton Mom Gives Birth To Two Sets Of Identical Twins

TAUNTON, MA — A Taunton mom gave birth to two sets of identical twins Thursday, a pregnancy that experts in maternal-fetal medicine call a 1-in-10 million rarity.

Ashley Ness, 35, of Taunton, gave birth to four babies - two boys, and two girls just before 4 a.m. at Massachusetts General Hospital Thursday.

Only about 150 sets of quadruplets and higher-order multiples are born in the United States each year. Most often, they happen when a parent has been using assisted reproduction. In Ness' case, her quadruplets are considered spontaneous, meaning naturally occurring.

Now her newborns will spend about the next eight weeks at Mass General for Children, as they were born after 28 weeks and two days, roughly 12 weeks premature, a spokesperson for the hospital confirmed.

Both Ness and her boyfriend say they are thrilled and overwhelmed. According to a GoFundMe, the two already have four children between them, and expenses are going to keep adding up. The GoFundMe has been organized to help the couple care for the children.

According to an exclusive article from PEOPLE magazine, Ness said the children already have names picked out. "Keeping with a family tradition that starts names with the letters CH, she decided the two girls will be Chesley and Chatham, and the two boys will be Chance and Cheston," the article reads.

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