Quadruplet Baby Girls Now Six Months Old

Press, Volume C, Issue 29648, 19 October 1961, Page 2

Quadruplet Baby Girls Now Six Months Old

(New Zealand Press Association)

WELLINGTON, Oct. 18. The quadruplet children of Mr and Mrs C. I. Mason, of Tawa, now six months old, are four normal little girls doing a great deal in exactly the same way, yet each evolving a distinct personality. Two of them, Colleen and Jill, are known as twins. In appearance, they are virtually identical. Anne is readily known by her curly hair and her likeness to her 44-year-old brother, Keith. Helen, if she keeps on the way she is going, is likely to see her sisters in her outgrown “cast-offs.” The smallest at birth, she has romped ahead. With the help of a Karitane nurse, it takes Mrs Mason about three-quarters of an hour to fix the baby girls with a solids and milk meal three times a day. Bathing and feeding at night account for about one hour and a half. A never-ending load of napkins goes through the wash. Operating with a total of more than six dozen, Mrs Mason and her home-aid do two washes a day. A great deal of frustration (“those safety pins are never here when they’re wanted”) is avoided by the use of nopins naps, given by the inventor. All the babies are “smilers” and have reached the roll-over stage of activity. They sleep for four hours and a half in the mornings,

and an hour in the afternoons. Apart from a turn of stomach “bug,” the four have had no physical setbacks. They have no teeth yet—just the symptoms. The foundations have been laid for a bigger bouse for the Mason family at the southern end of Tawa. They may move in by next Easter.