The Quintillizos Ruffini turns 25: "In each ultrasound one more baby appeared"

The Quintillizos Ruffini turns 25: "In each ultrasound one more baby appeared"

There are two moments that Cecilia Baconsky remembers sharply.One happened during 1986, when the diagnosis entered as a stab: he had an obstruction in the fallopian tubes, so he could not get pregnant.The other time is dated in 1992: Cecilia was lying down and breastfeeding a baby with one chest and another baby with the other.The remaining three were distributed in the rest of their body.In the image he stored, Cecilia was 32 years.

"I wanted to have many children, but from one," Cecilia is laughing (54) from her home, in San Nicolás.She is the mother of the Quintillizos Ruffini and her story is - together with that of the Quintillizos Riganti and that of the Sextillizos López- a postcard of the 90s.Multiple families seated, year after year, in the living room of Susana Giménez: photos, gifts and sponsors eager to sponsor the new "children of science".

"At that time, assisted reproduction was just beginning.And at 26, when they gave me the diagnosis, they told me 'I walk in vitro because you are already wasting time, "she tells Infobae.Cecilia was a doctor's secretary and Aldo Ruffini, who was her husband, was a young architect.

As they did not have enough money to pay the studies and treatment at a private clinic, Cecilia began to travel almost 300 kilometers, from San Nicolás to the city, to attend at the Hospital de Clínicas."I spent my salary in a week.He opened his legs and there were 50 doctors looking at but hey, it was what there was ".

There were three years going and coming, sometimes three times a week.Until one day, the hospital began to make fertilizations at no cost and opened a waiting list.Cecilia was excited but the illusion disintegrated barely told him that there were so many couples before he was going to have to wait at least another two years.So that the studies did.

In the first incent of in vitro fertilization, in 1991, three embryos transferred him.No "lit" none."In the second attempt, they transferred five.As then there was no selection of embryos, what they believed is that at most two or three could remain, "he continues.The first ultrasound, a week after the transfer, showed that I was pregnant with Trillizos: "I was happy but they told me 'I stop, you do not cheer up, capable later there is none.'.The feeling was of failure, no doctor wanted to generate such a high risk pregnancy ".

The next ultrasound showed that he had not lost any, on the contrary: "The fourth baby appeared.I was super happy, re unconscious.The doctor told me: 'We are in the oven'.And they sent me to sew my cervix so that if an embryo remained halfway did not harm the rest ".To make the intervention they made another ultrasound.No one could believe it: a fifth baby appeared.

Los quintillizos Ruffini cumplen 25 años:

Over time, however, the pregnancies of quadrillizos and quintillizos became a model in extinction.The statistics of the reproductive medicine (SAMER) show it.In 1995, when it was the boom of assisted reproduction, in 50% of the in vitro fertilizations 4 embryos were transferred or more.

The risks were so high (and with so many chances of death for the mother and babies) that the paradigm turned a "the only child": today, in 95% of cases one or two embryos are transferred so that,At most, be twins.

Cecilia and Aldo kept calm.Her father, on the other hand, entered shock, because her daughter and her husband lived in his house: how were they going to keep them?Where were everyone going to live?Cecilia spent seven and a half months at rest but she kept doing bouquets lying down, to contribute some money to the family.Until that also prohibited that.

"Five months of pregnancy, the diameter of my belly was that of a woman who was about to give birth.They did not let my belly stroke me because if babies moved they could cause contractions, "he says.

On November 4, 1992, the quintillizos - four girls and a male - were born by caesarean section and in this order: Bertina (which weighed 1,270 kg.And it was the most weight), Ángeles, Macarena, María José (the youngest, with 1,150 kg) and Nazareno.They spent a month in neonatology.Cecilia was going to see them in a wheelchair.I was so weak that I could barely walk.To avoid the risk of infections in premature babies, they were not placed rings, so some failed to distinguish who was who was.

Macarena and Nazareno had hemorrhages -the baby, in addition, spent time fighting a bacteria -and were the ones that were more complicated."In those days at the clinic we carry it quite well but every time the alarms began to sound because some had apneas, which are small respiratory strikes, my heart stopped," he recalls.

When they were discharged, the Ruffini and the doctors offered a joint press conference that was transmitted by all the channels.Then they went to the department they had given them in capital."So far everything very nice, all full of gifts, toys.But that night, we arrived at the apartment and we wanted to kill ourselves ".

The quintillizos began to cry at the same time: "We turned off the lights and cried, we set them on the lights and cried.Until we realized that when we all put them together in the same cradle they calmed down, "says Cecilia.And he says that they continued to do as they grew up.At night he used to each one in his bed, in the morning they all woke up together in a.

When they arrived in San Nicolás, their friends and family organized "La Diaper Dinner": you could eat in exchange for diapers packages.The Ruffini filled a room with diaper towers that reached the roof: "I thought it was a lot.Well, they lasted three months.At that time we had already sold to the car, "he continues.

The invitations to Hola Susana served them to equip themselves: in the first program they were given an automatic washing machine and a freezer.They were invited to the living room at least 14 times: from those visits the exchange furniture came for the room, the five beds, the light tables, the comforting one, the shelf, more diapers.A children's clothing brand also invited them to parade and gave them boxes with enteritos and bodies.And a medical visitor made samples of maternal milk and papilla cans.

You had to keep them and, in addition, think tricks to contain them: "Of course, because one began to cry one, then two, then the five and ended up crying you.Then you realized that they were infected, like when babies spread the laugh ".

Cecilia gave them the two tit and the rest were on top of her body."Or put a shirt to feel the smell and calm down, as they do to the puppies," he laughs.They had to rent a large house, find a cleaning employee, buy two refrigerators and hire a nurse to help them at night.Cecilia gave everyone until 9 months.

When the boys turned two years old, he returned to work.On weekends I left them with the father and grandparents and a catering service was to be attended for events -in which he is still working -.He returned home at 7 in the morning and started the change of guard.

"It was a very stressful happiness," he defines.And remember the morning when the five babies had a gastrointestinal virus at the same time and spent the night vomiting.And the day Nazareno climbed the refrigerator to steal cookies and fell.Cecilia found him a while later under a bed, asleep and with his face covered with blood.

The boys went to school together -they were all scholarships -so they still have many friends in common.When they turned 13, Cecilia and Aldo separated.They had a simple 15 -year party, but they had it.Until they went to study Rosario and Cecilia had a vacuum nest."Horrible.Also, as someone had always been very difficult for five to invite the five together, all friends came home.I passed from the overcrowded house to the empty house ".

Bertina studied audiovisual production and is about to receive.Angeles received from interior designer, Macarena is an clothing designer, Maria José is a professional and graphic designer and Nazareno designer is a sports journalist.Some received and returned home, in San Nicolás.And on November 4 they will celebrate their 25 years of life together.

"I told you," Cecilia says, "it's a very stressful happiness.It was a life to the runs, the overlap of tasks exhausts you, the demand is permanent.The good thing is that I am not a guilty mother, I never went, and I feel that I have done everything I could, that I have been in everything they needed.And they are so pegotes with me that I guess they know ".

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