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Last Of Sextuplets Leaves Hospital

A group of sextuplets weighed only a combined 9 1/2 pounds when born in June. Now, after weeks of critical care, the babies are home with their parents. Get the story.
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After months of care, the last of the McGee sextuplets have been discharged from the Ohio StateUniversity Medical Center.

The six babies -- Rozonno Jr., Josiah, Isaac, Madison, Olivia and Elijah -- grabbedheadlines when they were born in June, 10TV's Tracy Townsend reported.

Before leaving on Thursday, a medical team of more than 50 people joined Mia McGheeand her children for a special goodbye party.

SLIDESHOWS: Images From Sextuplet's Birth | Images Of Nursery |  Olivia's Homecoming 

"I know the McGhees and I spoke of this day a long time ago," said Dr. DaveColombo.  "I don't know if they believed it would actually happen."

At the time of their births, the babies weighed a combined 9 1/2 pounds. Mia McGhee said her babies are plumping up, now ranging in weight from five to sevenpounds. 

"It's almost like that chapter is closed we're opening a new one," she said. "I'm happy I'm finally a mother.  Like I said, last year we were mourning the loss of our twinboys, and now I have I have six."

Elijah, the baby who struggled the most after being born, was the last to bedischarged on Thursday.

"He can breathe on his own," McGhee said.  "Just want to make he's readybecause he had a lot of scar tissue."

McGhee said that her family grew close to the hospital staff after enduring weeksof critical care.

"We were here 10 weeks, then three months after they were born," she said. "Yeah, Ifeel like it's a big family."

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Previous Stories:

August 11, 2010: First Of Columbus Sextuplets Goes Home
August 6, 2010: Columbus' First Set Of Sextuplets Prepare To Go Home
June 9, 2010: First Set Of Sextuplets Born At OSU Medical Center

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