March 29, 2024

Sunday is graduation day for famed septuplets of Iowa

CARLISLE — The world’s first surviving septuplets are scheduled to graduate Sunday from an Iowa high school. Alexis, Brandon, Joel, Kelsey, Kenny, Natalie and Nathan McCaughey were born Nov. 19, 1997, ranging in weight from 2 pounds, 5 ounces to 3 pounds, 4 ounces. Their mother had taken a fertility drug. The children gained international fame for their births. Iowans who have watched the siblings grow often approach the McCaugheys to tell them that they can remember where they were on the day the kids were born.