LEXINGTON — Bailey Wainscott was born on Nov. 16, but her four brothers and sisters didn't join her until 16 days later.

        Monica Wainscott, of Frankfort, gave birth to the remaining four babies — two girls and two boys — on Sunday at the University of Kentucky Hospital in Lexington.

        “I'm feeling all right. I'm just wore out,” said Mrs. Wainscott, 33. “I gave birth to four babies (Sunday). Bailey, the little girl, she came November 16. She wanted out of the group I guess.”

        In delayed-interval deliveries, usually one of the children is born so early that he or she may not survive, said John O'Brien, the Wainscotts' doctor.

        “What's great about Monica's case is, the first baby is surviving and doing well, and the remaining children are at least starting off on a better foot because of the efforts that she put in to hold off delivery,” he said.

        Delivered at 27 weeks on Sunday were Avery, Shelby, William Garrett, and Lucas. Avery, the smallest of the four, weighed 1 pound, 8 ounces; Lucas was the biggest at 2 pounds, 5 ounces. Bailey was 1 pound, 4 ounces when she was born at Central Baptist at almost 25 weeks.

        Mrs. Wainscott and her husband, Milton, have a 10-year-old son, Cody, and had been trying to have a baby for eight years. Mrs. Wainscott learned she was carrying five babies when she was about six weeks pregnant.

        “We were surprised, but we were overjoyed. We really were,” she said. “We considered it being blessed five times.”

        Mrs. Wainscott had been at Central Baptist Hospital on bed rest since Nov. 7. After giving birth to Bailey on Nov. 16, doctors clamped her umbilical cord, and she and the baby were transported to UK Hospital because it has greater capability to care for babies born at that size, Dr. O'Brien said.

        The remaining four children were delivered by Caesarean section. Mrs. Wainscott did not know when she or the babies would be allowed to go home.

        On Oct. 28, Stephanie Powell of Louisville delivered three boys and two girls. They were the first quintuplets born in Kentucky in more than 80 years.

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