MOTHER OF QUINTUPLETS TALE OF LOVE AND STRUGGLE

From the Washington Post:

Five Time the Fears
Husband Overseas, Quintuplets' Mother Overwhelmed by Demands, Expenses

By William Wan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 23, 2009

"There are days when life for Adwai Malual looks like an endless wheel. Already she has lived through much: growing up in Sudan as war tore apart her homeland, discovering in the midst of it that she was pregnant, coming to this strange land of America.

Then, weeks later, she gave birth to quintuplets.

Now, in a small, crowded apartment in Laurel nearly two months after the babies' delivery, Malual's life is dominated by another kind of chaos. It begins every day at 3 a.m., as she wakes up to take over feeding duties from her mother, visiting from Sudan. One by one, she tends to her five babies in 40-minute shifts. By the time she has changed the last one's diaper, the first is crying for food again. And so it goes for 12 hours straight, until she hands them off to her mother so she can sleep for a little while before waking do it all again. "

Read more on Malual's story here.