All-female quintuplet birth may be first

This statistic may go down in the record books.

A Houston hospital says a woman has delivered five girls in what it believes is the first set of all-female quintuplets born in the U.S.

The Woman's Hospital of Texas says the girls were born premature at 28 weeks and are doing well.

The family already had one daughter.

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