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They expected four babies, and then there were five
Couple recount joys and struggles of parenting Singapore's first quintuplets, now 21 years old
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Mrs Dorothy Chin with her brood of five - (from left) Adriel, Alicia, Amanda, Annabelle and Andre - who were born in that order on April Fool's Day in 1997. The two boys and three girls were the first set of quintuplets to be born in Singapore.
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Calvin Yang
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It may have been April Fool's Day, but what happened to civil servant Humphrey Chin and his financial consultant wife Dorothy on April 1, 1997, was no joke.
The couple were expecting four babies, so it came as a surprise when a fifth bundle of joy was born at KK Women's and Children's Hospital - after going undetected in pregnancy scans.
