Seven from Heaven
In 1998, Bobbi and Kenny McCaughey published a book called ” Seven From Heaven: The Miracle of the McCaughey Septuplets” in which they shared their experience as parents of septuplets in their first year of life. In the book, the couple reveals how they started with a battalion of volunteers who were happy to help when the babies were born but managed to cut the help to just two volunteers after a year.
The book also describes a typical day in the life of the family. In their first year of life, the septuplets would rise before 7 a.m. and have breakfast, then go on to take three naps at 9 a.m., 1 p.m., and 4:30 p.m. A meal followed each of the naps, and just before 7 p.m., the little ones would have a bath and go to bed for the night.
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The parents said that the babies were not difficult ones and they were happy about this. “A lot of credit has to go to the kids,” their father said. “They’re not gripey kids. They don’t cry a lot. When they need something is when they cry or when they don’t feel well. We might have a different story if we had a kid that cried for months on end.”
“Seven From Heaven” was also full of anticipation for the little ones to grow up and go on having all the milestones parents expect from their kids. Their parents said: “It’s so neat to watch them meet the next developmental milestone. Every day, ‘Is this the day when Kenny takes a step?’ It will be so neat to sit back and watch them all run to the next room or look out and see them playing on the deck or running around outside.”