St. Paddy’s Day Gift: Quads for Foothill Ranch Couple

FOOTHILL RANCH — An Orange County woman gave birth to quadruplets on St. Patrick’s Day-although through in vitro fertilization, she had been implanted with only three eggs.

One of the eggs split, producing identical twins.

Connie and Brad Dinsmore, both 34, were “doing great” and looking forward to bringing their babies home in about a week, their nanny, Nadine Nash, said Wednesday.

“They’re ecstatic,” she said. “They were really looking forward to having a family, and they got an instant one.”

The two girls and two boys are named Brooke, Madison, Drew and Brandon. The quads were delivered by Caesarean section at Saddleback Memorial Medical Center in Laguna Hills and weigh from 3.5 pounds to 5 pounds each. The Dinsmores, who have been married four years, have no other children.

She is a flight attendant for American Airlines, and he is a vice president at Bank of America, Nash said.

Although the babies were about one month premature, it was not a difficult pregnancy, Nash said.

“She was so healthy right up until the last day,” she said.

The birth date was appropriate, said hospital spokeswoman Laurie Kajiwara said. Brad Dinsmore is of Irish descent.