On May 21, 1985, a 38-member medical team assembled at St. Joseph's Hospital in Orange, California, United States, to assist in what was to become the first largest multiple births in the medical history of the United States of America.
Patti Frustaci, a 30-year-old English teacher at Rubidoux High School was wheeled into the delivery room of St. Joseph's Hospital. It took only three minutes for the caesarean section to deliver the first septuplets to be born in the United States. The birth of the Frustaci septuplets does not constitute a miracle in that it can be explained by means of the known laws of nature.
While the birth of the Frustaci septuplets marked the finale of months of careful preparation on the part of the medical team,…