Tuesday, October 1, 1996

Snyder quints to get big shower By LORETTA FULTON
Regional Editor

SNYDER - A great big shower will be put on for some little bitty babies Oct. 22.

Brent and Deshonna Taylor of Snyder, parents of quintuplets born Sept. 21 in a Lubbock hospital, will be most grateful for donations.

"They need a mountain of diapers," said Donna Fowler, manager of the Snyder Chamber of Commerce, which is playing hostess to the shower.

The shower will be from 4:30-6:30 p.m., Oct. 22, in Scurry County Coliseum. The family needs everything except baby beds, Fowler said.

As of Monday, all five babies had been taken off ventilators and were doing fine at St. Mary of the Plains Hospital in Lubbock, said their dad, Brent.

Help is coming from all around. Q100 radio station, 1740 N. 1st in Abilene, is serving as a dropoff center.

"We're just so grateful to Abilene for helping us - we're all in the Big Country together," Fowler said.

She said personnel from the radio station contacted her after reading about the quints in the Abilene Reporter-News. The station will deliver all donations to the coliseum for the shower.

Brent Taylor said Monday that doctors think two of the babies can come home in 4-6 weeks and the others will follow later.

"They don't want to dump all of them on us at once," he said.

Brent said he and his wife were most surprised by the announcement of the quintuplets, but no more surprised than the fertility specialist they had been seeing in Lubbock for about seven years.
The doctor guaranteed it wouldn't happen again, he said.

Even though tending to five newborns plus a four-year-old could be intimidating to some people, Brent believes he and his wife are up to the challenge.

"I guess the Good Lord thought we were good enough parents we could handle it," he said.