{"id":75157,"date":"2013-04-03T10:27:13","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T14:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=75157"},"modified":"2014-01-16T15:23:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T20:23:30","slug":"zipadelli-quad-delivers-baby-at-health-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2013\/04\/zipadelli-quad-delivers-baby-at-health-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Zipadelli Quad Delivers Baby at Health Center"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Zippadelli-Vacca<\/a>
Frank and Kristin (Zipadelli) Vacca with their daughter Angela Jeannine and Dr. Winston Campbell. (Photo provided by Kristin Vacca)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s been 28 years since the Zipadelli quads were born at the UConn Health Center \u2013 making history as the state\u2019s first surviving quadruplets. \u00a0One of the quads, Kristin, is now a proud parent herself, delivering a baby girl at the Health Center on Friday.<\/p>\n

Angela Jeannine weighed 7 pounds 14 ounces \u2013\u00a0a far cry from Kristin\u2019s birth weight of one pound, 13 ounces.\u00a0 Kristin was the smallest quad. Her brothers \u2013\u00a0James, Dan and Mark \u2013 each weighed closer to 2 pounds.<\/p>\n

When Kristin and her husband Frank Vacca of Newington learned they were expecting, they had no doubts about where she would have the baby.<\/p>\n

\"Zippadelli-Vacca<\/a>
Angela Jeannine Vacca born on March 29 weighing 7 pounds, 14 ounces. (Photo provided by Kristen Vacca)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\u201cMy parents had excellent care here and it was something they talked about when we were kids and still talk about now so when we found out we were expecting, it didn\u2019t take long for us to call Dr. Campbell and get ourselves in,\u201d says Kristin.<\/p>\n

Dr. Winston Campbell<\/a>, director of maternal-fetal medicine, says he was extremely excited when Kristin told him she wanted to deliver her own baby at the Health Center.<\/p>\n

He still vividly remembers the day she and her brothers were born and says the deliveries on June 13, 1984 became a model for multiple births.<\/p>\n

As a young physician who had graduated from UConn\u2019s School of Medicine and done his residency training at the Health Center, Campbell and the maternal-fetal medicine team decided to take an aggressive and intensive approach in order to save all four babies. Kristin\u2019s mother was hospitalized for nearly four months and she delivered at six-and-a-half months. At the time, the premature quads were given a 50\/50 chance of survival. The babies remained in intensive care for up to five months.<\/p>\n

\"Zippadelli-Vacca<\/a>
Frank and Kristin (Zipadelli) Vacca of Newington with their daughter Angela Jeannine (Photo provided by Kristen Vacca)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIf it wasn\u2019t for Dr. Campbell, I wouldn\u2019t be here,\u201d explains Kristin. \u201cHe was really a big reason why we wanted to come back.\u00a0 Knowing he was still here and some of the nurses are still here that took care of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The quads, all UConn graduates, are still close and Kristin\u2019s brothers are very excited to be uncles.\u00a0 Kristin is the first to have a child.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would like to thank everyone for the wonderful care we\u2019ve received here,\u201d says Kristin. \u201cThey really are a great group and helped make the birth of our baby even more special.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Angela was born, the Vaccas had a steady stream of visitors as the nurses who had once cared for Kristin and her brothers came to see the newest member of the Zipadelli family. And Dr. Campbell \u2014 who still has the quads\u2019 baby pictures in his Health Center office \u2014 now has another photo to add to his collection.<\/p>\n

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Follow\u00a0the UConn Health Center<\/a> on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0Twitter<\/a> and\u00a0YouTube<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twenty-eight years after delivering the state\u2019s first surviving quadruplets, Dr. Winston Campbell welcomes the second generation of Zipadellis. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":75159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[45],"class_list":["post-75157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 06:30:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75157"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88415,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75157\/revisions\/88415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/75159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75157"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=75157"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=75157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}