A New York couple spent seven years raising their only child, a son - until he was joined by sextuplets, only the second set ever born in the city. <br />Two Girls and four boys were born earlier this month to 31-year-old Digna Carpio and her 36-year-old husband, Victor, a maintenance worker with the city's Housing Authority. <br />The sextuplets were born at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Medical Center, weighing 1 1/2 to 2 pounds each. Until their parents name them, they're known as babies A, B, C, D, E and F. <br />The couple didn't announce the births immediately because they wanted to make sure the infants all lived. Doctors originally gave one of the two girls only a 25 percent chance to survive because of a heart valve problem that has since been repaired surgically; she now has a 75 percent chance. <br />"I've watched each of my babies fight so hard to survive," Digna Carpio tearfully told the Daily News. "Life is beautiful, and we're so thankful." <br />City Council member Tony Avella started a collection for baby supplies. <br />New York's only other sextuplets, the Boniellos, were born in 1997.
