This couple attends the church my dad pastored in New York. Imagine 6!!!! OMG!!!!
They will be fine financially. They, along with their extended family are well invested in real estate.
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Victor and
Digna Carpio might be overwhelmed with six babies on the way - but the
Queens couple is in everyone's prayers, including the last New Yorkers to have sextuplets.
"God bless them," said
Beverly Boniello, who in 1997 gave birth to four girls and two boys who are now 11.
Boniello, a former Queens resident who now lives in
Williston Park, L.I., warned that the diapers will be flying, but it will all be worth it.
"It's going to be a challenge for them, but they will get through it," she said Sunday after seeing Digna Carpio's picture on the cover of the Sunday Daily News.
Boniello and her husband, Rocco, detailed the ups and downs of raising sextuplets in a profile with The News when their kids turned 10.
"Christmas morning, it is chaos - paper flying everywhere, screaming and yelling,"
Rocco Boniello said.
He added that when one child catches a cold, they all will. "It's like a plague pretty much," he said.
A copy of Sunday's Daily News front page - with a very pregnant Digna - was posted at the Tabernacle Church of Jesus Christ in Corona, where the Carpios are members.
Fellow parishioners, who have known for months the couple is expecting six more children, made them the center of attention.
"When we arrived, [they] had already taped a copy of the Daily News article on a wall inside, and everyone congratulated us,"
Victor Carpio said.
"When I picked up the paper this morning and saw my wife on the front page, tears streamed down my face."
At 21 weeks into her pregnancy, Digna Carpio, 31, and the four boys and two girls she is carrying are doing well.
With fewer than 200 such births worldwide, sextuplets are rare.
Beverly Boniello said the biggest challenges will come later as the Carpios try to juggle hobbies and activities of so many schoolchildren. "She'll do well. She looks fabulous in the paper today," Boniello said.
Victor Carpio, a maintenance worker for the city's Housing Authority, was grateful for the outpouring of support.
"We just hope that for the next 24 weeks that everything goes okay," said the nervous dad, his wife standing quietly by his side. The couple already have one son, Jhancarlos, 7.
A neighbor vowed to be there for the Carpios.
"They are lovely people," said Rita, a senior citizen who gave only her first name.
"If I ever need anything, they're there for me."
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