1. The sextuplets were born after their Mum Sue had fertility treatment.

2. An Illinois woman reportedly gave birth to sextuplets, five of whom survived.

3. If this were an old-fashioned hexagon, our sextuplet would be joyfully paired off by the time the curtain fell.

4. The sextuplets are seven today and they've been celebrating with cakes, presents and party games.

5. Only two other sets of sextuplets have been born in Britain and Jan has now appointed a media agent.

6. Sextuplet semiquavers sail up and down, bearing along a variation on the leaping piano theme from near the beginning of the Allegro.

7. While multiple births have increased in recent years because of the success of fertility drugs, sextuplets still are rare.