'Ferrill Five' doing fine

Wire Services ST. LOUIS (AP) - It has taken an oversized effort to deliver and care for the quintuplets already known as the "Ferrill Five." Born to parents Pete and Jenny Ferrill of Danville, Ill., on Dec. 21, each weighed a little more than 3 pounds. All are doing well, though the babies are expected to stay in a neonatal intensive care unit at St. Louis Children's Hospital for several more weeks. About 100 doctors, nurses and other staffers helped deliver the two girls and three boys at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. Hospital staff said Wednesday that they practiced the deliveries ahead of time, using bags of saline as stand-ins for the babies. Staffers were assigned to teams in the operating room for specific babies; from there th