Happy life of cute quintuplets

"Daddy, Daddy…" Five children scramble to throw themselves into the arms of Jiao Baocun at the entrance to the Experimental Primary School in Fengtai District, Beijing. Unlike most other parents, Jiao is picking up five children: three girls and two boys.

Jiao is an ordinary farmer from Cangzhou, Hebei Province. The lives of his family became unusual seven years ago when his wife gave birth to quintuplets.

Nov.29, the quintuplets pictured together at the Experimental Primary School  in Fengtai District, Beijing.

The quintuplets were born on March 4 2002, in around just three minutes. That day has left a lasting impression on Jiao, "The babies were all breathing well, and had an average weight of over three jin."

The quintuplets pictured together at the Experimental Primary School in Fengtai  District, Beijing.

The quintuplets were named by the president of the Buddhist Association of China not long after they were born. The eldest, third eldest and fourth eldest are girls; and the second eldest and youngest are boys. They are called Fuqing, Fuli, Fuxin, Fusen and Fuyuan respectively, which means the "five blessings".

Caring for the children was hard for Jiao and his wife. The quintuplets needed milk every two hours, and it took an hour to feed each child. The couple was also frantically busy changing diapers, soothing the babies when they cried, and caring for them when they were sick.