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5th Sextuplet Ready To Go Home

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 10, 2007

WESLEY CHAPEL - Ryan Patrick Byler is scheduled to come home today in time for a house-call checkup by the pediatricians treating Florida's first sextuplets. Ryan would become the fifth of the six infants to be released from All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, where Charlie Craig Byler remains in fair condition.

"Ryan had not been taking his feedings by bottle, and that was his last hurdle," said his father, Ben Byler, on Friday. "But now he is feeding regularly with the bottle and is ready to come home. He weighs nearly 7 pounds."

The sextuplets were born Sept. 1, two months premature, at Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg, each weighing between 2 pounds, 5 ounces and 3 pounds.

Byler said his wife, Karoline, hopes to have Ryan home in time for a late-morning checkup by their Tampa pediatricians, Frank Demery and Mark Biella.

"Charlie is still two to three weeks away from coming home," Ben Byler said, "but he is taking feedings by a bottle and doing well." Charlie is receiving oxygen and has a nasal breathing tube.

Steve Kornacki

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