West Seneca family welcomes rare quintuplets at Golisano Children’s Hospital

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Jessica and John Lottbrein of West Seneca already had two young daughters and were hoping to grow their family by one more. But during Jessica’s first ultrasound, they learned she was pregnant with five babies.

“First finding out, I had a full blown panic attack, and I think John also went into a state of shock too,” Jessica Lottbrein said. “But when I was panicking saying, ‘What are we going to do,’ he was like, ‘We’ll figure it out.’”

Quintuplet pregnancies are incredibly rare and considered high-risk. According to doctors at Golisano Children’s Hospital of Buffalo, this delivery marks only the second time quintuplets have been born in Buffalo’s history…

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