Story highlights Three girls and three boys born in mid-May

Each of the sextuplets weighed under 3-pounds

(CNN) This birth announcement won't fit on your standard 5x7 greeting card.

Adeboye and Ajibola Taiwo had tried for 17 years to start a family. Now, they're the parents of sextuplets -- three boys and three girls, all in good condition and absolutely adorable.

The babies were delivered by cesarean section at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond last week.

The count

For nearly two decades, Ajibola Taiwo, a native of Western Nigeria, and her husband Adeboye had tried but failed to conceive.

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