Meet the Australian woman about to give birth to quintuplets... who wouldn't have it any other way.

  

A Perth mum who is carrying quintuplets is consuming 6,000 calories a day to feed her growing brood.

At 29 weeks along, Kim Tucci, 26, is force feeding herself three times the amount of calories one person should eat in a day to reach the recommended intake.

Mrs Tucci, who is already a mum to two young girls, fell naturally pregnant with five babies while trying for a boy with her husband and has been documenting the highs and lows of her pregnancy since receiving the news.
                                             

An early photo posted to Mrs Tucci's blog when she was just 11 weeks along but her size can be compared to a mother who is almost at the end of her pregnancy

 

  

Mrs Tucci and her husband began trying for their third and final child last year with the hope of having a son to complete their family.

After finding out in July that Mrs Tucci was pregnant, the couple was ecstatic to be told by their doctor that they were having twins.

'I WAS SO EXCITED!! TWINS!!! I was excited at the possibility of twins but absolutely nothing on this earth could have prepared me for what happened next,’ Mrs Tucci said.

When she asked to use another sonogram machine so she could have a clearer view of the babies, her world was turned upside-down when the doctor found five separate heart beats.

 Mrs Tucci asked to take a second sonogram to see her babies better and doctors were shocked to find out that instead of two heartbeats, there were five

  

'My legs start [sic] to shake uncontrollably and all I can do is laugh.. The sonographer then told me the term for 5 is QUINTUPLETS!!' she continued.

'I called my husband from the ultrasound room but I don't think he believed me at first. He quickly drove down. I could see the excitement in his face he told me " We can do this".'

Mrs Tucci said it has started to kick in what a big change this will be for her family.

‘I have only just really embraced this pregnancy and what it will mean for my family, the last few days has been a reality check that it's all really happening!’

‘It's hard to accept life will change forever and my small family will be HUGE all in one hit,’ she said.