THE surviving five babies of the Oxfordshire sextuplets were in a stable condition and “doing well” last night, according to a spokesman for the family.

Andy and Vicky Lamb, both 31, and from Abingdon, have been mourning the loss of one of the two boys after he died at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford on Friday.

The remaining boy and his four sisters are now in a stable condition.

The babies, who have all been named, each weighed under 2lb when they were born 14 weeks early on May 14.

Denise Palmer-Davies, a spokesman for the publicist Max Clifford, said: “All the babies are stable and doing well.”

Mrs Lamb took fertility drug Clomid, which stimulates ovulation, before falling pregnant with the sextuplets.

She had taken the drug previously, before her first child Gracie, five, was conceived.

The couple have thanked staff at the JR for their efforts in looking after the sextuplets, who are receiving round-the-clock intensive care.

Medics spent weeks planning the births and a large team of doctors and nurses were involved in the delivery, which took place by caesarean section.

Consultant neonatologist Dr Kenny McCormick has said specialist care over the next few days and weeks will be critical for the babies.

Live births of sextuplets are extremely rare, occurring approximately once in every 4.5 million pregnancies.