PHOENIX (AP) -- One of the first sextuplets successfully delivered in Arizona headed home from the hospital for the first time Thursday, more than a month after being born.

Blake Masche, who is now nursing and steadily gaining weight, was released from Phoenix Children's Hospital and taken to a family member's house in Scottsdale with his mother, 32-year-old Jenny Masche.

He was expected to be joined within a week by one of his sisters and within two weeks by the rest of his siblings, said Dr. Jordan Leonard, a neonatologist at Phoenix Children's Hospital.

Leonard said one of the babies will undergo minor surgery for an intestinal problem next week.

The sextuplets, three boys and three girls, were born seven weeks premature on June 11. Doctors said they are all relatively healthy, although they'll be followed by developmental specialists.

Once all six are released, they'll go home to Lake Havasu City, where Jenny lives with her husband, Bryan Masche.

The sextuplets were born less than a day apart from a set of sextuplets in Minneapolis. Four of the Minneapolis babies have since died.

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