A 23-year-old woman gave birth to naturally-conceived
quintuplets in Prague on Sunday. Officials say it’s the first time in Czech
Republic history that such a birth has occurred.
It
took doctors at the Prague’s Institute for the Care of Mother and Child just
under two hours to deliver the five babies “without any complications”, BBC
News reports. The boys’ names are reportedly Deniel, Michael, Alex and Martin,
while the girl is called Terezka.
Their mother, who is from the town of
Milovice, about 20km (12 miles) north-east of the capital, Prague, already had
one son. She originally believed she was pregnant with twins, but in March
doctors upped it to four – and then five in April. The father of the children
said: “I was crying all the way since I feared I would not manage it,” “They
are beautiful, but they look quite alike, I hope this will change. They cried a
lot, and I’m glad they’re in good shape.” According to Dr. Stranak, the
quintuplets have a 95% chance of growing up healthy. Another doctor put the
odds of giving birth to naturally-conceived quintuplets at 48 million to one.
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