After being childless for 18 years, a 42-year-old Nigerian woman gave birth to five children on April 17 at Kogi.
“It is not easy to have five children at once,” Okeigbo told to NAN.
The babies were conceived through in-vitro fertilization. ”After going through all their investigations, I saw that they would need to be assisted, that spontaneous pregnancy medically speaking might not be achievable, and I advised them to be assisted,” said Dr. Grace Ogoke, a consultant, obstetrician, and gynecologist at FMC.
The babies were delivered through a cesarean section. There were three boys and two girls, weighing 2 pounds 14 ounces, 3 pounds 5 ounces, 3 pounds 12 ounces, 3 pounds 15 ounces, and 4 pounds 3 ounces, respectively.
Ogoke said that the baby with the least weight is under observation in an incubator because it weighed less than three pounds.
James Okeigbo, who is an employee of a private establishment, described it as the happiest moment of their lives and sought help from the government and the public to take care of his five babies.
Ogoke said this is the first time she delivered quintuplets. “I feel very happy and I give glory to God for seeing us through because it was like all of us were pregnant during the pregnancy,” she said.
In another case, a 25-year-old Iraqi woman gave birth naturally to six girls and a boy in February this year.
The local health department issued a statement about the birth, saying the mother and seven infants are perfectly healthy.
The father, Youssef Fadl, said he and his wife weren’t planning to expand their family, and now they have 10 children, the Mail reported.
Photos posted online show the small babies next to one another in the hospital.
Other photos show the newborns lying together after birth.
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Meanwhile, in 1997, septuplets were born in Iowa to Kenny and Bobbi McCaughey. They were the world’s first surviving septuplets.“I honestly think it will be good for all of us to be on our separate ways,” Kenny, another sibling, said at the time.
“I am not worried about not seeing everyone that much. We have been around each other the past 18 years. I am ready to be on my way, and I think everyone else is, too.”
Brandon, another one, said at the time he’s going to the U.S. Army.
“It will be a little different being without all my siblings,” he told the news outlet. “But it won’t be bad since I’ll have contact with them. I think I will have a good experience being on my own, with my new military family. I have been taught to work for the things I want, and to not expect others to do anything for me. That helps with military life because I will need to do everything on my own, with no help at all from others.”
“The pregnancy has captured worldwide attention as both a symbol of the ultimate scientific miracle and a cautionary example of the unwanted consequences of fertility treatments,” the Times reported at the time.
