This is a story of seeing to believe. Did you know that the chances of having sextuplets are estimated at one in 4.7 billion?
That is what ensures The Woman's Hospital of Texas, (United States), on their Facebook page, proudly telling that they have attended a birth of six babies, who were born in nine minutes. And both the mother and her children are fine.
Four boys and two girls
Last Friday, between 4:50 am and 4:59 am, Thelma Chiaka gave birth to six babies at the Women's Hospital of Texas: three pairs of twins (four boys and two girls). Newborns weighed between 794 grams and 1.3 kilos. It is not specified whether the delivery was natural or by caesarean section, but they ensure that all remain in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and are in good health, just like their mother.
According to The Houston Chronicle, Thelma will call her daughters Zina and Zuriel, although she has not yet decided the name of her children.
In this image of the hospital appears the mother posing happily with the medical team.
Having sextuplets is really unusual
As this motherhood in Texas ensures, six-fold births are extremely rare, so they become news as soon as they occur, especially if all the little ones get ahead. Each time this is more common, because pregnancies by assisted reproduction are also more frequent and neonatal medicine does not stop advancing.
We talk about the rainbow sextuplets, whose evolution we can follow on their parents' Facebook page (by the way, they are already walking).
In Babies and more Rainbow sextuplets: beautiful photo of six babies who arrived after a loss Also from the Nigerian couple of Richmond, who after 17 years trying to be parents, they got it thanks to a fertility treatment and with desire multiplied by six!
The fact is so unusual that even the DKiss television channel broadcasts from February a program entitled 'Six by surprise', which follows the couple Eric and Cortney Waldrops (who already have three children) during their sixfold pregnancy, an uncommon pregnancy and which has numerous risks for both the mother and the little ones that are to come.
And that is precisely one of the controversies that have arisen about fertility treatments, which can make many embryos thrive with the dangers they pose to their health and the lives of their parents. And, if born well, the family will have to take care of six premature babies, with the extra care that it implies.
In Babies and more Parents of the world's most famous sextuplets spend 52 diapers a day (and four hours to put them on)Although there are no statements by Thelma, the happy mother of Texas, about her current state, she surely thinks (or so we imagine as mothers) that the effort has been worthwhile and worthwhile, because she has six children by her side who, Like all children, they will be filled with joy and the occasional little disgust. Don't you think the same?
Photos | The Woman's Hospital of Texas
