US woman gives birth to sextuplets
A 32-year-old woman has given birth to sextuplets in the US state of Arizona.
Jenny Masche gave birth by Caesarean section to three boys and three girls, the first surviving sextuplet birth in the state, officials at Phoenix’s Banner Good Samaritan Hospital said.
“We anticipated all possible problems, and they didn’t happen,” John Elliott, one of three doctors who delivered the babies, said in a statement. “This delivery (was) as good as you could possibly draw up. I wouldn’t have changed a thing.”
The Masche sextuplets were born prematurely after 30 weeks and four days. All but one weighed less than 1.4 kg.
New father Bryan Masche said in an interview with The Associated Press last week that the couple was terrified when they learned in December they were going to have six babies.
The couple had tried for years to conceive naturally before turning to artificial insemination, he said.
“We’re blessed and excited,” he said. “I keep coming back to the Bible verse that says ‘God will never leave or forsake us’.”
The chances of spontaneously conceiving sextuplets is one in 4.7 billion, although the odds change significantly when fertilisation treatment is used, said Dr Helain Landy, the chair of Georgetown University Hospital’s Obstetrics and Gynecology Department.
AP
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