A case that occurs once in 700,000 cases occurred in the last hours in the new provincial Maternity Hospital of the City of Cordobawhen a mother gave birth to quadruplets that were created without any system of Assisted reproduction.
The 42-year-old woman, along with her husband, are from Chubut shortly after becoming pregnant. They decided to move to the city of cordoba for better monitoring with a medical team at the health center where the three girls and one boy were finally born. It should be noted that the family already had four girls, so the family grew to ten members: the parents, seven girls and one boy.
The newborns are Laura (who weighed 1,300 kilos), Angeline (1,425 kilos), Victoria (1,370 kilos) and Jonás (1,675 kilos), who joined the four little sisters and now the family has grown to 10 members.
Medical director Luis Ahumada assured local media that this type of pregnancy is unusual and that he had never seen this type of pregnancy that occurred without any surgical procedure. Assisted reproduction throughout his professional career.
Ahumada also said that the family was originally from Trelew and that they settled in the city of cordoba when they found out about the multifetal pregnancy. In addition, he indicated that to accompany the pregnancy, special logistics were put together, which included obstetricians, neonatologists, anesthetists, and nursing.
As he specified, the quadruplets They were born in the 30th week of pregnancy and the mother underwent a cesarean section. “The incidence is 1 in 700 thousand births, this would mean that in Maternity we would see 1 every 100 or 120 thousand years without assisted reproduction techniques,” he told Canal El Doce.
The four babies, being premature, are in intensive care, but their health is good. In addition, he specified that the three girls shared a placenta, each with an amniotic sac, and the boy had his own placenta.
“Very nice news, especially because the situation is being resolved well. We had some scares, because it seemed like they were going to be born very premature. But luckily we were able to reach 30 weeks and at this time. Even though they are on a respirator, the medical situation is manageable,” said the director of the new Provincial Maternity Hospital.
