A woman gave birth to six-fold Thursday in Strasbourg, an extremely rare event, said Saturday May 16 the Strasbourg-Hautepierre hospital, confirming information from the newspaper Les Actualités Nouvelles d'Alsace (DNA).
The newborns, five girls and a boy, were born after 24 weeks and 6 days of amenorrhea (absence of menstruation), which makes them " very premature, " it was said to the hospital, stating that the World Health Organization considers babies to be viable from 22 weeks. The pregnancy of their mother, who already had two children, came from an ovarian stimulation.
Born by caesarean section in a few minutes, between 9:04 p.m. and 9:08 p.m., these babies weigh between 630 and 730 grams. They are hospitalized in neonatal resuscitation and will spend long months in hospital.
Extremely rare
" We are very careful, it is a situation that requires all the technical expertise of the high-performance team at Hautepierre hospital ," said a medical source, stressing that 30 people had been mobilized for this extraordinary birth. " After the Covid period, these suffering teams were able to mobilize, " insisted this source.
According to it, the last birth of sixfold in France dates back to thirty years. The DNA evokes a birth of sixfold in 1988, in Normandy.
A year ago, a 29-year-old Polish woman, already the mother of a child, also gave birth to six babies in Krakow. Polish doctors had then pointed out that the birth of six-fold occurs in the world once in 4.7 billion deliveries.
