A Polish mother will have her hands full after welcoming a set of quintuplets on Sunday.
The two boys and three girls, who were born at 29 weeks gestation, arrived by cesarean section at the University Hospital in Krakow.
Credit: Karolina Fok/Archive, The University Hospital, Krakow/www.su.krakow.pl via AP
Weighing between 710-1,400 grams (25-49 ounces,) the babies needed to be given breathing support and are in incubators doctors revealed.
Credit: Karolina Fok/Archive, The University Hospital, Krakow/www.su.krakow.pl via AP
The quintuplets’ mother, Dominika Clarke, said she was feeling “much better than I had expected.”
“If you have a system, a calm approach, and a positive attitude, then it is possible to have a really cool life with such a large bunch of children,” Clarke said during a press conference on Tuesday.
The 37-year-old mother and her British husband’s other 7 children are aged between 10 months and 12 years and include two pairs of twins.
It is believed that the babies were conceived naturally. The hospital shared that the chances of conceiving 5 children at the same time were one in 52 million.
‘We were planning to have an eighth child but there turned out to be more,’ she told reporters alongside her husband Vince.
‘We had a greater chance of winning the lottery than having this crowd. As a mathematician, I like these kinds of statistics,’ she added.
