A woman in Ethiopia’s Harari Regional State has given birth to rare quintuplets after spending 12 years trying to have a child.
Bedriya Adem, 35, delivered four boys and a girl at Hiwot Fana Specialised Hospital through a Caesarean section on Tuesday evening.
Doctors at the hospital said both the mother and the babies are in good health. The newborns weighed between 1.3kg and 1.4kg at birth.
“The babies are in full health and remain under medical care together with their mother,” the hospital’s medical director, Dr Mohammed Nur Abdulahi, told the BBC on Friday.
He added that the pregnancy occurred naturally without the use of in vitro fertilisation (IVF), making the birth even more unusual.
“The chance of conceiving quintuplets naturally is extremely rare,” he said.
Bedriya described the birth of her five children as an answered prayer after years of emotional pain and disappointment.
