Phoenix, Arizona: A 32-year-old woman in the USA has given birth to healthy sextuplets.
Jenny Masche gave birth by Caesarean section at Banner Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix on June 9 to three boys and three girls, the first surviving sextuplet birth in the state, hospital officials said.
"We anticipated all possible problems, and they didn't happen," Dr. 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."
The Masche sextuplets were born prematurely after 30 weeks and four days. All but one weighed less than 1.4 kilograms.
Dr. Jordan Leonard, who is overseeing care of the Masche sextuplets at Phoenix Children's Hospital, said the sextuplets appear to be in stable condition. "We're very pleased with how they're doing," Leonard said.
Their tiny lungs are underdeveloped, Leonard said, and five of the six were on ventilators yesterday to help them breathe. Leonard said he expects all of them to be off the breathing machines after a day.
Their father Bryan Masche, 29, 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. In addition to artificial insemination, Leonard said Jenny Masche used medication to stimulate her ovulation cycle.
.(Inputs from agency)
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