TYRE, Lebanon: A 24-year-old woman has given birth to quintuplets at a hospital in the south Lebanon city of Tyre.
Aya Hamad and the five newborns – three girls and two boys – “are in good health,” Dr. Kamel Yassin, the director of the Jabal Amel Hospital in Tyre, told The Daily Star.
Yassin said the quintuplets, born prematurely in the seventh month and weighing between 1 and 1.3 kg, were in “stable, good condition.”
Aya, who already has a 2-year-old son from her husband Hussein Fawwaz, said she named the children Zeinab, Zahraa, Fatima, Ali and Hasan. “I’m very, very happy to have my babies delivered on the 10th day of Muharram [Ashoura],” she told The Daily Star. “I have a complete family now.”
But Aya, whose husband is a farmer from Tyre, said she would have to turn the living area into a bedroom to accommodatethe newborns since they live in a small house.
The mother said she had been expecting four children, but the fifth one came as surprise, discovered in an ultrasound a couple days earlier.
Dr. Riad Gharib, who oversaw the delivery, said Aya – who had been suffering from infertility – was receiving treatment for the past two years until she got pregnant naturally, without impregnation.
Aya called on the government to provide her with the essentials to help her raise the five children.
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