PHOTO: WOMAN, 25, GIVES BIRTH TO QUINTUPLET

25-year-old Manita Kumar who thought she was expecting one
baby went into labor two months early and gave birth to
quintuplets (five babies) all girls, on April 2 at the Civil Hospital in
Ambikapur,town of Chhhattisgartrt's Surguja district, India, the
Times of India reports .
All five babies are said to be healthy but weighed 2 or 3 pounds at
the time of their birth; underweight as compared to normal babies.
Dr. K. R. Tekam, a paediatric at the hospital said they have been
kept under the observation of doctors.
The five girls have been named: Jiya, Jjanv, Jyoti, Jigayasa, and
Janynamed. Kumar's husband Umesh told TOI he and his wife felt
"extremely blessed" to have all the children, as Manita gave birth
to a son two years ago but the child died shortly after childbirth.
The couple had not been able to afford an ultrasound this time
around and Manita felt completely normal throughout, so there
was no reason to believe she was pregnant with anything more
than one healthy child.
In a recent update, TOI said that while the mother has since been
discharged from the hospital, the babies remain in the ICU. Four
of them are suffering from jaundice and there is concern about
their size.
The parents were worried about how they were going to financially
take care of the babies and all their medical bills, but the District
Administration of Ambikapur is going to provide financial aid to
the family.
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