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17-yrs after trying, Nigerian couple based in US blessed with sextuplets
A Nigerian couple based in the US Adeboye and Ajibola Taiwo who were initially expecting four kids have been blessed with sextuplets, 17-years after waiting to have babies.
According to the couple, their first ultrasound in November revealed four heartbeats but the story changed however in January during another ultrasound when they were told of two more.
Reports say a team of 40 medical professionals were on hand to help deliver the babies through c-section at VCU Medical center in Richmond, Virginia.
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The team was put through drills and resuscitation exercises ahead of the high risk birth, according to Susan Lanni, the medical director of labor and delivery at the hospital.
“A typical labour and delivery shift includes one, perhaps two premature births, usually with time in between,” Lanni said.
“We had to coordinate with our colleagues in the NICU for six premature babies to be delivered simultaneously.”
The kids: three boys and three girls weighed between 0.49 kilogramme (1 pound 10 ounces) to 0.97 kilogram (2 pounds 15 ounces) at birth.
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Abeni Adebisi
May 27, 2017 at 9:35 am
The way God works, no man can understand. He has shown the couple why he still God. Congratulations to them, especially the mother for safe delivery of all the newborns
Anita Kingsley
May 27, 2017 at 9:38 am
Yes oo.. God gave them all the babies they would have had in 17 years at once, now it is celebration galore. I’m happy for them.
Animashaun Ayodeji
May 27, 2017 at 9:36 am
Wow, this is simply amazining. They were expecting four, but they got six. They don’t need to give birth to more children, they now have more than enough.
chichi emerue
May 27, 2017 at 2:06 pm
that is why it is been said that the ways of God and the ways of man is not disame God propose man dispose
JOHNSON PETER
May 27, 2017 at 2:06 pm
Congratulations to the family, may God keep the babies and make them great
Joy Madu
May 27, 2017 at 2:09 pm
amen and amen johnson
seyi jelili
May 27, 2017 at 5:33 pm
Amen, may God do that for you too
yanju omotodun
May 27, 2017 at 2:56 pm
God works miraculously, if it were to be in Nigeria, it’s likely they lost the babies because where do we get the 40 medical professionals to congregate together to save the mother.
seyi jelili
May 27, 2017 at 5:32 pm
Nigeria is not like that, keep shut, several women have replicated that in Nigeria and both the mothers and children are alive