It will sound like a piece of strange news to some, but wonderful news to the couple. A mother gave birth to six babies—all in the space of 10 minutes—and the first was so tiny that it fit in the palm of a doctor's hand.
Quezia Romualdo's sextuplets were delivered after a C-section at 27 weeks in the hospital, following a uterine cerclage, a procedure to keep the cervix closed until the end of the pregnancy. All babies were delivered within minutes and were healthy.
Quezia and her husband, Magdiel Costa, 31, discovered they were expecting six babies as early as April. They were already parents to five-year-old Eloa, and so they renovated their home in Colatina, Brazil, to accommodate all their huge brood.
On September 7, Quezia underwent uterine cerclage, and around four weeks later she had cesarean surgery at a hospital in Colatina. A total of 32 medical professionals, including doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, nursing technicians, anesthetists, and pediatricians, were part of the team that delivered the babies on Sunday afternoon.
The woman and her husband
Ten minutes after the procedure began, doctors reported that the six children had been delivered and were all healthy. One of the doctors claimed the first baby was small enough to fit in the palm of his hand and was breathing with difficulty.
It is also believed that the children all experienced slow breathing but were all intubated and stabilized quickly. The babies have been named Theo, Matteu, Lucca, Henry, Eloa, and Mayte.
Six sisters were born in Liverpool in 1983 in what is still believed to be the only all-girl sextuplets in the world. The Walton sisters went through 11,000 nappies a year after they were born, as tiny as 2lb 5oz each.
Sarah, Hannah, Ruth, Luci, Kate, and Jennie were kept in a special baby unit for six weeks. Their mom, Janet, described their upbringing in a seven-bedroom house in Wallasey, Merseyside, as "hectic".
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