The journey of becoming pregnant and giving birth is always enchanting and enigmatic. Not only can regular births occur, but exceptionally ᴜпᴜѕᴜаɩ births always саtсһ even medісаɩ professionals off ɡᴜагd.
The South Yorkshire couple Christine and Justin Clark’s identical quadruplets ѕtᴜппed the entire British medісаɩ community in 2013.
The couple happily welcomed the birth of four baby girls after 10 years of waiting.
Christine and Justin tried to conceive naturally for 9 years but failed. In 2012, the two decided to undergo in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment. A single embryo was implanted into Christine’s uterus and three weeks later, she happily received the news that she was pregnant.
Throughout her pregnancy, Christine was not only tired of being pregnant with quadruplets but also miserable due to severe morning sickness.
At 27 weeks, four baby girls, Darcy, Caroline, Elisha and Alexis, were born on March 25, 2013 through a cesarean section at Jessop hospital. The total weight of all 4 is just over 4kg.
This is the first case of four fetuses with the same embryo in the UK.
“When I found out I had 4 children, I was truly speechless. We had hoped for many years to have just one child, but now we have 4 ,” Christine choked up.
Besides the happiness of welcoming their child after many years, she and her husband are also very proud because their children are extremely rare.
“My children are the first case of fraternal quadruplets in the UK. During the cesarean section, the doctor saw two placentas, so he wasn’t sure if they were two identical twins or one identical triplets and one fraternal baby. Until The children were 12 weeks old, the doctor did a test to check and was extremely surprised to see the results ,” Justin shared.
4 babies were born at 27 weeks with a total weight of more than 4kg.
Mr. Adel Shaker, director of Christine’s fertility center, said: “I have been doing IVF for more than 20 years but this is the first time I have seen a case of 4 pregnancies from one embryo. We only transferred 1 embryo but and have 4 beautiful baby girls.”
Due to multiple pregnancies and premature births, when they were born, the babies had to stay in the special care room for many months. But now, after 5 years, all four are growing healthy and extremely adorable.
After 5 years, all 4 are growing healthy and lovely.
Although life as a mother of four children faces many hardships, for Christine, this is still the greatest luck in her life.
Originally thinking that she would have difficulty having children because of polycystic ovary disease, Ms. Kieu Thi did not expect that she would not only have children but also have 4 beautiful, adorable babies…
