02 October 2023 , 18:22
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A mother gave birth to six babies – all in the space of 10 minutes – and the first was so tiny the tot fit in the palm of a doctor's hand.
Quezia Romualdo's sextuplets were delivered after a C-section at 27 weeks in 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 are healthy.
Quezia and 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 renovated their home Colatina, Brazil, to accommodate all their huge brood.
Quezia has shared incredible scans of her sextuplets (Jam Press)On September 7, Quezia underwent the uterine cerclage, and around four weeks later she had the caesarean surgery at a hospital in Colatina. A total of 32 medical professionals, including doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, nursing technicians, anaesthetists and paediatricians, were part of the team which delivered the babies on Sunday afternoon.
Ten minutes after the procedure began, doctors reported 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.
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It is also believed the children all experienced slow breathing but were all intubated and stabilised quickly. The babies have been named Theo, Matteu, Lucca, Henry, Eloa and Mayte.
The couple, from Colatina, Brazil, have renovated their house to fit all the kids inside (Jam Press)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 at as tiny as 2lb 5oz each.
Sarah, Hannah, Ruth, Luci, Kate and Jennie were kept in a special baby unit for six weeks. Their mum Janet described their upbringing in a seven-bedroom house in Wallasey, Merseyside, as "hectic".