A 23-year-old woman has given birth to quintuplets in the Czech Republic, officials say, a first for the country.
Alexandra Kinova had four
boys and a girl by caesarean section on Sunday, they say
The birth took place
"without any complications", according to doctors at Prague's
Institute for the Care of Mother and Child.
The mother and babies were
placed in an intensive care unit but are believed to be in a good condition.
The Czech Republic's first
quintuplets, who were conceived naturally without IVF, have a 95% chance of
growing up healthy, the Associated Press quoted Zbynek Stranak, chief doctor at
the neonatal section of the institute, as saying.
The boys' names are
reportedly Deniel, Michael, Alex and Martin, while the girl is called Terezka
Their mother, who is from
the town of Milovice, about 20km (12 miles) north-east of the capital, Prague,
already had one son.
She originally believed she
was pregnant with twins, but in March doctors upped it to four - and then five
in April.
The father of the
quintuplets was present at the delivery despite his train being delayed,
according to the newspaper Ceske Noviny.
"I was crying all the
way since I feared I would not manage it," he said.
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