WOMAN PREGNANT: With 12 babies, a new record

WELLNESS — By MainStreetMantra Desk on August 18, 2009 at 7:55 pm
PREGNANT WITH 12 BABIES

PREGNANT WITH 12 BABIES

A teacher in her 30s is pregnant with a record-breaking 12 babies, it has been reported. The Tunisian woman, who had two miscarriages earlier, is reportedly carrying six boys and six girls.

She is said to have undergone fertility treatment. British fertility experts say though such a pregnancy is possible, it is very risky. There is less than one in 100 chance of even a single baby surviving, an expert said. But the woman claims to be in good health.

‘All I want to do is be able to hug my babies and show them all my love,’ she told hospital workers in the town of Gafsa, about 250 miles south of the capital Tunis. ‘This is an absolute miracle, and we all feel blessed after struggling so hard to have children.’

Her husband, named Marwan, who teaches at the same school in Tunisia, said ‘In the beginning, we thought that my wife would give birth to twins, but more foetuses were discovered. ‘Our joy was increased with the growing number. The medical team told us that my wife would give birth naturally.’ Early labour is expected.

But British experts said that a natural birth would be impossible and warned that the strain of carrying 12 babies could lead to labour at 20 weeks – just halfway through pregnancy.
‘This woman is going to be enormous by 20 weeks. And when the uterus goes into labour there is nothing you can do about it.

Fertility doctors say it is unlikely that an IVF doctor would have agreed to implant the Tunisian woman with 12 embryos. The bumper pregnancy could be the result of fertility drugs to stimulate the ovaries.

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