Photos/Video:South Africa woman gives birth to quadruplets without a doctor
Nurses at Vryheid Hospital in northern KZN, South Africa
have been commended for a successful delivery of quadruplets without any
complication.
The 30 year- old mother, Jabulile Sangweni from eDumbe,
delivered three girls and a boy with the help of nurse, Simphiwe Nomali
Buthelezi and her team.
Sangweni was brought in by an ambulance from home on
Thursday morning at 07:30, August 31 with labour pains. She had been
attending ante-natal classes at eDumbe mobile clinic and had no idea
that she was carrying four babies.
Sangweni said she was shocked at the birth of her four babies as she was only expecting one.
“I honestly didn’t know I was carrying four babies. I was
surprised when the nurses told me I was carrying more than one child. I
was really not expecting it. I didn’t know what to say. I was shocked,
but I’m excited now.”
She is recovering well and her four babies are receiving medical attention from the Vryheid Hospital medical team.
The first baby was male and was delivered at 08:00,
weighing 1,37kg. The second baby was delivered at 08:05, weighing
880g.The third baby was birthed at 08:10, weighing 940g and the little
girl was delivered at 08:25, weighing 1,1kg.
Describing the ordeal, the nurse, Buthelezi, who has been
highly commended said, “ When I arrived in the ward, we examined the
mother and discovered that indeed there might be more than one baby in
her. We then helped her deliver the second baby.
"We were quite surprised to learn that there was a third
baby still coming. We then helped her deliver once more. Now, according
to our training, triplets are far more common than quadruplets, so it
would have been easy to assume that the third baby was the last and that
she had had triplets. But when we checked, we discovered a fourth baby.
We were truly, truly surprised.”
KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC, Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo, said, "I would like to
congratulate and thank Ms Simphiwe Nomali Buthelezi and her team for the
sterling job. A surprise of quadruplets in a district hospital being so
well-managed is a miracle. We wish both the mother and the babies a
good life."
The MEC issued an appeal to all pregnant mothers in the
province to start ante-natal care early for optimal care of mothers and
their babies.
“It is a miracle that the mother was able to deliver the quadruplets without incident," Dr Dhlomo said
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Source: enCA
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