India has lost
ten babies to
miscarriage in
one night.
Anju
Kushwaha, 28,
from the Satna
district of the
Madhya
Pradesh
province,
suffered the miscarriage 12 weeks into her
pregnancy.
She delivered nine babies late on Sunday night
before she travelled 77 miles (125K) to the nearest
hospital where she delivered the tenth infant.
Her husband Sanjay was carrying the nine wrapped
in a piece of cloth when they arrived.
Dr SK Pathak, assistant superintendent of the
hospital said: 'She delivered nine of them midway.
Obstetric and NICU team at our hospital helped her
to deliver the tenth one in the operation theatre –
all were born dead at almost 12 weeks.'
Doctors say Mrs Kushwaha experienced an extreme
form of a condition known as multifetal pregnancy,
which usually produces twins or even triplets.
However, it is also been confirmed that she
underwent fertility treatment, which maybe have
contributed to the unusually high number of
foetuses
Senior gynaecologist, Dr Sumitra Yadav said: 'It
seems that that there was no regular follow-up of
her pregnancy after IVF. At least three offspring
could have been saved by reducing the pregnancy.'
The case marks the highest number of babies in a
womb ever recorded in India, and the second
highest in the world.
In 1971, a doctor in Rome claimed to have
delivered 15 babies at once, however none of them
survived.
Sent From David Aniemeka
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