In Chhattisgarh, a woman gave birth to Quintuplets (five babies at once), that too in just six months of pregnancy. The baby girls who were born at the district hospital in Ambikapur around 10 am on Saturday, are so tiny that they could fit in the single tray and all the body parts of the new born are fully developed.  They have been kept in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) because of their low-birth weight. The one with the lowest weight among the five is of 1 kg while the heaviest is of 1.5 kg.

The proud parents, 25-year-old Manita Kumari and her husband Mahesh are happy to have five baby girls and are praying for each child to remain alive. Manita is a house-wife and had lost her first pre-mature child after three months of her birth in 2014.

The hospital staff called them “five-star” babies and rightly so because they are probably the “most premature” quintuplets babies born in India so far.

Dr NP Pandey, chief superintendent of Ambikapur district hospital said that “Our gynaecologist’s observation says that the babies are premature and took birth in between six to seven months of pregnancy. They all have very low birth weight (LBW) and the survival of such LBW children in the best of hospitals is abysmally low.”