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Berlin’s Charité Says Quintuplets Born at 28 Weeks Are Thriving

The rare delivery drew a 25-member team, with the infants still receiving neonatal care.

Overview

  • Two girls and three boys were delivered by Caesarean section at the end of September in Charité’s obstetrics clinic.
  • The babies have more than doubled their birth weight and will go home once they are strong enough.
  • Neonatology provided immediate intensive care after birth and continues close monitoring of the preterm newborns.
  • Clinic leaders describe quintuplet births as a medical rarity, with natural occurrences estimated at about one in 50 million pregnancies.
  • The mother says the family is well and praises the care at Germany’s largest obstetric center.