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.