Touching! Kenyan Mother Loses Five Babies In One Day

According to south west hospital in the country, The Kenyan mother, Jacintah Akinyi, 30 gave birth to extremely rare naturally conceived quintuplets has lost all five babies.


Jacintah went into labor and never new she was carrying five babies on Sunday gave birth to two babies at home, who both died, before being transferred to the kisii teaching referral hospital.

Nurse manager Florence ogero said a third baby died that night, de to being underweight and suffering a condition caused by low levels of blood platelets.

She told AFP, "It was a premature delivery and the mother did not attend antenatal clinic," "The other one had severe pneumonia and from all those birth related complications, these babies have succumbed."

The multiple deliveries were diagnosed upon delivery so there was no anticipation,  she added.

Jacintah is already a mother of four children, and lost a fifth in an earlier pregnancy. There is a one in 60 million chance of a mother falling pregnant with five babies, without hormone treatment.