The Polish-British parents of seven gave birth to five new babies in one fell swoop just for Valentine’s Day. The mother said Tuesday she felt “better than expected” after such a pregnancy.
Dominika Clarke, already a mother of seven children aged 10 months to 12 years, gave birth to quintuplets at a hospital in Kraków in the south of the country on Sunday.
“We were planning on having an eighth child, but it turns out there’s a lot more to come,” she told reporters along with her British husband Vince.
The babies were born via cesarean section at 29 weeks and will require respiratory support.
“We hope to reach the joyful moment of her discharge from the hospital,” said Ryszard Lauterbach, head of the Kraków Hospital’s neonatology department.
The children, three girls and two boys, are named Arianna Daisy, Charles Patrick, Elizabeth May, Evangeline Rose and Henry James.
Ms Clarke called her pregnancy a “miracle” as the hospital says there is a 1 in 52 million chance of having quintuplets.
“As a mathematician, I like this kind of statistics,” smiled Mrs. Clarke.
“We had a better chance of winning the lottery than having so many babies.