{"id":28075,"date":"2022-03-26T17:57:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T17:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/limpopo-woman-expecting-twins-finds-out-during-labour-shes-carrying-quadruplets"},"modified":"2022-03-26T18:13:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T18:13:57","slug":"limpopo-woman-expecting-twins-finds-out-during-labour-shes-carrying-quadruplets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/limpopo-woman-expecting-twins-finds-out-during-labour-shes-carrying-quadruplets","title":{"rendered":"Limpopo woman ‘expecting twins’ finds out during labour she’s carrying quadruplets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>A Limpopo woman who thought she was carrying twins got the surprise of her life when she was informed during labour that she was in fact carrying four babies.<\/p>\n

However, it was later found that one of the babies had died long before delivery.<\/p>\n

The other children were successfully delivered.<\/p>\n

Limpopo Health MEC Phophi Ramathuba said the babies were born at Letaba Hospital in Tzaneen.<\/p>\n

She said the 27-year-old woman had given birth to her first child in 2017. The woman had informed hospital staff that neither her family nor her partner’s had a history of multiple births.<\/p>\n

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According to Ramathuba, the woman had been attending antenatal clinics in Gauteng and was told that she was expecting twins.<\/p>\n

However, she never went to hospital.<\/p>\n

She later returned home to Limpopo and only went to hospital when she went into labour.<\/p>\n

Ramathuba said a sonar exam then indicated that she was carrying four babies.<\/p>\n

“She was quickly rushed to theatre for a caesarean section. Three babies were successfully extracted but it was found that one had unfortunately died in utero.”<\/p>\n

Ramathuba said the children were in the hospital’s neonatal ward and doing well. She said they weigh 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5 kilograms.<\/p>\n

“The mother is doing well and she’s in high spirits,” she said.<\/p>\n

Ramathuba was expected to visit the woman and the children on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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