Sextuplets born in the Dominican Republic
A woman in the Dominican Republic has given birth to sextuplets.
The three male and three female infants were born by caesarean section on Monday to Maxima Perez, 33, and weighed about 0.9 kilograms (2 pounds) each, said Dashira Martinez, a spokeswoman for Plaza de la Salud medical centre in the capital, Santo Domingo.
The infants were under observation in an incubator, and one of the boys was being helped to breathe artificially, she added.
Perez and her husband, Emilio Figuero, 32, who already have a five-year-old daughter, had undertaken fertility treatments, Martinez said.
Fertility treatments and multiple births are increasingly frequent in the Caribbean nation of 8.8 million people.
In November, 22-year-old Lisbel Binet Ventura gave birth to quadruplets, two of whom later died.
