US septuplets born in three minutes
A woman was in good condition today after giving birth to septuplets - five boys and two girls - at a Washington hospital.
Paula Faria, a spokeswoman at Georgetown University Hospital, said the seven babies were delivered by Caesarean section in three minutes today.
The babies are in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit. The mother, who has requested anonymity, is resting in good condition.
’’Everything seems pretty calm. That’s all I can say,’’ Faria said.
The births involved the efforts of more than two dozen doctors, nurses and other medical professionals.
There are only two other sets of surviving septuplets in the world, one delivered in 1998 to a woman in Saudi Arabia and the other delivered during the same year to a woman in Iowa.
