A Polish-British couple has welcomed five children at once in the southern Polish city of Krakow.
Before welcoming their fresh set of children, the couple already had seven children and were looking at having an eighth child but the pregnancy turned out to be quintuplets.
The mother, identified as Dominika Clarke gave birth at a hospital in the southern Polish city of Krakow on Sunday. The babies were delivered by caesarean section at 29 weeks and still require respiratory support.
Speaking to reporters at the hospital on Tuesday, the new mother who was in the company of her British husband, Vince said: “We were planning to have an eighth child but there turned out to be more.”
According to her, she felt “better than expected” after the rare pregnancy.
Speaking further, she called her pregnancy a miracle because the odds of conceiving quintuplets were one in 52 million.
“As a mathematician, I like these kinds of statistics,” Clarke said.
“We had a greater chance of winning the lottery than having this crowd.”
Head of the neonatology department in hospital, Ryszard Lauterbach said they look forward to joyfully discharging the mother and the children.
“We hope that we can arrive at the joyful moment of discharging them from the hospital,” said Lauterbach.
The children, three girls, and two boys, were named Arianna Daisy, Charles Patrick, Elizabeth May, Evangeline Rose, and Henry James.
