RAWALPINDI:
In a rarity of sorts, a woman from Chakwal gave birth to four baby girls at Holy Family Hospital on Sunday evening.
Najma Begum, 38, gave birth to the quadruplets at the Gynaecology Ward after her husband, Tauqeer Khan, brought her to the city for the delivery.
“I am happy to have had four girls and especially because my wife is doing fine,” said Khan.
However, with two girls and a boy already at home, the father of seven, who is an electrician, lamented that the medicines and different medical tests required are too expensive for him.
A doctor attending to the quadruplets said that the babies were being kept at the intensive care unit (ICU) by the Paediatric Ward as they were born underweight. All weigh less than one kilogram, whereas a normal child should weigh at least 2.5 kg at the time of birth, a doctor said.
Commenting on the birth of quadruplets, Dr Nasira Chaudhry, a gynaecologist at HFH, said the major cause of multiple births was overdosing on fertility medicines.
Talking to The Express Tribune, she said such cases needed immense care as the births are often premature. The temperature and the blood pressure of the children have to be continuously monitored by the duty doctors, she said.
“The kids are highly susceptible to different kinds of infections, as a premature baby is unable to resist infections as well as a full-term baby, the doctor said.
“The kids are being provided different fluids through nasogastric tubes to keep them growing,” said a lady doctor who was attending the babies.
The doctor further said it was too early to observe any increase in the weight of the children as they were only two days old, while adding that it could not be said with any certainty how long the babies would take to get to normal health and size.
Dr Nasira further said that if the birth was without complications, the mother would recover soon and would be able to take care of her babies.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 11th, 2012.
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Its totally up to people to have whatever number of kids they want whether they are rich or poor. Whether fertility medicines were used or not is also their own business. If they ask for donations, its again their business as other people can choose to not give donations. Why cant we mind our own businesses? Its a sweet news and the least we can do is to congratulate the couple and have warm wish these frail babies instead of being judgemental. So, best wishes for the future and may you guys have enough means and strength to raise the kids well. Aameen.
@MAD: It's none of your business. Don't poke your nose in the electrician's life. Please keep all such advices to yourself as you are not responsible for anybody else's acts. Mind your own business!! Thank you!
@MAD
Allaah Taa'alah is the provider of each and every creature not humans, nobody provided you cooked food in your mother's belly but indeed Allaah kept you alive, so its a matter of faith in Allaah alone !
I suspected it was the use of fertility medicine. So here we have an electrician who already has three kids yet is still seeking more. And now that he has four says he cant afford to raise them and will obviously seek donations. If you cant raise them than stop trying to have more.