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UK mother gives birth to sextuplets

AP | By, Belfast
May 23, 2009 08:02 AM IST

A British hospital says a mother in Northern Ireland has given birth to sextuplets.

A British hospital says a mother in Northern Ireland has given birth to sextuplets.

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The babies, four girls and two boys, are the first sextuplets born in the United Kingdom in more than 20 years.

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Neonatal consultant Dr Clifford Mayes said on Friday that the children were born through Cesarean section within five minutes of each other.

Mayes said the babies were being cared for in intensive care in Belfast.

Only about one in 4.5 million pregnancies result in cases of sextuplets. Mayes said the pregnancy wasn't the result of in vitro fertilisation.

The names of the mother and father were not released by medical staff.

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