Remember
how crazy it was when we found out Octomom was expecting eight babies and we wondered what in the heck it felt like to be pregnant with that many
fetuses? Yeah, well an Iraqi mom knows how she felt, because
she's reportedly pregnant with
13 babies.
An
Iraqi woman in her early 40s is pregnant with 13 infants although she has
already delivered seven including twins since she married 24 years ago.
Her husband Fadhil Al Azawi, a farmer from the central Iraqi province of Salahuddin, said medical tests and images showed his wife has 13 fetuses in her uterus although she has not been pregnant for the previous five years.
He said he married another woman in 2012 after his wife failed to get pregnant in the previous five years, adding that he is now both elated and worried.
“I am very happy about my wife’s new pregnancy but at the same time I am worried about how to look after her to preserve this heavenly gift,” he said.
“The news that my wife is pregnant with 13 infants was a big surprise to me and I am now trying to arrange special care for her as her delivery will perhaps allow me to become the world’s only father of such a big number of twins.”
Her husband Fadhil Al Azawi, a farmer from the central Iraqi province of Salahuddin, said medical tests and images showed his wife has 13 fetuses in her uterus although she has not been pregnant for the previous five years.
He said he married another woman in 2012 after his wife failed to get pregnant in the previous five years, adding that he is now both elated and worried.
“I am very happy about my wife’s new pregnancy but at the same time I am worried about how to look after her to preserve this heavenly gift,” he said.
“The news that my wife is pregnant with 13 infants was a big surprise to me and I am now trying to arrange special care for her as her delivery will perhaps allow me to become the world’s only father of such a big number of twins.”
Newspapers
quoted Dr Mikdam Al Jabouri, a specialist at Takreet hospital in Iraq, as
saying tests and images showed the woman is pregnant with 13 infants.
“Initial tests showed four of them are dead as their
hearts do not pulse…the rest appeared in good condition,” he said.
“The mother is also in good health and this is one of
the rarest pregnancy cases in history…but we expect more of them to die in
advanced pregnancy stages and that the babies who will be delivered alive will
be very small.”
How would you react if you learned you were pregnant with this many babies?
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