A woman from Villa Mella has given birth to sextuplets in Plaza de la Salud. Maxima Perez, who suffers from sickle-cell anemia and already has a five-year-old girl, gave birth by Caesarian section to three boys and three girls at 1 pm on Monday, 26 December. Diario Libre reports that the babies are one and a half months premature, and weighed between 120 and 800 grams. Due to her health condition, the mother had received two blood transfusions during her pregnancy. According to Dr. Jou Fernandez, the babies are in good health. The medical center will provide special assistance for the children for some time as the mother is from a low-income family. A bulletin informing of the babies’ and mother’s condition will be released at 10am today by the physicians who performed the surgery. This is reportedly the first time that sextuplets have been born in the DR, according to Dr. Fernandez.
El Caribe reports that only one of the babies needed to be put on a respirator. All the babies are under observation and continuous monitoring.