Five days after birth, the clinical prognosis is still of maximum care for the three surviving quintuplets who were born in the Reynaldo Almanzar Hospital last weekend. Nonetheless, hospital director Rafael Draper and perinatologist Katy Rodriguez still hope that they can get past the highest risk period due to the fact that they have tolerated the mother’s milk, which is being fed by catheters. They say that they are monitoring the newborns 24/7 in order to be able to respond to any eventuality. In the best of cases, if the children manage to get through this critical stage, they could remain in the hospital for another month. The hospital director said that their mother, Noelia Elizabeth Duarte, is now able to go home, and they are considering releasing her today.
The doctor who monitored her pregnancy at the Luis Eduardo Aybar Hospital and who she describes as “an angel that God put in her path,” Carlos Regalado, criticized the assisted multiple conception and said that there should be procedures for assisted fertilization. Interviewed on “The Medical Prescription” (La Receta Medica) radio show the Ob-Gyn doctor said that the pregnancy was 27 weeks of a lot of tension and constant vigilance in order to obtain a happy birth. The mother gave birth on Saturday, 7 September but two, a boy and a girl, died a couple of days later.