In the early hours of Thursday morning, inside the delivery suite at Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, a young mother quintuplets.
“The stone in my heart has finally fallen,” said 24-year-old Dili, from Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, as a senior obstetrician from the hospital made her post-surgery ward rounds. Just hours earlier, after a relay effort by more than 20 medical staff, Dili had delivered five babies — one boy and four girls — in a rare quintuplet birth. Mother and children were safe, as reported by the Hubei Daily.
For Li Jiafu, director and chief physician of obstetrics at the hospital with nearly four decades of experience, this was the largest multiple pregnancy he had ever delivered.
Medical data shows that the probability of naturally conceived quintuplets worldwide is about one in 60 million — a statistical rarity often described as a miracle of life.
