Indonesian woman gives birth to quintuplets

Indonesian woman gives birth to quintuplets

A 33-year-old Indonesian woman gave birth to quintuplets -- four
boys and one girl -- at the Harapan Kita Maternity Hospital in
West Jakarta on Saturday.

All the babies are healthy and the mother, identified as
Yuliani, is also in a good condition.

She gave birth to the quintuplets through Caesarean section
conducted by four doctors -- Dr. Nurwansyah, Dr. Ferdy, Dr. Rudy
and Dr. Toto.

The first boy weighed 1.578 kg, the second is 1.189 kg, the
third is 1.602 kg and the fourth is 1.405 kg while the girl
weighed 1.196 kg.

Yuliani's husband, 55-year-old Mon Sartono Widjaja, said it
had never crossed in his mind that he would one day have
quintuplets.

"After four or five years of marriage we still haven't gotten
any children. We had consulted doctors, practitioners of Chinese
medicine and traditional Indonesian healers in the hope of being
able to get children," he was quoted as saying by Antara news
agency.

Mon said he found out he was to be a father of five in the
sixth month of Yuliani's pregnancy during a check-up at the Graha
Medika Hospital, West Jakarta.

"When we learned of this, we agreed to keep it a secret," he
said. -- JP