Mother of quins not yet stable

Mother of quins not yet stable

The mother of the Indonesia's newborn quintuplets, 33-year-old
Yuliana, was still in an unstable condition due to high blood
pressure, a hospital official said on Tuesday.

Laksmi, the public relations officer for the Harapan Kita
Hospital, West Jakarta, said that the quintuplets, who were born
last Saturday, were all doing well.

"But the mother's blood pressure was up today," she told The
Jakarta Post, adding that the father of the country's second set
of quintuplets, Mon Santoso, 55, was staying with his wife in her
hospital room.

Yuliana has been removed from the Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
where she was taken soon after delivering the babies -- four boys
and a girl -- to the Melati VIP Maternity Ward on Monday
afternoon.

Laksmi implied that the publicity and media attention had
prevented Yuliana from fully recuperating.

She said that her blood pressure had soared after reporters
forced there way into her room in an effort to interview the
father. "The parents, as well as the doctors, filed a complaint
with the hospital management earlier today."

The rare multiple birth has made headlines around the country
over the last few days, a rerun of what happened when the
country's first set of quintuplets were born in the St. Borromeus
Hospital in Bandung, West Java, in 1996. The Bandung quins
survived and celebrated their sixth birthday last October.

The latest set of quins were reportedly delivered one minute
apart by Caesarean section and each weighed more than 1 kilogram.
This was somewhat light in comparison to most quintuplet births
around the world.

The hospital management will hold a media conference later
this week before the family leave the hospital.-- JP