Quintuplets in stable condition

Quintuplets in stable condition

JAKARTA: Newborn quintuplets are still in incubators but are in
stable condition, according to a nurse at the Harapan Kita
maternity hospital in West Jakarta on Sunday afternoon.

"But the mother's condition is critical and she is still in
the Intensive Care Unit," the nurse, who asked not to be
identified, told The Jakarta Post.

She refused to provide any details on the condition of the
babies, saying the hospital's public relations division would
provide a media release on Monday.

The babies -- four boys and one girl -- were delivered by
Caesarean on Saturday, and each weighed more than one kilogram.

The quints are the first "child" for Mon Santoso, 55, and
Yuliana, 33, who had been trying to get pregnant for about four
years. The couple had consulted with doctors, Chinese medicinal
practitioners and traditional Indonesian healers.

Indonesia's first quintuplets were born in 1996 in Borromeus
Hospital in Bandung. The five children celebrated their eighth
birthday in October. -- JP