A 55-year-old woman has given birth to quadruplets in the Italian city of Mantua.
“We have been waiting for this moment for 15 years,” the babies’ 38 year-old father Pabla Maghar Singh said. “We are really very happy.”
The four boys, born a week ago, were named Manav, Manmeet, Roshan and Radveer. They were born two months premature, weighing between 750 and 980 grams.
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They are still at the hospital, but are doing well, the report said. The mother works for a cleaning business, while the father is a metal worker.
The chance of giving birth to quadruplets is about one in 500,000. Twins are the most common kind of multiple birth, and occur about once every 80 births. Triplets, when three children are born at the same time, are more unusual, and occur about once in 6,400 births. The highest known multiple birth is nine.
Multiple births are becoming more common. For example, in Canada multiple births have increased by 35 percent in the last 10 years.
(STAFF WRITER WITH AFP)
義大利曼圖亞市一名五十五歲的婦女順利產下四胞胎。
三十八歲的四胞胎父親帕布拉．梅格哈．辛格說：「我們盼了十五年才等到這一刻，我們真的非常開心。」
一週前出生的四名男嬰分別取名為瑪納夫、曼密特、羅杉及雷德維爾。他們早產兩個月，體重最輕的七百五十公克，最重的九百八十公克。
報導指出，他們仍需留院觀察，但健康情況良好。他們的母親任職於一間清潔公司，父親則是一名金屬工人。
產下四胞胎的機率約為五十萬分之一。雙胞胎是最常見的多胞胎，大約每八十個新生兒中才會出現一對雙胞胎；產下三胞胎的情況就更少見了，大約六千四百個新生兒中才會出現一次。已知世界最多胞胎紀錄是九胞胎。
多胞胎的情況愈來愈常見，例如：過去十年，加拿大的多胞胎嬰兒數就增加了三成五。
（法新社�翻譯：袁星塵）
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