Luxor, Egypt - A 27-year-old Egyptian woman gave birth to sextuplets on Sunday, hospital sources said. Zeinab Mansour, from southern Egypt, delivered the two boys and four girls by Caesarean section at the Asiut Educational Hospital, south of Cairo. The procedure lasted two hours.
Mansour was rushed to the hospital after suffering pregnancy complications five days earlier. After examining her, doctors informed Mansour she was carrying six babies and not one as she and her supervising doctor had believed.
Mansour and her husband had been trying to conceive for a few years. She was on medication to stimulate her ovulation cycle when she became pregnant.
The babies were born eight weeks premature but were in a good health, according to Safwat Abdel-Radi, head of the medical team attending to Mansour and her offspring.
Mansour's husband, a young lawyer, said he and his wife are delighted. "But we will not have any more babies; this one time is enough," he added laughing.
