Chinese Woman Gives Premature Birth to Rare QuadrupletsA woman in Suzhou, east China's Anhui Province, gave birth prematurely to dizygotic, or two-placenta, quadruplets on February 25.Doctors said Zhao Chunli, mother of the two boys and two girls,had two placentas and the babies were born in a boy-girl-boy-girl order. The heaviest infant weighed 1.6 kg and the lightest 1.35 kg. The mother is in good condition but the quadruplets are under close medical supervision as their gestation was only 204 days, doctors said. Medical records in China show that there is one case of triplets per every 6,000 births. Quadruplets are even more rare. The newborn pairs of boys and girls are a rare example of two-placenta quadruplets, the doctors noted. The father of the quadruplets has a twin brother who fathered twin girls. |
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