Woman Gives Birth To Five Babies

Five children born at once are known as quintuplets, and the odds of conceiving them are 1 in 55,000,000 births.

A woman who was given a new liver, pancreas, stomach and small and large intestine at a Miami hospital in 2007 has delivered a healthy baby girl, believed to be the first known case of a five-organ transplant patient giving birth.

A 28-year-old woman in Germany killed her five infants shortly after giving birth to them in secret at home and in the woods, and hid their bodies because she worried her husband would leave her if she had any more children, authorities said Thursday.

In a rare case, a woman in Kashmir gave birth to quintuplets -- three boys and two girls -- at a government hospital, officials said.Afroza, a resident of Larkipora village of central Kashmir's Budgam district, gave birth to the five children at the Lal Ded hospital here after a cesarean section.

Five children born at once are known as quintuplets, and the odds of conceiving them are 1 in 55,000,000 births.

A woman who was given a new liver, pancreas, stomach and small and large intestine at a Miami hospital in 2007 has delivered a healthy baby girl, believed to be the first known case of a five-organ transplant patient giving birth.

A 28-year-old woman in Germany killed her five infants shortly after giving birth to them in secret at home and in the woods, and hid their bodies because she worried her husband would leave her if she had any more children, authorities said Thursday.

In a rare case, a woman in Kashmir gave birth to quintuplets -- three boys and two girls -- at a government hospital, officials said.Afroza, a resident of Larkipora village of central Kashmir's Budgam district, gave birth to the five children at the Lal Ded hospital here after a cesarean section.