PEOPLE - Pakistani woman gives birth to SEXTUPLETS after attending clinic for a routine check-up

Pakistani woman gives birth to SEXTUPLETS after attending clinic for a routine check-up

• Woman gave birth to four girls and two boys at a private medical clinic
• Mother attended clinic for a routine appointment to see how her pregnancy was progressing only to go into labour
• Doctors say family are healthy, although they have been moved to a larger hospital for further care and observation
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By LUCY CROSSLEY

PUBLISHED: 18:47 GMT, 26 January 2014 | UPDATED: 20:57 GMT, 26 January 2014

 
 
 

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A woman in Pakistan has given birth to six healthy babies after attending a private medical clinic for a routine check-up.

The woman gave birth to four girls and two boys at the hospital in the Bannu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Doctors said the sextuplets and their mother, who has not been named, were healthy and in a stable condition after their birth on Friday. 

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Bundles of joy: A woman has given birth to six children, two boys and four girls in Pakistan

However, the family, from the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan were later moved to the Combined Military Hospital in Bannu for further observation. 

The woman had gone to the clinic for a routine appointment to see how her pregnancy was progressing, although she later gave birth to her six children.

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'The mother and her children are in stable and healthy condition,' a gynaecologist at the hospital told Dawn.com.

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Safe and sound: Doctors said the sextuplets and their mother were healthy and in a stable condition after their birth on Friday

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Drama: The woman had gone to the clinic for a routine check-up, although she later gave birth to her six children

Earlier this month, another mother gave birth to quadruplets in the Bhakkar district of Punjab, India.

In October a 35-year-old woman gave birth to quintuplets - three girls and two boys -  at Khyber Teaching Hospital in Peshawar.

That same month another woman had three boys and a girl in the Mianwalki district of Punjab.

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