An Afghan woman has given birth to six healthy slightly underweight children in the northern Provence of Mazar-e-Sharif. She was unaware she was caring more than one child and did not receive any fertility treatment. The 24 year old woman gave birth to three boys and three girls. Six babies is extremely rare without fertility treatment. The mother is well but exhausted and the babies are being kept in an incubator until they put on some weight as one of them was born at only 700g (25oz).
A survey in 2010 showed that infant mortality rate seemed to be decreasing which is a good sign as Afghanistan is continually rated as one of the most difficult countries to be a pregnant woman or small child. One in ten children die before the age of five.
Nicole LeDonne
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