The mother, identified by her surname Chen,
welcomed her twin daughters on February 28
after having given birth to her son on February
21, according to People’s Daily Online. The rare
feat, which surprised her obstetrician, occurred in
the city of Yichang, China’s Hubei Province,
according to the People’s Daily article, which
cited China News.
The woman, whose age is not specified, married
in 2012 and had trouble conceiving. With the
help of fertility treatment, Chen managed get
pregnant with triplets in August 2016. On
February 21, Chen, who was just over 30 weeks
pregnant, went into labour.
Her water broke in the morning and she was
taken to the No.1 People’s Hospital of Yichang.
She gave birth prematurely to a boy, weighing
3lb 3oz (1.44kg), at around 2pm through a
natural birth.
However after her baby son was delivered,
Chen’s contraction suddenly stopped. Chen
Aihua, the head obstetrician, decided it was safer
for the twin girls to remain in their mother’s
womb. The mother went into labour again at
around 10pm on February 27. Her twin daughters
were successfully delivered through a natural
birth on February 28.
Chinese media did not report how much the baby
girls weighed or the exact time of their birth.
Obstetrician Chen Aihua explained how the three
babies could have been born seven days apart.
Chen was pregnant with dichorionic triplets,
which means two of the babies share a placenta
and chorion and the other is separate.
Chen Aihua said the two baby girls had shared
one placenta while the baby boy had had his
own placenta. The obstetrician added: ‘I have been
a doctor for more than 20 years. This is the first time I
have seen someone going into labour twice with a
six-day interval.’
As all of the three babies are premature and
suffer from low birth weight. They are currently
being observed at the neonatal care unit.
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