Mom Set Record When She Welcomed Healthy Quintuplets Who Are Now Grown & Flourishing

Sep 25, 2023 by apost team

Planning a family is extremely important nowadays when the costs of living and raising children have skyrocketed. So when Oksana Kobletskaya from Odesa, Ukraine, and her husband Sergey met, they agreed to only have two children since that was the number they could afford to raise comfortably. The couple, who already had a 3-year-old daughter, decided to expand their little family with one more baby, but the events that followed shook them. 

When Oksana became pregnant again at 36, she and Sergey were happy until they found out that they would be having more than one baby. 

“None of our families had ever had twins,” Oksana said. “I was sure that I would never experience something like that.” 

However, there was an even bigger surprise coming for the couple. Oksana had gone to the hospital for a routine ultrasound scan and noticed that the attending doctor looked perturbed. She said: 

“When I saw the shock on the doctor’s face, my heart stopped for a moment. Then I heard her murmur, ‘You deserve a house on a lake for this...’”

The doctor’s reason became apparent when she turned to the expectant mother. The doctor gave her diagnosis: 

“I can clearly see five fetuses,” she said. “Maybe six... Hard to say.”

The news of the strange phenomenon soon went around the hospital. It turned out that none of the doctors had witnessed such a thing before. Oksana and her husband were shocked, and rightly so. 

“I felt like I was dreaming – like a nightmare. I was waiting to wake up at any moment,” Oksana recalled. 

The couple realized that they had to change their future plans entirely. 

“It was hard to believe,” Sergey said. “It takes time to digest such news. I mean, how can someone manage to take care of so many children?”

The mom of six reported to the hospital when she was 30 weeks pregnant and her contractions started. Eight doctors received her and performed a cesarean section on her. 

“They treated me like I was made of porcelain; they were extremely careful,” Oksana said.

She delivered five babies, three boys and two girls, who were all healthy and safe on June 24, 2016. Although the doctors had prepared for any eventuality during the surgery, there was no need for any emergency procedures. The couple named their babies Daria, Alexandra, Denis, Vladislav, and David. They were discharged once they weighed 2kg (about 4.4 pounds), according to the Mirror. 

Quintuplets are rare, with one birth appearing in 55 million births. Meanwhile, according to the Mirror, Oksana and Sergey’s quintuplets are the first ones to have been birthed in Ukraine. Luckily, the couple who were worried about raising six children instead of five received much help in the hospital as strangers who heard the news via the media volunteered to help. The local government also presented the family with a large house to accommodate them. Oksana’s mom, Olga, also helped with the babies. 

However, the family relocated to Portugal to live as refugees when the war in Ukraine broke out. 

Nevertheless, the mom of five keeps fans up to date about the twins on her Facebook and Instagram accounts. 

The quotes in this story were translated from German to English by the Apost team. 

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