Bayi kembar 8 (octuplets)

Canadian Dionne sisters, seen in this 1947 photograph,
were the first quintuplets known to survive infancy.


Saya rasa amat kagum bila mendengar siaran berita sebentar tadi berkaitan dengan saorang ibu di India yang selamat melahirkan anak seramai 8 orang. Kelapan lapan anak ini dilahirkan secara 'caeserian operation' dan 9 minggu premature. Lima orang bayi dilahirkan sehat dan 3 orang lagi terpaksa dikawal dalam kotak oxygen.

Dari semakan melalui Wikipedia, saya dapati fakta2 berikut:

"The most common form of human multiple birth is twins (two babies), but cases of higher orders up to octuplets (eight babies) have been recorded with all siblings being born alive. The largest set in which all members survived more than a few days is septuplets, the first of which was in 1997. The largest set to have even a single member survive is octuplets, in 1998 (with the seven surviving octuplets born in Texas). A second set of octuplets were born in January 2009.[1][2]

There have been a few sets of nonuplets (nine) in which a few babies were born alive, though none lived longer than a few days. There have been cases of human pregnancies that started out with ten, eleven, twelve or fifteen fetuses, but there are no known instances of live births of such high multiples in a single pregnancy. Most of these pregnancies are the result of fertility medications and assisted reproductive technology (ART), though a set of duodecaplets (twelve) was conceived spontaneously (without the aid of fertility treatments) in Argentina in 1992.

The Dilley sextuplets (four boys and two girls) were born on May 25, 1993 to Becki and Keith Dilley of Decatur, Indiana. They were conceived with the help of the fertility drug Pergonal.



Dengan bantuan drug Pergonal, saorang ibu boleh mengandung dan melahirkan ramai anak sekali gus. Mungkin cara ini sangat terbaik bagi seorang ibu untuk hanya mengandung sekali sahaja dalam hidupnya dan merancang jumlah anak yang mereka inginkan.