If the pregnancy and delivery of octillizos surprised us and created controversy about the safety of fertility treatments, we now find out a story that leaves us stunned: a Tunisian woman is pregnant with twelve babies, six boys and six girls.
It seems impossible to believe it, but if it is true and if the gestation of all babies comes to fruition, multiple birth will be a record in terms of the number of children in the same birth.
It has not transcended the method used or when the delivery will be, only "soon", but it is believed that multiple pregnancy has been the result, after several abortions, of an induction of ovulation that has overstimulated the production of ovules. A treatment that does not allow the same control as in vitro fertilization.
Experts point out that it is a viable pregnancy but involves "colossal" risks, so the mother must be extremely controlled because not only her life is at risk but that of babies who are at great risk of being born very prematurely with a low extreme weight , and to survive, carry with serious consequences.
It has also transpired that she intends to give birth naturally, but doctors see it impossible in the case of such a large number of babies in the same birth.
We will find out in a few months if indeed the mother, a teacher of Gafsa, manages to give birth to her twelve children.
Of course, it returns to the table if this type of treatment must have some limitation that prevents the gestation of more than a certain number of embryos that some specialists set in two.
