Mrs. Tova Medina, 31, who had undergone hormone treatment after being childless for seven years, today gave birth to quintuplets–three boys and two girls–at Hadassah Hospital. A hospital spokesman said the infants were in incubators and were in comparatively good health The smallest of the quints weighed about three pounds.
Doctors said it would be some time before they could say whether the infants would survive. Mrs. Medina, who was reported doing well, was seven and a half months pregnant when her labor pains began. The babies were delivered by Caesarian operation. This is the second group of quintuplets delivered in Hadassah Hospital in three years.
Mrs. Medina and her husband, Moshe, are immigrants from Morocco and reside in a two-room house in the northern Negev development town of Shderot. Moshe works as a warden in the Beersheba prison, and Tova is employed in a pharmacological laboratory in Kibbutz Bror Hail. The Medinas made no preparations for quintuplets. “We wanted to see the outcome before we did anything,” Moshe explained.
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