Hefzibah Sharvit, a 37-year-old mother of four children, from Petah Tikva, entered a local maternity hospital yesterday and within hours found herself the mother of nine children when she gave birth to quintuplets.
Mrs. Sharvit, in her seventh month of pregnancy, called the hospital to complain that she was feeling queasy. An examination showed that she was carrying quintuplets and while further tests were being conducted she went into labor. Doctors performed a Caeserian operation and reported afterwards that the three male and two female babies were all doing well.
While the operation was taking place, her school teacher husband who is Orthodox stood outside the operating room reciting Psalms. After the babies were delivered the father said: “Thank God, he will provide.”
Doctors said Mrs. Sharvit had received hormone treatments after she failed to conceive following the birth of her now eight-year-old son. Her other children are aged 12, 14 and 16.
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