Mexican woman is expecting nine after giving birth to triplets

 
Gerard Couzens27 April 2012

A Mexican woman could make medical history by giving birth to nonuplets less than a year after she became mother to triplets.

Karla Perez, 32, is scheduled to give birth by Caesarean section on May 20 when she is seven months pregnant.

Doctors have told her she is carrying six girls and three boys. She is thought to have become pregnant two weeks after giving birth to Casandra, Daniela and Bernardo by Caesarean section on November 4 last year.

Ms Perez, who lives in the northern state of Coahuila, also has a four-year-old son, Braulio. All four children and the nine she is carrying are understood to have been conceived naturally.

The mayor of their home town has promised to help with hospital fees and state governors have provided a specialist doctor for the pregnancy.

Ms Perez told a newspaper: “I feel like I’ve been blessed by a miracle. I’m nervous but very happy. My Caesarean is scheduled for May 20 but the doctors have told me I must try to hold on for another month so the babies can grow stronger and don’t have to spend so much time in incubators.

“I haven’t got round to thinking about names yet, I’m just concentrating for the moment on making sure everything turns out okay.

"We’re confident it will, although I’m having sleepless nights thinking about how I’m going to buy things like milk, nappies and clothes for the babies when they are born.

“We don’t have private medical care or social security and my husband only earns money intermittently.”

Ernesto Valdes, mayor of Villa de Arteaga where the couple live, has pledged to help them. His wife Laura has befriended Mrs Perez and is helping to look after her four children.

Five boys and four girls born in Malaysia in March 1999 to Zurina Mat Saad survived for less than six hours.

Single mother Nadya Suleman, 36, gave birth to octuplets in California in January 2009 after IVF. The six boys and two girls are the longest-living octuplets in known history.

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