Polish mother of 7 gives birth to quintuplets

WARSAW, Poland — A Polish mother of seven successfully gave birth to premature quintuplets, hospital officials in southern Poland said Tuesday.

The two boys and three girls were born through cesarean section Sunday, in the pregnancy’s 28th week, at the University Hospital in Krakow.

Weighing between 25 and 49 ounces, they were all put in incubators and given breathing support. Doctors said they are all doing fine, given their premature birth.

The quintuplets’ mother, Dominika Clarke, 37, told a news conference in Krakow on Tuesday that she was feeling “much better than I had expected.”

“If you have a system, a calm approach and a positive attitude, then it is possible to have a really cool life with such a large bunch of children,” she said.

Clarke and her British husband’s other children are aged between 10 months and 12 years, and include two pairs of twins.