New mother of sextuplets shows off her six gorgeous babies for the first time
A mother who gave birth to six babies has shown off her adorable sextuplets for the first time.
Thelma Chiaka celebrated her first Mother’s Day as a parent by proudly showing off her three sets of twins, made up of two girls and four boys.
The babies, called Zuriel, Zina, Kamsi, Kaeto, Kachi, and Kaobi, arrived within nine minutes of each other at Houston’s Women’s Hospital of Texas in March.
Zuriel has since gone home, with the others set to be discharged from hospital in the coming weeks, so they can begin their new life together.
Chiaka told KTRK: ‘I feel blessed having such beautiful babies. Mother’s Day has been an awesome experience for me.’
She added: ‘I have always looked forward to getting pregnant, so when it came, I embraced it with all the love I have.’
The odds of having sextuplets are just one in 4.7 billion, with Chiaka now excited by the prospect of having her huge brood back at home with her.
All six youngsters weighed in at around two pounds each at birth, with Dr Ziad Haidar hailing Chiaka’s positive attitude to pregnancy and childbirth.
He said: ‘Miss Thelma, she was a champion because she kept her smile until the last minute.
‘She had her smile all over the pregnancy and it wasn’t an easy pregnancy on her, but she did wonderful.’