A Tunisian woman is said to be pregnant with 12 babies. The unnamed teacher and her husband are ecstatic about the pregnant that was achieved with fertility treatment after she suffered two miscarriages. The couple is expecting six boys and six girls, the media reported.
The husband, identified only as Marwan, is also a teacher of Arabic at a high school in their home town of Gafsa, southwest of the capital Tunis. The couples have said, it was an “amazing and wonderful miracle”.
“In the beginning we thought that my wife would give birth to twins, but more fetuses were discovered. Out joy increased with the growing number,” The Daily Telegraph quoted him as telling the local media.
The woman is about to eclipse the American “octomom,” Nadia Suleman Fertility experts have condemned the news, alleging the doctors who treated the couple are “irresponsible” and risking the health and lives of both, the mother and her babies
Simon Fisher, a fertility expert from the University of Oxford said the news of the duodecaplets was “horrendous” and the doctors involved were “irresponsible” to allow it.
“The chances of all of them surviving are extremely remote and the chance of some of them surviving without any problems is unlikely- they are likely to have significant problems”.
