A 55-year-old woman whose name has not been released to the
public gave birth to four baby boys in Italy this week. Born two months premature, the
babies are in incubators at the hospital, but they are all doing well. Their
father, 38-year-old Pabla Maghar Singh, says that he and his wife are overjoyed
about the new arrivals. Financial concerns about caring for four little ones—the mother
works for a cleaning business, while the father is a metal worker—apparently could not
damper their happiness at finally having the babies they have wanted for so
long.
Italian law is not friendly to assisted fertility, so the
mother returned to her native India
for IVF treatments. Her decision is not uncommon: since the restrictive
assisted fertility law was passed in 2004, the number of Italian couples who
seek fertility treatments outside of their country has quadrupled.
The birth of Italian qraduplets to an Indian mother also reflects a nationwide fertility trend. Italy’s relatively low birth rate
reached a 16-year high of 1.35 children per mother in 2006, in large part due
to immigrant births.
And, in case you were wondering, the adorable quadruplets pictured are not the Italian ones mentioned. But I say, any chance you get to use a photo of newborn quadruplets, take it.
Photo: novelette.com
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