This was what drove one Australian mum, known only by the name Kim, to go for an early ultrasound last month.
Heading in for the scan on August 18, Kim suspected that she might be pregnant with twins – and she could not have been prepared for what her doctor told her next.
While, initially, sonographers picked up two heartbeats, after moving Kim on to another machine they found not two, not three, not four but five heartbeats!
Now 12 weeks pregnant, Kim and her partner had a hard time accepting that what her doctors were telling her was true.
“I was lying down, but my legs started shaking and all I could do was laugh. Then I asked them to please check again,” recalled Kim, in an interview with local media.
“I called my husband, but he didn’t believe me at first. He rushed to the ultrasound place and was so excited by the time he arrived,” she added.
Conceived naturally, each baby has its own gestational sac. The little ones were conceived when five separate eggs were fertilised. Kim, who was previously found to have endometriosis, was told by doctors that there hasn’t been an Australian case of quintuplets since the ‘80s.
Kim and her husband are already parents to two daughters, aged two and four.
