Grief as Kenyan Couple Loses All Five Babies Hours After Birth

A Nakuru couple that was blessed with quintuplets on Wednesday is mourning the death of all five babies.

The family confirmed that two of the babies died on Thursday morning while the other three were pronounced dead in the afternoon.

“We have received the shocking news that the babies have passed on. The family is devastated and in shock. The hospital authorities told us that two of the quintuplets had died Thursday morning, and the other three in the afternoon,” family spokesperson Monica Kinyanjui told reporters.

25-year-old Margaret Wairimu delivered five babies, four girls and one boy, through a Caesarian section at Nakuru Level V Hospital.

The babies, who were all born underweight at 25 weeks, were placed in incubators at the hospital's Margaret Kenyatta Mother and Baby Wing.

Wairimu was rushed to the facility’s theatre on Tuesday after doctors discovered that she was expecting five babies, according to medical superintendent Dr. Aisha Maina.

"She came in through the hospital's outpatient with discomfort and on checking her, the medics realized that she had multiple pregnancies," Maina said.

Her pain exceeded, forcing medics to do an emergency Caesarian Section to save the mother and babies.

"The babies were delivered at seven months and have to be incubated for survival," she added.

Wairimu’s husband Simon Ndung’u, a 28-year-old matatu driver, from Bahati in Nakuru County, had earlier pleaded for help from well-wishers to raise the children.