A 30-year-old Zimbabwe Prison and Correctional Services officer, Patience Muchineripi has said she is filled with boundless joy and happiness after giving birth to quadruplets in about 50 minutes last week.
The babies, three boys and one girl, were delivered by a scheduled Caesarean section at Claybank Private Hospital in Gweru last Wednesday morning under the watch of her specialist gynaecologist, Dr Johannes Mukwembi.
Muchineripi and her babies were finally discharged on Sunday.
Speaking to The Herald, Muchineripi said:
I am filled with boundless joy and happiness but I am tired now. Talk to my husband.
Her husband Anesu Mukototsi (36), also a member of the ZPCS said:
We could not have asked for a better outcome. We are so thankful for all of the doctors and the nurses. We’ve had excellent care through every step of this process.
I was the only child from my family and as fate would have it, both my parents are late. If they were here today, they would have been celebrating having five grandchildren.
These babies need special attention and we don’t have accommodation that is enough for them. I think we will also need supplementary milk and diapers to make their life comfortable.
Prison Officer Mukototsi took his wife and the babies to their lodgings in Kwekwe.
The quadruplets join their big sister who is 10 years old making them five (three boys and two girls).
Dr Mukwembi said the quadruplets were delivered at about eight months so as not to put their lives and that of their mother in danger.