‘Little miracles reunited’: quintuplet back home
Published: May 29, 2005
All the quintuplets born to a 28-year-old woman three months ago are now safely back home with their parents in Surat Thani’s Wiang Sa district.
Three boys and two girls were born to Woralak Nuannok, 28, at Hat Yai hospital in Songkhla province on March 8.
Their arrival was quite amazing given that Mrs Woralak and her husband Prathan, 30 from tambon Ban Song, were given little hope of producing children after she suffered two miscarriages after ectopic pregnancies.
After meeting Dr Somnuk Ua-angkura of Hat Yai hospital, Mrs Woralak began the process of in vitro fertilisation.
She was finally able to bring the final baby home, nicknamed Nong Khlui, two weeks ago and the baby boy is said to be much improved, now weighing in at 2.5kg as opposed to just 750 grammes when delivered.
The arrival of so many babies has clearly presented a number of stiff challenges to the new parents, not least in financial terms.
Mrs Woralak said the babies had to be fed with powdered milk since she did not have sufficient breast milk to feed them all.
This required a special form of powdered milk since the babies were born prematurely. Each can costs nearly 250 baht, and the babies get through a can a day, she said.
They cost of nappies was estimated at around 15,000 baht a month, while the couple had to hire a maid to help wash the nappies.
Mr Prathan and Mrs Woralak say they share the numerous daily chores involved in taking care of the babies. Mr Prathan has left his rubber plantation in Nakhon Si Thammarat for the time being in order to help care for the babies.
Although parenting is exhausting, both said they were ecstatic as they had longed for a child for years and had nearly given up all hope of having one.
After the quintuplets hit the headlines in March, Mr Prathan said he had received more than 50 letters from couples hoping to have children. He urged them to pay a visit to Dr Somnuk at Hat Yai hospital.
Mr Prathan said that while his family was not rich, they were willing to meet the various expenses involved.
The whole process, from in vitro fertilisation through to delivery had cost the couple over 300,000 baht, but Mr Prathan said the expense was worth it.
Television producers approached his family, but he had declined the offers as he first wants his babies to gain strength.
However, he said, he could not turn away neighbours who continuously pay visits to see the five babies.
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