Multiple Births inundate NRH

Mokenti and Race PIC: LESEDI MKHUTSHWA
Mokenti and Race PIC: LESEDI MKHUTSHWA

FRANCISTOWN: The ward for newborns at Nyangabgwe Referral Hospital (NRH)was suddenly over populated recently as doctors helped two women deliver seven infants.

The triplets and quadruplets were delivered on August 9 and 12 respectively by two different mothers. A joyful Oakantse Monkenti, 38, of Seleka village in Tswapong, contributed the triplets while Pego Race, 34, from Tonota village gave birth to quadruplets to bring the number of screams to seven on those separate but very close dates. Monkenti and Race - who are not first time mothers - already have four and six children respectively. Monkenti gave birth naturally while Race had to go through caesarean section (c-section) procedure. Coincidently, the new bundles of joy are all boys.

The Mmegi team found the mew moms unable to come to terms with their feelings, which ambulated between euphoria and angst when it paid the mothers a visit at the hospital on Wednesday afternoon.

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