(Image source from: Indian mother miscarries 10 babies at one go)
A 28-year-old woman from Madhya Pradesh, India, suffered a tragic miscarriage wherein she lost not one, not two, but 10 babies in one night — a medical record in India.
According to the Indo-Asian News Service, nine fetus were removed from Anju Kushwaha's womb s on late Sunday night and the tenth one was extracted in a hospital. Doctors say that all the 10 fetus were dead at 12 weeks.
It's deemed that fertility drugs have contributed to Kushwaha's 'unbelievable' conception and unusually high multiple pregnancy. According to the Business Standard, doctors at the hospital said the miscarriages followed ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome -- a complication from fertility medication.
"It seems that that there was no regular follow-up of her pregnancy after [in vitro fertilization]," Dr. Sumitra Yadav, a senior gynecologist said. "At least three offspring could have been saved by reducing the pregnancy."
While conception of 10 children at one go is little heard of, there have been other cases of doctors delivering a high number of babies in a single delivery.
A doctor in Rome claimed to have removed 15 from the womb of a 35-year-old woman in 1971.
Nadya Suleman, the "Octomom" who delivered eight babies in 2009, currently holds the Guinness World Record for most surviving children delivered in a single birth.
AW: Suchorita Dutta Choudhury