Photos: Couple who have been childless for 10 years welcome quintuplets in Cross River State. The first in the State’s history

A Nigerian married couple welcomed quintuplets after ten years of childless marriage, at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, on Monday January 9th, the first ever in the history of the state.
Recounting the experience, father of the babies, Dr Edet said:

"God is never late. I have waited on for 10years for this children. We realised that God was going to bless us with something special when my wife had a scan after some months of the pregnancy. At that point, we knew she was carrying more than one baby in her womb."

He expressed happiness at the birth of the babies and said he would need support from well-meaning Nigerians and the Cross River State Government to enable them take good care of the babies.

The Cross River Government yesterday said that the babies are the first quintuplets in the state’s history.
Dr. Linda Ayade, (pictured above) the first lady of Akwa Ibom state, donated One million naira to the family of the quintuplets with an incubator for the management of the new babies.

Dr. Linda Ayade, Commissioner of Health, Dr. Inyang Asibong and the DG of the Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Betta Edu, arrived at the UCTH to witness what the hospital management says is the first of it’s kind in the facility.
Dr. Ayade revealed that she has only heard and read about how quintuplets have been delivered but has never witnessed it before. She extended the sincere congratulations of the first family to the parents of the babies and assured them that they will not abandon the babies.