A mother-to-be who conceived without the help of IVF is about to deliver five babies.
Alexandra Kinova beat odds of several million to one to become pregnant naturally with quintuplets.
She will give birth by Caesarean section on Sunday to the first set of ‘quins’ to be born in the Czech Republic.
The 23-year-old – who was told at first she was having twins – said she had gone into shock when scans showed in March she would have three extra little ones to look after.
‘When we finally found a fifth head I started to cry,’ she told Czech news site denik.cz.
Ms Kinova, from Milovice, said twins run in both her and her partner’s family.
She has had few problems in pregnancy – although not at all surprisingly she has to sleep on her side – and is planning to breastfeed the newborns as she did her first-born son.
Double the usual number of medical staff are set to attend the birth, when three of the babies – hidden behind the others – will be seen by their mother for the first time.
‘I very much look forward to seeing how they will look,’ she said. ‘On the scans we cannot see anything properly – only a head or legs.’
