Mexican Woman Gives Birth To Sextuplets

A 38-year-old Mexican woman gave birth Wednesday to three boys and three girls.

The father, a physician, said the mother and all the children were in good health and resting in a hospital in the northern city of Monterrey.

“It’s a beautiful experience. We’re very happy and excited,” said Gerardo Garza Sepulveda, in a telephone interview from Monterrey.

There is no known world registry of sextuplets, and it is rare for a complete set to survive more than a year, said Dr. Louis G. Keith, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University Medical School and president of the Center for the Study of Multiple births.

He said the biggest problem the sextuplets must overcome is low birth weight.

Another set of sextuplets was born in Mexico City in April, but the smallest of the six died. A set of healthy sextuplets was born in Albany, N.Y., on March 22.