Hospital: Quadruplets born to 65-year-old doing well

Doctors say quadruplets born prematurely a month ago to a 65-year-old woman in Germany are doing well and gaining weight but one remains on a respirator.

Berlin’s Charite hospital said yesterday the four babies — a girl named Neeta and three boys named Dries, Bence and Fjonn — have put on 30 to 50 per cent of their birth weights since they were delivered by cesarean section on May 19.

The hospital said one still needs help breathing. Annegret Raunigk is believed to be the oldest woman to have ever delivered quadruplets. The retired schoolteacher already has 13 other children.