"GOOD HEAVENSQUADS!"

Evening Star, Issue 25994, 8 January 1947, Page 5

"GOOD HEAVENSQUADS!"

(Rec. noon.) LONDON, January 7. Mrs Peggy Thomas, aged 29, the wife of a painter, gave birth to quadruplets in the mid-Glamorgan County Hospital, Glamorganshire. The babies, two boys and two girls, are strong and doing well. " Good heavens —quads! ” said the father when informed of the birth of his children. There was no doctor present at the birth because quadruplets were not expected. Only two nurses, both aged 23, who were State registered midwives, attended the mother. Another young midwife relieved her colleagues and took charge of the babies immediately they were born. The babies weighed about 21b each, and were two months premature. They

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were born in 50 minutes after the small slight Mrs Thomas walked into the hospital. ‘‘We had the shock of our lives,” said the nurses. Four oxygen tents were rushed from the hospital at Bristol to try and keep the quads alive. They are being fed on sterilised water and glucose. A medical officer reported that the quads were gaining strength. “ There is every chance of their survival,” he said. There is only one other set of surviving quadruplets in Britain. Mr Thomas said that during the whole 11 years of his married life lie had not had a home of his own. He was at present living with a sister-in-law in a small cottage where there were already six adults and four young children.