Quadruplets born to paralysed woman

A paralysed woman has given birth to quadruplets, with the help of her 13-year-old stepson. Life Flora Clinic marketing and communications co-ordinator, Roanne Peters confirmed that a woman, reportedly Chantal Emery (34), is currently in care at Life Flora Clinic for having carried out the momentous feat. According to the SABC Emery is paralysed from the waist down, and was supposed to give birth to three boys on 27 September.

But four little boys in her tummy had other ideas. SABC reported that Emery, who cannot feel anything from her waist down and who uses a wheelchair, was at home when she felt that she needed the toilet. “Well I could not feel the contractions, and the night before I wet my bed and I thought it’s because I’m in a wheelchair I can’t feel when I need to go to the toilet,” she told SABC. “So I put on a nappy just to make sure that I won’t wet the bed again and then when I went to the bathroom the next morning, I didn’t feel like myself. And at about 9.45am I went to the bathroom and I took the nappy off and there was a baby on the nappy.”

Emery called to her stepson Joshua Binns, who helped her deliver the first three babies. Binns described the situation to the SABC, “I looked down and there’s the baby and we are trying to get the nappy off and the baby is busy crying and struggling to breathe. It sounded like a blocked nose and then the next two came. The one slides down towards the wall and the other one is just hanging there. It was scary and I didn’t want to touch them because they were so small.” Emery was then rushed to hospital, where the fourth baby was born naturally. The babies have to remain in the incubator for treatment for the next three months.