Abha septuplets and total infant survival

Following the use of multiple fertility-enhancing drugs, a Saudi mother gav e birth to a set of septuplets on the 14th of January 1998 at a gestational age of 32 weeks. All the infants (4 boys and 3 girls), are now 8 months ol d and healthy at the time of reporting. This is the first set of septuplets in Saudi Arabia, and the 2nd in the world known to have survived. High-ord er pregnancies and births are fraught with medical and socio-economic diffi culties; caution should, therefore, be maintained in the use of fertility d rugs.