.:. Septuplet .:.

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Saya tertarik dengan berita ini. Lebih2 lagi ia berlaku di 'kampung' halaman saya sekarang. Bace dulu laporan kat bawah ni kalau belum tahu lagi. Ulasan ringkas saya di akhir post.


A 27-year-old Egyptian woman gave birth to septuplets early Saturday in the coastal city of Alexandria, family members and the hospital director said.

Ghazala Khamis was in good condition after having a blood transfusion during her Caesarean section due to bleeding, said Emad Darwish, director of the El-Shatbi Hospital where she gave birth.

The newborns, four boys and three girls, weigh between 3.2 pounds and 6.17 pounds and are in stable condition, Darwish said. They have been placed in incubators in four different hospitals that have special premature baby units, he said.

"This is a very rare pregnancy something I have never witnessed over my past 33 years in this profession," Darwish told The Associated Press by phone from the hospital.

Darwish decided to carry out the Caesarean section at the end of Khamis' eighth month of pregnancy due to the pressure on her kidneys. He said Khamis, who already has three daughters, took fertility drugs in an effort to have a son.

Khamis, the wife of a farmer in the northern Egyptian province of Beheira, was admitted to the hospital two months earlier, Darwish said.

"From the initial checkup, I say that none of the babies have any sort of deformities or incomplete organs," Darwish said.

The woman's brother, Khamis Khamis, said even though his sister was trying to conceive more children so she could have a son, the family was astonished when they found out she would give birth to multiple babies.

"We thought about an abortion, but then we felt it's religiously forbidden. So we said 'Let God's will prevail,'" he told the AP by phone.

Egypt's health minister announced that the seven babies will receive free milk and diapers for two years, the brother added.

Setakat ni utk topik embryology dalam subjek anatomy saya hanya belajar perkembangan janin dalam first trimester sahaja (3 bulan pertama) ataupun General Embryology. Iaitu dari menstruation (haidh), ovulation (penghasilan ovum) sehinggalah gastrulation (pembentukan 3 lapisan embrio ~ ectoderm, mesoderm dan endoderm) dan sebagainya. Berdasarkan keterangan dari artikel di atas, punca berlakunya fenomena 'septuplet' ni disebabkan si Ibu telah menjalani rawatan kesuburan utk mendptkan anak lelaki. Memang telah terbukti bahawa ubat2 rawatan kesuburan ini memang akan memberi kesan pada kaum ibu yg mengambilnya. Satu kajian menyatakan bahawa sebanyak 35% kehamilan daripada wanita2 yg mengambil rawatan kesuburan ini menghasilkan lebih dari seorang anak. Namun utk kes 'septuplet' ni mungkin samada si Ibu mengambil dos yg banyak atau ia adalah sememangnya rezeki dari Allah.

Walaupun mungkin kebarangkalian utk mendapatkan anak yg 'terlalu ramai' adalah kecil, rawatan kesuburan perlulah sentiasa di bawah pengawasan doktor pakar dan tidak diambil sesuka hati. Wah2, macam pakar sakit puan lah pulak! ... Nope, this is not my favourite field, just want to share my little knowledge and enthusiasm about this very rarely case.

Cerita pasal abortion (keguguran) pula, Islam ada garis panduannya yang tersendiri dalam menentukan hukum utk melakukan pengguguran kandungan. Kebanyakannya dirujuk pada hadith Rasulullah s.a.w. berkaitan penciptaan manusia yg dibukukan oleh Imam Nawawi dlm kitab Hadith 40 nya (Hadith ke-4). Untuk bacaan lebih lanjut berkaitan hukum menggugurkan kandungan bolehlah rujuk ke sini dan sini.

p/s : Esok nak balik Alex, mane tau ade rezeki boleh jumpe dengan baby2 bertuah tu. Hospital Shatby tu pulak mungkin jadi hospital utk clinical round mase paediatrics nnt kots. Bile tu? ... 3-4 thn lagi insya Allah. Nak tahu lebih lanjut, gunekanlah mr google yg setia itu. ;)

Wassalam ...