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| Rare quadruplets mark birthday |
| A birthday celebration was held for four girls born as identical quadruplets at a hospital in Chennai.
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| INDIA
, 26-April-2007
3:4:7 AM |
| Identical quadruplets are a rare medical phenomenon occuring once in four million births.
Born prematurely, the girls named Aditi, Aakriti, Akshiti and Aapti, collectively weighed just 3.5 kilograms at birth.
The smallest of them was just 800 grams, but one year on they are glowing with health and keeping their young parents busy.
''Its a challenge...they cry, they laugh...ultimately when I'm so down everyday...so tired at the end of it...one smile at night...makes a big difference,'' says their mother Shruthi.
The father of the girls Vivekanandan says, ''there was a time when I had to take a call whether I had to have four kids or none at all.
''It was a conscious decision that we took that we are going to go with the four girls''
Doctors say the children offer rich potential for study into behavioural science and diseases because the four girls are genetically the same.
''Medically we can tap any kind of research from them,'' says gynaecologist R Charumathi of Apollo Hospital.
The parents are also happy to allow their children to be studied who are reportedly one of only 26 identical quadruplets in the world.
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