ASK those mothers out there and they will tell you how difficult it is to care for a baby.
If one is terrible enough, how about those young families with twins? The simple calculation we could perform is by doubling the trouble, of course.
But sometimes, double just isn’t enough because records are meant to be broken. Take it from this family that has not one or two, but quintuplets.
Memang jimat masa mak & bapak dorang ni kembar 5 lelaki terus
Mak dia confirm menyala dekat rumah 🔥 pic.twitter.com/dM3ittd0uU
— mhmmdhsm (@mhmmdhsm) February 27, 2025
Netizens by the numbers commented on the difficulty the couple must be experiencing in raising them.
Andre Kua said it must be tough feeding the babies. “Even to feed and help a child burp was hard. Imagine five,” she said.
“I am already making computations when buying shirts that match for two? And their parents have to buy five at once,” said another netizen.
To better illustrate the astronomical cost of raising five kids, Nikolai Starshenbaum cheekily said, “Daddy, we want five iphones.”
MID further advised that all five of them should not get married at the same time or their parents would get a headache.
However, every cloud has a silver lining as pointed out by some netizens. Michelangelo said it should be easy to form a futsal team with five children.
A few others pointed out that they could have made a boyband instead.
Netizen aliay y y y y added that the kids can share their wardrobe. “It would be a disaster for the mother and father to buy them all the same,” she said.
Away from the buzz of the cyberspace, how rare are quintuplets anyway?
According to Dr Rachael Morris, associate professor in maternal-fetal medicine at University of Mississippi Medical Center, quintuplets are exceedingly rare with a 1 out of 60 million chance of a successful pregnancy.
The National Library Of Medicine further highlighted that quintuplets’ pregnancy pose an increased risk of obstetric complications.
These range from pre-eclampsia, gestational diabetes, and fetal growth restriction. Preterm birth further exacerbates the risk of neonatal complications like respiratory distress syndrome, perinatal asphyxia, and death.
To sum it all up, it is a huge Ouch to bring the quintuplets into this world, and another huge Ouch to raise them to adulthood. —Feb 28, 2025
Main image: mhmmdhsm
