When Nomcebo Likhuleni, 30, from Mpumalanga found out she was pregnant after three months, she suspected she was carrying more than one baby because of the big bump. She alsoassumedit would be twins because there is a history of twins in both her family and the father’s family. “At the same time, I also told myself that if it was just one baby, then it was big,” she said.
Her first clinic visit, she said, brought confusion. “When I went for my first appointment, the doctors didn’t believe I was three months pregnant, they thought I was seven months.” She said she “relaxed” after the first doctor told her she was carrying twins. But when another doctor confirmed she was carrying four, she burst into tears.
“I didn’t expect that, especially because I’m unemployed.” Likhuleni is from a small village of Buyelani in Mpumalanga. Despite the high-risk nature of her pregnancy, she said the journey was relatively smooth, although physically demanding. “I was always tired, you can imagine carrying four babies,” she said.
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She attended regular check-ups every two weeks to monitor the pregnancy. The quadruplets were born prematurely via Caesarean section on April 23, the same day as her six-year-old daughter’s birthday. She gave birth to two boys and two girls.
The identical twin boys, Ompha and Omphile, shared a placenta, while the girls, Refiloe and Reneilwe, each had their own placentas. Likhuleni said she is worried about how she was going to support her big family. “I honestly don’t know how I’m going to survive with five children.
I will need a lot of help raising them. But I believe God will not give me something beyond my strength. However, I would be very grateful for any support,” she said.
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