Doctors in Oxford have helped a woman deliver quintuplets defying the odds set out by the new mum's Russian doctors, reports claim. The 29-year-old mother gave birth to five healthy baby girls four weeks preterm on Saturday at John Radcliffe Hospital, marking the first woman to give birth to quints in the UK for five years. A team of 18 doctors and nurses assisted the birth of the sisters weighing between 1lb 13oz to 2lb 2oz by caesarean section. During the multiple pregnancy, doctors in Russia reportedly advised the mother to have selective terminations to minimise risk, however she declined. Dr Lawrence Impey, a clinical specialist in high-risk pregnancies, told the BBC: "[The] mother is recovering well and the babies are doing well." The last set of quintuplets to be born in the UK was delivered in Northern Ireland in 2002, meaning that the miracle babies are now at school age
