A deputy superintendent of police Bright Akhimien from Edo State and his wife Joyce Akhimien have welcomed a set of sextuplets – four boys and two girls – after seven years of marriage.
Mrs Akhimien, a housewife, said she did not know she was going to have six babies, but that doctors told her to prepare for multiple babies.
The couple welcomed their babies on January 12, 2021 in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
“I didn’t know exactly how many children were inside me and the sexes of the children because when we went for scan, sometimes one would cover the other so sometimes we would see two, sometimes three. The doctor just told us to prepare for multiple babies. So as they brought them out, they counted: baby one is a girl, baby two, a boy, you know till baby six! I was surprised!” Joyce told BBC Pidgin.
The couple who got married on January 11, 2014, however, lost one of the girls a day after birth.
Joyce revealed that one year after marriage they lost a baby boy one day after birth.
She said people began raising concerns in the third year of marriage such that they had to go for medical investigation.
Joyce said she was happy the first in vitro fertilization (IVF) they did proved successful.
Her husband said he didn’t take his wife seriously when she told him she was pregnant because he didn’t want to be disappointed.
“When she told me she was pregnant, I just took it as an old story. The first month passed, the second month passed, not until the third month before I became confident that God had done it, and this one has come to stay,” he said.
