Isabela woman gives birth to quadruplets

ILAGAN, Isabela – Another set of quadruplets was born in a hospital in neighboring Cagayan the other day.

The only living quadruplets are the eight-year-old, all-female identical Cerezo quadruplets – Mary Grace, Mary Jane, Mary Anne, Mary Joy – of Bagabag, Nueva Vizcaya.

Last year, a couple of quadruplet births were reported elsewhere in the country but not all of them survived.

The mother of the new quadruplets, 25-year-old Grace Lucas, a native of Naguilian town here, gave birth through Caesarian section at the Catholic Church-run Saint Paul Hospital in Tuguegarao City, Cagayan Friday night.

However, unlike the Cerezos, the newly born quadruplets are two boys and two girls.

Hospital personnel are closely monitoring the condition of the quadruplets’ mother who remains in the intensive care unit due to loss of blood.

The two baby boys, each weighing 1.3 kilograms, are still in incubators, with their sisters, heavier at 1.8 kilograms, are both in normal condition.

Bing Franco, a close aide of Gov. Grace Padaca, said the provincial government is ready to extend help to the quadruplets, whose father is a Japanese national. – Charlie Lagasca