Czech woman pregnant with quintuplets

A Czech woman has beaten staggering odds to become pregnant with quintuplets without in-vitro-fertilisation (IVF), reported Daily Mail.

Alexandra Kinova, 23, is due to give birth by Caesarean section on Sunday to the Czech Republic's first ever set of quins.

Kinova, who already has one son, did not realize she was carrying five babies until last month.

At first doctors said she was having twins but in March, staff at the Prague Institute for the Care of Mother and Child said she was actually pregnant with four children.

However, it was not until the following month that she finally discovered she was having quintuplets.

Kinova, from Milovice, about 30km east of Prague, told Czech news site denik.cz that she was in shock when she was told.

She said, “When we finally found a fifth head, I started to cry.”

According to local media, her children will be the country's first set of quins.

The odds of conceiving quins naturally is one is several million, according to experts.

The mother said both she and her partner have a family history of twins.