Fourlings of the 65-year-old mother have developed well

The quadruplets of 65-year-old Annegret Raunigk may be allowed to leave the hospital soon. This reports the news agency "dpa", citing the Berlin Charité. Accordingly, the children would have developed so well that a dismissal in a few weeks is conceivable. Annegret R. had the three boys and a girl born at the end of May - 15 weeks before the calculated date of birth - by caesarean section and triggered a fierce debate on maternity and reproductive medicine.

Children at birth between 655 to 960 grams easily
Neeta, Dries, Bence and Fjonn: The four babies of Annegret R. may soon be released home. "They are doing well in the circumstances," reported a spokeswoman for the Charité on Wednesdays opposite the "dpa". Thus, the children would have developed well and could therefore possibly in the next few weeks home. The children were born at the end of May with only 655 to 960 grams and a size of only 30 to 35 centimeters in the 26th week of pregnancy and have since been raised and monitored in the Charité.

Embryo Protection Act prohibits egg donation in Germany
The story of 65-year-old Annegret Raunigk has caused a sensation from the beginning and sparked a heated debate over the age at which pregnancy is medically and ethically acceptable. Because in order to get pregnant again, the already 13-fold mother and seven-time grandmother had traveled to the Ukraine and had there implanted embryos produced from egg and sperm donations in the laboratory. Many physicians criticized the action, because in Germany egg donations are prohibited by the Embryo Protection Act. According to the 1989 Law (Bundestag Printed Paper11 / 5460), the ban on the protection of the child was intended to prevent the emergence of so-called "split motherhoods" in which the genetic and parenting mother are not identical. (No)

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