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Augsburg (dpa / lby) - In the Augsburg University Clinic, a mother gave birth to four healthy boys.
As the clinic announced on Thursday, the quadruplets born in mid-November have now been able to leave the premature baby intensive care unit.
Little Leon and his brothers Luis, Aron and Ben would continue to be looked after in the monitoring station of the children's clinic.
"Mama Michaela and Papa Valmir come every day to cuddle with their children, to wrap them, to feel them," said clinic spokeswoman Ines Lehmann.
Such multiple births are rare in the Free State.
According to the State Institute for Family Research affiliated to the University of Bamberg, there were only 0.9 births of quadruplets or more children in Bavaria on average between 2000 and 2017.
On the other hand, there are several dozen triplets born every year in the Free State.
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Quadruplets are often born as a result of fertility therapy.
It was different with the Augsburg quadruplets of Michaela Seidl and her partner Valmir Bytyqi.
Such a quadruplet birth without therapy occurs in Bavaria's third largest city only about every 100 years, said the Augsburg University Hospital.
The quadruplets were born by caesarean section two months before the expected due date.
"The four boys are very healthy, all had a birth weight of over 1300 grams and breathed independently from the start," said Lehmann.
State Institute for Family Research at the University of Bamberg on multiple births in Bavaria