In Pakistan, Couple Decides to Never Sleep Again, Has Quintuplets

On Sunday, a woman gave birth to quintuplets in a private hospital in Lower Dir, a district 150 miles northwest of Islamabad, Pakistan. According to hospital sources, mother and children were in good condition. As reported by Pakistan Today:

Quintuplets were once incredibly rare — an estimated one in 60 million conceptions will spontaneously split, in some form (five identical twins, five fraternal twins, or a mix thereof). But with assisted reproductive techniques (e.g., fertility enhancing drugs, in-vitro fertilization), they're less unusual, statistically speaking. According toStatistic Brain, the U.S. welcomed 69 sets of quintuplets (or higher!) in 2011. In 2015, a Texas family became the first to bring all-girl quints into this world since 1969.

According to reports, the couple had been childless "for the last few years." No word on whether or not they had sought treatment for infertility.