San Jose, May 18 (EFE).- The first sextuplets in the history of Costa Rica – four boys and two girls – were born by Cesarean section at San Jose’s Mexico Hospital, a spokesperson of the medical center said Monday.

The sextuplets are doing well, though their birth Sunday night was premature after only six weeks of gestation, and for that reason they are being protected in incubators with a system of intubation, the spokesperson said.

The mother, 34, a resident of Heredia in central Costa Rica, is in good health, while three of the babies are in Mexico Hospital, two are in Hospital de la Mujer and the other is in San Juan de Dios Hospital, according to the protocol established by La Caja, the Costa Rican Social Security Fund.

A total of 21 specialists from five medical centers assisted at the multiple delivery, and each child has had a team dedicated to its well-being from its moment of birth.

Further information will be given about the newborn sextuplets in the next few hours, the spokesperson said. EFE