Sakong Hye-ran gives birth to Korea's first five natural pregnant twins "Daughters, Three Sons, Irrational" (Human Theater)
May 12, 2025
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KBS 1TV's `Thank You, Five Twins' episode aired on the 12th depicts the daily life of Sa Gong Hye-ran, a mother of five twins, and Kim Joon-young, a 32-year-old physics teacher at her father's high school.
In September last year, Hyeran delivered Saerim, Saechan, Saegang, Saebyeol, and Saebom in 26 weeks and 6 days of pregnancy. The quintuplets, who were born as ultra-immature infants weighing less than 1 kg, were treated in the neonatal intensive care unit and discharged one after another, and all returned home six months later.
The five siblings are two daughters and three sons, all of whom are fraternal.
Hyeran said "The faces of the five twins look different, but those who see them for the first time are confused. I think it's different. There were five nurseries. There is no unity, and they are all different."
Fortunately, two newborn parenting masters are helping out with the five twin care.
Hye-ran "I applied for a postpartum helper for eight weeks. He is helping to take care of you from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m."
Jun-young is taking paternity leave side by side with his wife and is fully committed to parenting.
Jun-young said "I wanted twins. I told my wife about it, and she said, `How can a small person like me give birth. Don't say anything that doesn't make sense,' he scolded. But he put his hand on his wife's stomach and prayed 'Please be twins'. I was surprised that five twins were born, so I lowered my expectations because they said the probability of twins was not high. My family scolded me a lot, saying, 'Why do you say that so carelessly?' So 'There are two twins, who thinks of quintuplets?' he laughed.
When they found out they were pregnant with the quintuplets, they hugged each other and cried their eyes out
The couple said "What's going on?"Is this real?" It was a shock to see the five of us," he recalled.
Late at night, Jun-young cleaned and disinfected the bottle for the next day.
He is wiping the bottle 24 times because four people (other than the baby in the hospital) eat it six times. Friendship arises from raising children. If my wife is having a hard time, I'll do it, and if I'm having a hard time, my wife will do it. We rely on each other a lot. I am grateful and sorry for having such a hard birth,' he said.
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