When Oksana Kobletskaya, from Ukranian town Odessa, fell pregnant, she was overjoyed. The 36-year-old woman was already mom to a three year old daughter, and she and husband Sergey were looking forward to welcoming one more family member. But what they thought would be a normal pregnancy would develop into a shocking twist that left people around the world speechless. Osana and Sergey had never planned to have a big family, they had agreed that two children would be perfect.They simply didn’t have the means to support more children, the couple agreed.But even in the earlier stages of her pregnancy, Oksana suspected that there was more than one child in her stomach.

She couldn’t help but think that something was different.“No one in our family had ever been pregnant with twins. I was sure I would never experience anything like this”, Oksana tells German news source Heftig.But the fact was, this was only the beginning, and there was a bigger suprise that was yet to be revealed….

Then the doctor explained: “I can see five fetuses, maybe six. It’s hard to tell.”It turns out Oksana was expecting five babies.As you can probably imagine, this is extremely rare. Only 1 in 47 458 321 pregnancies results in quintuplets.While Oksana was still trying to process the news, the doctor ran around the hospital close to ecstatic. Nobody at the hospital had ever seen anything like it.