Guess who was born in Mexicali

Perhaps the names of Alberto, Ian, Fátima and Ariadna mean nothing to readers.

However, the story behind them might leave many astonished and mouth-opened — the four are siblings born Sunday in Mexicali.

In a press release the Mexican Institute of Social Security, or IMSS in Spanish, announced the birth of the quadruplets from Ensenada resident and rookie mother Roxana Hernández Duarte, 30, who works as a manufacturing plant supervisor.

Her husband is an oyster packing plant worker. Given the high-risk pregnancy, the mother was transferred to and has been stationed at Mexicali’s Gynecological and Pediatric Hospital since Sept. 19.

Doctor María Elena Silva said the newborns were under special treatment at the intensive care unit, but she hopes the babies will evolve positively within the coming days. “The goal was to avoid any risks and to keep constant attention during the process,” said Gynecological Service chief doctor Denisse González. Doctors had to proceed with cesarean after 31.5 weeks of pregnancy.

The first ones to be born were the boys, who weighed 1.8 kilograms or little over 3 pounds, while the last ones were the girls, weighing 1.45 and 1.0 kilograms, around 3 and 2.5 pounds, respectively.

“They are my first four children — and my last ones,” the mother said in the press release.