To wonder if this heartwarming story is 100% true

[PuzzledObserver]

Woman tried for a baby for 12 years. And then gives birth to quintuplets. No IVF. Probability of naturally conceiving quins is 1 in 55 million.

I’m delighted for them. But AIBU to think the statement that they were conceived naturally is unlikely?

YABU - Don’t be so cynical, she is that 1 in 55 million
YANBU - Science was involved in this

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c893y34zlv0o

She’s a subsistence farmer in a developing country. I can’t see how she’d pay for IVF, or why a clinic would offer it to her free of charge when there’s nothing in it for them to do so (they couldn’t bank on her successfully carrying five babies to term as some sort of publicity deal.) It might be very rare, but very rare still means possible.

It rings true to me.

The odds of a specific person being born is 1 in 400 trillion.

Yet here we are, all 8 billion of us who beat those odds.

Doesn’t sound too far fetched to me!

That is a very good point.

I expect she took clomiphene. There’s no way she naturally conceived five babies

Rings true to me as well. Not conceiving for 12 years makes me wonder about PCOS, which can lead to hyper-ovulation.

You absolutely cannot know this.

Fertility drugs in her part of the world are expensive and hard to access. I very much doubt that the pregnancy was assisted in that way.