Posted on 05/07/2021 1:53:30 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
A 25-year-old Malian woman has given birth to nine babies - two more than doctors had detected during scans.
Halima Cissé gave birth to the nonuplets in Morocco. Mali's government flew her there for specialist care.
"I'm very happy," her husband told the BBC. "My wife and the babies [five girls and four boys] are doing well."
A woman who had eight babies in the US in 2009 holds the Guinness World Record for the most children delivered at a single birth to survive.
Two sets of nonuplets have previously been recorded - one born to a woman in Australia in 1971 and another to a woman in Malaysia in 1999 - but none of the babies survived more than a few days.
World record holder Nadya Suleman's octuplets have grown up and are now 12 years old. She conceived them through in vitro fertilisation.
Fanta Siby, Mali's health minister, congratulated the medical teams in Mali and Morocco for the "happy outcome".
Prof Youssef Alaoui, medical director of the Ain Borja clinic in Casablanca where Ms Cissé gave birth, told the AFP news agency that the case was "extremely rare, it's exceptional" - and a team of 10 doctors and 25 paramedics had assisted at the delivery of the premature babies.
They weighed between 500g and 1kg (1.1lb and 2.2lb) and would be kept in incubators "for two to three months", he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
"God gave us these children. He is the one to decide what will happen to them. I'm not worried about that. When the almighty does something, he knows why," he told BBC Afrique.
Cool.
But who would have thought Morocco was the place for specialist care?
Good luck to them all. It’s going to take a village to raise those children. The parents are married, so that’s a big plus for stability. Apparently, they are getting lots of support, hope that includes money or property.
That’s a litter by any reasonable definition.
From the subtext of the article
It is very unusual for such pregnancies to occur naturally - often it is the result of fertility treatment - though we do not know if this happened in Ms Cissé’s case.
But gynaecologist Bill Kalumi, from Kenya’s Kenyatta National Hospital, says they really only occur when this has been the case.
There are a range of reasons why fertility treatment is sought.
But most commonly in Africa fertility drugs are prescribed when a woman comes off a hormonal form of contraceptive as she can find that it takes a while to ovulate again, Dr Kalumi says.
This can then result in the release of several eggs, instead of one, during a woman’s monthly cycle.
Multiple births are risky for both mother and babies - and a woman who is found to be carrying more than four foetuses tends to be advised to reduce that number in countries where abortion is legal.
Would the Left call her an “overachieving birthing person”?
I hope that the nonomom is more appreciative of the munificence of government and private charities than the octomom was (is?).
Until a few years ago both China and India had larger populations than all of Africa. Africa seems to have passed India recently and was on the verge of passing China. Halima may have put Africa over the top.
Have they claimed asylum in the U.S. yet? Biden probably has a plane on the way.
My granddaughter was 1 lb 10 oz and was in hospital almost 5 months. Needless to say, she needed much help and medicine. At 32, somewhat like a 16 yr old. It was an expensive trip. I can’t fathom the expense for this couple. But who knows, they may get all the help they need for nothing. Best wishes for them.
Wonder how many will have mental issues....Octomoms got a few messed up.
Except they’re not animals. But they are a baseball team!
Asia still beats Africa. You’re comparing a continent (or sub-continent, depending on tectonic plates) to individual countries.
Goodness, I hope she’s not Muslim! She could be honor killed for holding those doctors’ hands!
God Bless the children!
Yes, I’m quite aware that Africa has many countries, more than 40. I used to like to be able to point out to my students that India (the country, not the subcontinent) had more people than all of Africa. Asia still has nearly 60% of the world’s population, but Africa since 1950 has gone from less than 10% of the total to 17% or more now. (Much of the increase can be explained by a reduction in infant mortality—still high by comparison to the industrialized countries, but much lower now than 60 or 70 years ago.)
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