guinness world records most babies born to one woman

'Giving birth to one child is hard enough, but having nine is unimaginable,' Cisse told the Daily Mail. The babies, who weighed between 1 and 2 pounds at birth, are all still in the neonatal intensive-care unit. Her stomach alone weighed about 65 pounds, and the cesarean delivery was complicated, with lots of blood loss that left her weak. They join their older sister, Souda, who is 2.Ĭisse said that she was still recovering from the pregnancy and a difficult delivery, according to the Daily Mail.

The nonuplets include four brothers (Mohammed, Bah, El Hadji, Oumar) and five sisters (Hawa, Adama, Fatouma, Oumou, Kadidia). Ten doctors and 25 paramedics were involved in the birth of the premature babies. The care of both babies and mom was so complex it required them to move to MoroccoĪccording to the BBC, Cisse was admitted to the hospital at 25 weeks of gestation and the medical team taking care of her was able to delay the birth of her babies until 30 weeks. All the babies died the day they were delivered.Ī Guinness World Records representative told NPR that they have yet to officially verify this record and that 'the wellbeing of both the mother and babies are of top priority.' The previous record was held by Nadya Suleman, also known as 'octomom,' who gave birth to eight babies in 2009. The other set was born in Malaysia in 1999. One set was born in Australia in 1971, and all babies died within their first week out. There are only two other recorded cases of nonuplets in the world. These are the first nonuplets in the world to survive birth 'It was a total shock when I found out that I was having nine babies because I thought it was going to be seven,' she told The Daily Mail. Cisse went to Morocco for better medical care, and it was there, minutes before the May 5 delivery, that she found out she was carrying nine children. Halima Cisse and her husband, Kader Arby, 35, received the surprise of a lifetime when they learned they were expecting high-order multiples, completely naturally.Īt first the couple was told that they were having seven babies, and doctors warned that there was less than a 50% chance of all the babies surviving. The woman, who also has a 2-year-old daughter, said that the nonuplets were conceived without assistance.

Visit Insider's homepage for more stories.Ī 26-year-old mother from Mali is speaking out about her record-breaking family more than two months after her nine infants were delivered at a hospital in Morocco. The four boys and five girls are doing well, though they remain in the NICU. Until just before the delivery, she thought she was having seven babies. Halima Cisse of Mali says her nine babies were conceived naturally. Msayif Khali examines one of the nine babies protected in an incubator at the maternity unit of the Ain Borja clinic in Casablanca, Morocco, May 20, two weeks after Mali's Halima Cisse gave birth.

Guinness world records most babies born to one woman