Just five sets of quadruplets are born each year in the UK - meaning it occurs in only around one in every 150,000 pregnancies. There is theoretically no limit for how many babies a pregnant woman can carry in her womb at once, scientists say.īut the chances of high-order multiple gestation - carrying four or more babies - happening naturally is extremely rare. ![]() ![]() The strain of carrying the weight of the babies and amniotic fluid, estimated at 40kg, more than six stone, triggered a haemorrhage Cisse's uterine artery during the caesarean section, 30 weeks into her pregnancy. She is out of intensive care after almost dying from blood loss during delivery. The mother, 25-year-old Halima Cisse from Timbuktu in northern Mali, is staying near her five baby girls and four boys. They are being tube-fed and their weight has 'significantly' increased, to between 800 grammes and 1.4 kilogrammes (1.7 and three pounds), he told AFP news agency. The Moroccan clinic where the infants were delivered last month, and are being treated, also said on Wednesday that their weight had 'significantly' increased.Ībdelkoddous Hafsi, spokesman for Ain Borja clinic in the city of Casablanca, said the nonuplets had 'crossed the stage of respiratory distress'. Kadir Arabi told that he married Halma in 2017 and their first child was born a year after the marriage.Nine babies born to a Malian woman are now breathing without assistance, but will remain under observation for up to two more months. Halma's pregnancy became a subject of fascination in Mali - even when it was thought she was only carrying septuplets. The multiple births have captured the imagination of everyone in the West African nation, as well as millions of others around the world. Our children are gifts from God.'Īsked if he or his wife had chosen the names of their nonuplets – five girls and four boys delivered by caesarean section – Mr Arby laughed and said: 'We will see!' 'It will be a very joyful, and we will be thanking God the whole time. 'Travel is of course difficult because of the pandemic, but we are arranging a trip for next week,' Mr Arby added. Speaking to an international news outlet, 'I have been in constant touch with my wife, but I had to stay at our home in Mali to look after our other little daughter, who is just two years and five months.' On the other hand, Halma Cisse’s husband Kader Arby, 35, has also come forward and called the birth of their nine children a gift from God and at the same time said that he is eager to meet the children. The birth presented Mali’s beleaguered transitional government, in power since a coup during the summer of last year, with both challenge and opportunity. Should all survive the next few critical months, as medical staff at the clinic in Casablanca hope, she will enter the record books. Halma Cisse is still being treated at the hospital and her children are receiving intensive care.Īt present, the 25-year-old Malian is among only a handful of women to have given birth to nonuplets, five girls and four boys, two more than originally anticipated. ![]() If all of Halima Sisi's children survive, she will be able to set a new record and become the first woman in the world to have nine children survived-born at the same time.īefore that, only 8 children born to American woman Nadia Suleiman in 2009 are alive. Halma Cisse Arby, a 25-year-old Malian woman, gave birth to nine children at the same time on May 5 in the African country Morocco, with five sons and four daughters.
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