“It's not easy, but it's great,” their dad says of caring for so many kids. The world's only living nonuplets — that is, nine babies from the same birth — are thriving and reaching their milestones, according to their father.
On Dec. 13, this very large family was able to return home to Mali. The record-setting nonuplets (yes, that is nine babies born at once) have returned home to Mali from Morocco, where they spent the first 19 months of their life.
The delivery of the babies in May last year made a new Guinness World Record for the most children delivered in a single birth to have survived. Announcing her return, the country's health minister Dieminatou Sangare told AFP that the mother and children landed safely and in healthy conditions.
"Nonuplets are extremely rare, and until the arrival of the Cissé children, no cases had been recorded of nine babies from a single birth surviving for more than a few hours," the record-keeping organization wrote. At the time, the children were still under the care of the clinic in Morocco where they were born.
An en caul birth, also known as a “mermaid birth” or “veiled birth”, is when the baby comes out still inside or partially wrapped in the amniotic sac. This happens in only 1 in 80,000 births, making it extremely rare. It might look like your newborn is completely gift-wrapped in a soft bubble.
The least common birthday is leap day, or February 29. But because the day only occurs once every four years, it's obvious it would yield the least amount of birthdays. The rarest birthday of the 365 annual calendar days is Christmas Day, Dec. 25.
1707–c. 1782), a peasant from Shuya, Russia, gave birth to 16 sets of twins. Barbara Zulu of Barberton, South Africa bore 3 sets of girls and 3 mixed sets in seven years (1967–73).
Septuplets (7)
The Frustaci septuplets (born 21 May 1985, in Orange, California) are the first septuplets to be born in the United States. Born at 28 weeks, only two boys and one girl survived; one daughter was stillborn and three died within 19 days of birth.
The Guinness World Records for most children delivered at a single birth to survive is currently held by Nadya Suleman, who gave birth to six boys and two girls in California, US, in 2009. Last month, a 25-year-old Malian woman had given birth to nine babies, two more than doctors had detected during medical scans.
One study estimated a woman can have around 15 pregnancies in a lifetime. And depending on how many babies she births for each pregnancy, she'd probably have around 15-30 children.
The man who is thought to have fathered the most children of all time is Moroccan Sultan Ismail Ibn Sharif (1645 to 1727) with a total of more than 1,000, according to Guinness World Records.
Both parents have said that the nonuplets were conceived naturally. The four boys and five girls have been named: Mohammed, in honour of the king of Morocco, Bah, in honour of the former president of Mali, El Hadji, Oumar, Hawa, Adama, Fatouma Oumou and Kadidia.
Octuplets are a set of eight offspring born at one birth. An individual that is part of such a set is called an octuplet.
Quintuplets are a set of five babies born in one birth. A baby that is part of such a set is called a quintuplet and sometimes referred to as a "quint."
Some names for these are: Twins for 2 fetuses. Triplets for 3 fetuses. Quadruplets for 4 fetuses.
Superfetation is a rare event that involves getting pregnant a second time while you're already pregnant. It's so uncommon that cases of superfetation often make headlines. Your body does a good job preventing subsequent pregnancies once an embryo is developing inside your uterus.
In 99.9% of cases boy/girl twins are non-identical. However, in some extremely rare cases resulting from a genetic mutation, identical twins from an egg and sperm which began as male (XY) can develop into a male / female pair.
If the 12 – called duodecaplets – are all born alive they would represent a medical miracle and break the record of American mother Nadya Suleman, who recently gave birth to the world's longest-surviving octuplets.
Such twins, known scientifically as 'MoMo', an abbreviation for monoamniotic-monochorionic, are some of the rarest types of twins, making up less than one percent of all births in the United States, noted the statement.
Yes, it is possible to have twins with different biological fathers. The scientific term for this anomaly is “heteropaternal superfecundation,” and it's super cool.
Heteropaternal superfecundation, or when twins have different fathers, is actually extremely rare. It occurs when a second egg is released during the same menstrual cycle.
February 3rd is the only day where no one in history has ever been born. Despite much scientific study, there is no explanation for this phenomena. Historically it has been referred to as "the empty day" or "nobody's birthday". The years range from late 1700s to the 2010s.
While the 9th of September is generally regarded as the most common birthday around the world, this actually varies a little bit from country to country – it depends on the hemisphere that the country is in (because this depends on the seasons), the holidays that the country celebrates and its most prevalent religion ...
While holidays are a popular time for baby making, babies are less likely to be born on popular holidays. Christmas, New Years, Christmas Eve, July 4th, Halloween, and some suspiciously Thanksgiving days all make the top 10 least common birthdays.