The Guinness World Record for most children born to one mother goes to Valentina Vassilyev, the wife of a Russian peasant Feodor Vassilyev. She birthed 69 babies total in her lifetime.
Most prolific mother ever
The record for number of children born to one mother is 69 in the 1700s, according to Guinness. She was the wife to Feodor Vassilyev, a peasant from Shuya, Russia. She gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets.
The most fertile woman in history is alleged to be an 18th-century Russian peasant called Valentina Vassilyev. Between 1725 and 1765, she is recorded as giving birth to a total of 69 children – 67 of whom survived infancy. This included 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets.
At birth, the nonuplets achieved the Guinness World Records title for “the most children delivered at a single birth to survive,” replacing Natalie (Nadya) Suleman, a.k.a. “Octomom,” who in 2009 gave birth to eight children (octuplets). While still in Morocco, Arby was presented with the record-holding certificate.
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.
The man named Jonathan, aged 41, could be fined more than €100,000 (£88,000) if he tries to donate again. He was banned from donating to fertility clinics in the Netherlands in 2017 after it emerged he had fathered more than 100 children.
The baby who holds the title of Australia's biggest newborn was Stephen Lyttle, who was born in 1963 weighing 7.399kg, or 16 pounds 5. The average weight of an Australian newborn is about 3.3kg, or around 7 pounds.
Women can reproduce for about half of their lifetime and can only give birth about once every year or so. So it makes sense that women can only have a fraction as many children as men. One study estimated a woman can have around 15 pregnancies in a lifetime.
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.
Jennifer Waters gave birth to five sets of twins within eight years. She became a surrogate mom to three of the five pairs of children. The mom was thrilled that the five pregnancies resulted in 10 healthy twins.
Surprisingly, Mel Gibson has 9 children, Mia Farrow had a whopping 14. DMX has had addiction issues, but has managed to have 15 kids along the way. And of course, Bob Marley spread his love all over the world, mainly in Jamaica, as he had 11 kids.
The world's most fertile woman has had an incredible 44 children - and now has to raise her massive brood on her own. Mariam Nabatanzi had her record number of babies by the time she was just 36 and all with the same father. Now 39, Mariam has had three sets of quadruplets, four sets of triplets and six sets of twins.
Mariam Nabatanzi Babirye (born December 25, 1980) also known as Maama Uganda or Mother Uganda is the most fertile woman in the world. She has given birth to a total number of 44 children, 38 of whom are alive. As of April 2023, her eldest children are 28 years and the youngest are 6 years old.
While a 92-year-old woman delivering a 60-year-old baby may sound like a bizarre plot twist from the movie “Benjamin Button,” it's true. Huang Yijun, 92, of southern China, recently delivered a child which she'd been carrying for well over half a century. The baby wasn't alive, however.
The longest interval between the birth of twins is 90 days, in the case of Molly and Benjamin West, dizygotic (fraternal) twins born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA to parents Lesa and David West (all USA) on 1 January and 30 March 1996.
That's what was written on Jonathon Heeley's discharge papers when he went home from hospital after being born 12 weeks premature and weighing just 374 grams in mid-1992.
Cheyenne, who has dark hair and blue-green eyes, isn't the smallest baby ever born. That honor rests with Kwek Yu Xuan, who was born at 7.5 ounces — the weight of an apple — in June 2020 in Singapore.
Jeni Bonell and her husband Ray are parents to nine sons and seven daughters, aged between seven and 32.
Key Points. Jonathan Meijer, 41, has fathered between 500 and 600 children around the world.
In 1997, Ziona succeeded his father Chana, who in turn had succeeded Khuangtuaha in 1966. He had 39 wives, 94 children, 14 daughters-in-law, 33 grandchildren and one great grandchild; 181 family members in total and counting. His family and their four-story residence are one of the major tourist attractions in Mizoram.
So, how many times a day does a man need to copulate to produce this many children over a 32 year period? Factoring in all the constraints yields an average of 1 to 1.6 per day, certainly within the capacity of a healthy male.
Netflix's Our Father Tells The True Story of a Fertility Doctor Who Used His Own Sperm on Patients. During the 1970s and '80s, a fertility specialist in Indiana named Dr. Donald Cline inseminated dozens of patients with his own sperm, without their knowledge or consent.