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Pregnant woman expecting 7 babies gives birth to 9
By Hannah SparksMay 5, 2021 | 11:32am | Updated
A mother expecting septuplets was shocked to find two more babies tucked in her womb during labor — making her one of the few women in history to birth nonuplets.
A mother expecting septuplets was shocked to find two more babies tucked in her womb during labor -- making her one of the few women in history to birth nonuplets.Facebook
Happy Mother’s Day — times nine!
A 25-year-old mother who was expecting to give birth to an already jaw-dropping seven babies was shocked to find two more babies tucked in her womb during labor — making her one of the few women in history to birth nonuplets.
Halima Cisse, from Timbuktu, was told by doctors in Mali’s capital, Bamako, that she’d be having seven babies. A second opinion from doctors in Morocco confirmed the shocking news.
Cisse’s pregnancy had already made national headlines before she went into labor. So invested were Malians that the nation’s president, Bah N’Daw, ordered that Cisse be sent to North Africa in late March to be able to give birth with specialists present.
She was admitted to a Moroccan clinic on March 20 and remained on bedrest until giving birth on Tuesday.
And that she did — to a whopping five boys and four girls — via cesarean section, according to Mali’s health ministry.
“The mother and babies are doing well so far,” health minister Fanta Siby told Agence France-Presse, as reported in the Guardian. Siby said they confirmed the news with Cisse’s resident doctor, who had accompanied the mom-to-be to Morocco, and added that the family is currently resting there with plans to return to Mali after thorough observation.
