{"id":123800,"date":"2021-05-05T10:49:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T10:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=123800"},"modified":"2021-05-05T10:49:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T10:49:47","slug":"woman-from-mali-gives-birth-to-nine-babies-after-expecting-seven-and-all-are-doing-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/woman-from-mali-gives-birth-to-nine-babies-after-expecting-seven-and-all-are-doing-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman from Mali gives birth to nine babies after expecting seven – and all are doing well"},"content":{"rendered":"
A woman from Mali has given birth to nine babies – two more than had been detected through scans.<\/p>\n
Halima Cisse gave birth to the nonuplets at a hospital in Morocco<\/strong> after she was flown there in March for specialist care. All are said to be “doing well”.<\/p>\n The 25-year-old has become a mum to five girls and four boys, which were all delivered by caesarean section.<\/p>\n Mali’s health minister said it would be several weeks before they are expected home.<\/p>\n “The newborns and the mother are all doing well,” she confirmed.<\/p>\n She said she was being updated on the progress of the mother and the babies by the Malian doctor who had accompanied Halima to Morocco.<\/p>\n Halima had been expected to give birth to seven babies following ultrasound scans conducted in Morocco and Mali<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Her pregnancy has fascinated people in Mali, with her case attracting the attention of the West African nation’s leaders.<\/p>\n Nonuplets are extremely rare with medical complications in multiple births of this kind often meaning that some of the babies do not reach full term.<\/p>\n The first known set of nonuplets was born in 1971 in Sydney to 29-year-old Geraldine Brodrick, but none of the five boys and four girls survived.<\/p>\n Zurina Mat Saad gave birth to five boys and four girls in Malaysia in 1999, but none survived for more than a few hours.<\/p>\n