A WOMAN from Mali gave birth to nine babies, reaching a world record. The birth took place yesterday in Morocco and it is estimated that this is the first time that such a large number of newborns have been born who can survive. “The little ones are all fine so far”, the Moroccan health authorities said, confirming that i Gemini they are in good health. In the past, births with nine twins had already taken place, but the babies had only lived a few hours.
Halima Cisse, as the young 25-year-old mother is called, she was convinced that she was giving birth to only seven children, but she discovered that she had two more children. The ultrasound scans before the birth failed to locate two of the siblings, but yesterday five girls and 4 boys were born. The babies have been placed in an incubator and have a weight that varies between 500 grams per kilo and will be monitored for at least three weeks in the hospital.
The multiple pregnancy he kept attention in Mali and the leaders of this African nation followed Ciesse’s wait step by step. In March, doctors had asked for more care and the intervention of specialized gynecologists to protect the woman and the unborn child. And the country’s transitional leader, Bah Ndaw, ordered her to be sent to Morocco. “The mother and the children are fine so far,” he told the France Media Agency the Minister of Health of Mali, Fanta Siby, adding that she was kept informed by the Malian doctor who accompanied Cisse to Morocco.
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In a note Siby congratulated “the medical teams of Mali and Morocco, whose professionalism is at the origin of the happy outcome of this pregnancy”.
In three weeks, the woman and nine children are expected to return to Mali. Before giving birth, doctors were very concerned about Cisse’s health and the chances of her babies’ survival. A pregnancy of nine babies is very rare, and complications in one-of-a-kind births often lead to the death of babies.
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Now Cisse is smiling, celebrating with the doctors the arrival of her nine children, kept in line in the incubators at the hospital. The father of the little ones, Kader Arby, who remained in Mali with the couple’s eldest daughter, told the BBC that he remained in constant contact with his wife and was not worried about the future. “God gave us these children – he said – He decides what will happen to them. I’m not worried about it. When the almighty does something, he knows why”.
A positive news that has cheered many people in Mali, giving joy to a country plagued by political unrest and a jihadist insurrection.
The first known case of 9 twins was born in 1971 in Sydney, but none of the babies survived. Another group of 9 twins was born in 1999 in Malaysia, but here too the children lost their lives shortly after. In 2009, the then 33-year-old Nadya Suleman broke records when she gave birth to eight siblings in California, capturing global attention. Now it is the turn of Halima Cisse who brings Mali to the fore with the birth of five girls and four boys.
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