Woman gives brith to nonuplets

A 25-year-old Malian woman Halima Cisse has given birth to nine babies ( nonuplets) in Morocco.

“ I am very happy, My wife and the babies ( five girls and four boys) are doing well,” the proud father said.

Halima Cisse beat a woman who had eight babies in the US in 2009,  two sets of nonuplets have previously recorded, one born to a woman in Australia in 1971 and another to a woman in Malaysia in 1999 – but none of the babies survived more than a few days.

It was a surprise for Halima Cisse as nine babies were born – two more than doctors had detected during scans.

World record holder Nadya Suleman’s octuplet conceived them through in vitro fertilization, have grown up, and are now 12 years old.

Mali’s health minister Fanta Siby congratulated the medical teams in Mali and Morocco for the happy outcome.

The case was “extremely rare, it’s exceptional”  Prof Youssef Alaoui, medical director of the Ain Borja Clinic in Casablanca where Ms. Cisse gave birth assisted by 10 doctors and 25 paramedics.

They weighted between 500g and 1kg (1.1lb and 2.2lb) and would be kept in incubators “ for two to three months”, he said.