The record-breaking Malian nonuplets have just celebrated their first birthday “in perfect health.”
The babies born in Morocco last year are the world’s only known naturally conceived nonuplets, and even hold the Guinness World Record for most babies delivered in a single birth to survive. The previous record was held by eight babies born to “Octomom” Nadya Suleman of the United States in 2009.
Mother Halima Cissé was flown to Morocco from West Africa by the Malian government for special care at 25 weeks’ gestation, ahead of the planned Caesarean section on May 4, 2021, while Cissé’s husband, Abdelkader Arby, an officer in the Malian army, stayed back in Mali to look after their first child, a 3-year-old daughter….