A woman in South Africa has given birth to 10 babies, breaking the Guinness World Record held by Malian Halima Cissé who gave birth to nine children in Morocco last month.
According to news websites in South Africa, Gosiame Thamara Sithole, 37, gave birth to 10 babies – more than two doctors had earlier detected during the medical scans at a hospital in Pretoria.
Sithole delivered her seven boys and three girls by Caesarean section. The babies will spend the next few months in the incubator because it was a “high risk” pregnancy.
She has broken the record of the most children born at the same birth held by Cissé, who gave birth to nine children (nonuplets) at a hospital in Morocco last month.
Before Cissé, the record holder of the most children delivered at a single birth to survive was reportedly American Nadya Suleman, who gave birth to eight children in 2009. Her octuplets were conceived through in vitro fertilisation.