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Prolific mothers
who literally
filled the world!
One baby from a single birth is the norm. In some instances,
mothers beget twins or triplets...with the probability
decreasing with the increase in number. However, there
are some who have found themselves bearing a number
significantly above the statistical average
A woman from Homa Bay made headlines this week after Ugandan woman
giving birth to a set of quintuplets. Jacinta Akinyi gave aged 37 had 38 babies
birth to two boys at home on Sunday before she was A 37-year-old Ugandan woman booked
rushed to hospital where she gave birth to two girls and her spot among the most prolific moth-
ers after birthing 38 children. Mariam
a boy. Unfortunately, all the five children died. This was Nabatanzi Babirye, had her last baby via
not the first time multiple births were being recorded. Caesarian section in December 2016, after
which doctors removed her uterus. She has
The first known quintuplets to have survived were the had six sets of twins, four sets of triplets,
Dionne sisters who were born in May 28, 1934. The identi- three sets of quadruplets and single births.
Ten of these children are girls and the rest
cal sisters were born two months premature in Canada boys. She was married at the age of 12 in
and all five survived to adulthood. 1993, to a man aged 40.