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A group of nine babies (nonuplets) who Ьгoke the record for the most children delivered in a single birth to survive have returned to their native Mali after 19 months in Morocco where they were born.
Born on 4 May 2021 to Malian parents, Halima Cissé and Abdelkader Arby, the babies were flown to Casablanca, Morocco for specialist care on the orders of the Malian authorities.
The nonuplets were delivered via Caesarean section (CS) at 30 weeks after doctors in Mali initially thought their mother, Cissé, was carrying seven of them.
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Cisse would eventually deliver nine of them including five girls and four boys.
Their girls’ names have been given as Kadidia, Fatouma, Hawa, Adama and Oumou, while the boys are named Mohammed VI, Oumar, Elhadji and Bah.
Halima Cissé & Abdelkader Arby with their babies
Weighing between 500 g and 1 kg (1.1 and 2.2 lb) upon delivery, the babies were immediately cared for in an incubator and left under the care of paediatric neonatologist, Khalil Msaif.
Reports have it that only two other sets of nonuplets have ever been recorded. Sadly none of them ѕᴜгⱱіⱱed past a few days.
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The 24-year-old gave birth to the quintuplets at the Federal medісаɩ Centre Umuahia on Monday, October 3, 2022.