[bitontheslide]

A 25-year-old Malian woman has given birth to nine babies - two more than doctors had detected during scans.

Halima Cisse gave birth to the nonuplets in Morocco. Mali's government flew her there for specialist care.

The five girls and four boys were born by Caesarean section and were doing well, Mali's health minister said.

It is extremely rare to give birth to a set of nonuplets - and complications during and after birth often mean that some of the babies do not survive.

Morocco's health ministry spokesman Rachid Koudhari said he had no knowledge of a set nonuplets ever being born in one of the country's hospitals before, the AFP news agency reports.

Fanta Siby, Mali's health minister, congratulated the medical teams in both countries for the "happy outcome".

Ms Cisse's pregnancy became a subject of fascination in Mali - even when it was thought she was only carrying septuplets, the Reuters news agency reports.

Doctors in the West African nation had been concerned for her welfare and the chances of the babies' survival - so the government intervened.

After a two-week stay in a hospital in Mali's capital, Bamako, the decision had been made to move Ms Cisse to Morocco on 30 March, Dr Siby said.

After five weeks at the Moroccan clinic, she had given birth on Tuesday, the minister said.

The mother and her new brood are expected to return home in several weeks.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-56994408

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I had a difficult enough job coping with one at a time

[Niamh.]

Holy **** imagine looking after 9 babies It's amazing they all survived, that must be some sort of record

[Alf]

I bet it's like the channel tunnel down there.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Alf

I bet it's like the channel tunnel down there.

I doubt it since she had a C-Section............

[Alf]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I doubt it since she had a C-Section............

A heckler.

[Cherie]

Gosh incredible!

[Liam-]

A womb like a clown car

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Liam-

A womb like a clown car

never heard that expression before, what does it mean?

[GoldHeart]

Wow that's alott of babies

[Cherie]

Oh I see its a form of shaming women who have 'too many children'

although in this case she didn't set out to have 9 kids did she, unless she had a crystal ball


It not like it’s just a throwaway line in popular movies, either. Perhaps the most common refrain one hears about Michelle Duggar, mother of many, is the phrase “It’s a vagina, not a clown car.” Classy, people!

So what is up with the fertility shaming? It seems so weird that we’re in an era where the slightest hint of criticism of promiscuity is responded to by shouts of “slut shaming!” but that media and culture types go after people who embrace having more than a couple babies.

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I doubt it since she had a C-Section............

must have cut her from the big toe to her eyebrow

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

must have cut her from the big toe to her eyebrow

I'm sure they took the babies out one at a time.

Jeez, the sexism in this thread

[Liam-]

Originally Posted by Cherie

never heard that expression before, what does it mean?

Originally Posted by Cherie

Oh I see its a form of shaming women who have 'too many children'

although in this case she didn't set out to have 9 kids did she, unless she had a crystal ball


It not like it’s just a throwaway line in popular movies, either. Perhaps the most common refrain one hears about Michelle Duggar, mother of many, is the phrase “It’s a vagina, not a clown car.” Classy, people!

So what is up with the fertility shaming? It seems so weird that we’re in an era where the slightest hint of criticism of promiscuity is responded to by shouts of “slut shaming!” but that media and culture types go after people who embrace having more than a couple babies.

It was a joke about a lot of people coming out of a small space, it’s not that deep.

[arista]

At least she is young

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Liam-

It was a joke about a lot of people coming out of a small space, it’s not that deep.

Never heard the 'joke' before so I looked it up that is what I got, I didn't write it, just posted what came up on google

[UserSince2005]

J'suis pas ta daronne, j'te ferais pas la morale

[Captain.Remy]

Congrats to her...and good luck! I hope she has enough support from her closed ones to help her with the daily stuff.

[Livia]

Wow... a blessing and a curse. Best of luck to them... Nine all healthy, amazing really.

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Never heard the 'joke' before so I looked it up that is what I got, I didn't write it, just posted what came up on google

A clown car is a circus act. The joke is about an impossible number of people crammed into a small space.

It's not fertility shaming.