All the humans on earth have some kind of biological limitations, but the constantly moving world and up-to-date technology are enhancing our human body and mind, and there are plenty of examples of it. And no matter how humans enhance their biological capabilities, our potential is bound by some scientific limitations, but we all have seen some strange exceptions a lot of times, and a Malian woman has also proved it recently. This Malian woman went into labor expecting seven babies but gave birth to nine instead. According to Mali’s Health Minister Fanta Siby and the Moroccan clinic where the nine children were born, the mother Halima Cisse is a 25-year-old woman, who gave birth by caesarean section to 4 boys and 5 girls recently. Halima Cisse’s birth of nine babies or nonuplets could also break the current world record for most living births at once, and the Guinness Book of World Records is now verifying the births of her babies.
Halima Cisse went into labor expecting seven babies in the private Ain Borja clinic in Casablanca, Morocco. Mali is one of the poorest countries in the world, and its hospitals are not equipped to offer care for a rare, multiple fetes pregnancy such as Cisse’s. So Malian doctors, under government orders, sent Cisse to Morocco, and after five weeks at the Moroccan clinic, Cisse gave birth by Caesarean section. The Health Minister Fanta Siby congratulated the medical teams in Mali and Morocco for the happy outcome. And now nine babies born to this Malian woman will need to spend ‘two to three months’ in incubators, a director of the clinic where they were born has said to some reporters. Professor Youssef Alaoui of the Ain Borja clinic in Casablanca, Morocco told the AFP news agency that the case was ‘extremely rare and exceptional’.
Presently, the mother Halima Cisse and her nonuplets, five girls and four boys are said to be doing well in the hospital. The babies weighed between 500g and 1 kg when they were born. Medical director Prof Alaoui explained that Halima Cisse was 25 weeks pregnant when she was admitted, and his team managed to extend her term to 30 weeks. Ten doctors and 25 paramedics assisted at the delivery. As far as he was aware Ms Cisse had not used any fertility treatments, Prof Alaoui told the Associated Press.
In an interview with BBC, Prof Alaoui said that she had been in a serious condition, to begin with, because of heavy bleeding, which was brought under control. He said, “The mother is now in a good condition. She is not in danger anymore. We wish her and the babies a speedy recovery”. Doctors in Mali conducted ultrasounds and initially believed that she was expecting seven babies. They sent her to Morocco where there are better medical facilities. Cisse’s husband Adjudant Kader Arby, is still in Mali with the couple’s older daughter. He says he has been in touch with his wife in Morocco and is not worried about the family’s future. “God gave us these children. He is the one to decide what will happen to them. I am not worried about that. When the almighty does something, he knows why”, Arby told to BBC Afrique.
The Guinness Book of World record is now verifying Halima Cisse’s birth of nine babies or nonuplets case. However, the current world record belongs to Nadya Suleman, an American woman who gave birth to eight babies in 2009. Nadya who had 8 babies in the US holds the Guinness World Record for the most children delivered at a single birth to survive. Nadya Suleman’s octuplets have grown up and are now around 12 years old. She conceived them through in vitro fertilization. The two sets of nonuplets have previously been recorded, one born to a woman in Australia in 1971 and another to a woman in Malaysia in 1999, but none of the babies survived more than a few days. And all these women are perfect examples of how humanity has made scores of world records over the past few decades by breaking some biological limitations of human bodies, and we still don’t know that how much evolution we can make.
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Reference:
- www.afp.com
- www.reuters.com
- www.bbc.com
- www.apnews.com
- www.guinnessworldrecords.com