Tiny nonuplets born in Morocco have a fight ahead, hospital says
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Halima Cisse, a 25-year-old Malian woman who gave birth to nine babies in Morocco on Tuesday, is in good health. Her nonuplets, five girls and four boys, have a way to go, according to Youssef Alaoui, the medical director of Casablanca’s Ain Borja clinic, where the babies were born.
“There is still work to do because they are very premature,” Alaoui told CNN. “They need to gain weight, they need to breastfeed. There are lots of problems waiting for us.”
The babies were born weighing between 1.1 and 2.4 pounds, after a pregnancy of just 30 weeks. Five were hooked up to ventilators immediately after their birth via C-section.