Mali nonuplets: Nine babies being treated in incubators, mother ‘doing well’
Halima Cisse, 25, from Mali gave birth to nine premature babies on Tuesday. The newborns are being treated with incubators in Morocco.
Halima Cisse, the 25-year-old woman from Mali who gave birth to nine babies in Morocco, is doing well. Her nonuplets were born prematurely and are being treated in incubators, the medical facility said on Wednesday, 5 May.
The babies were born via caesarean section on Tuesday and the Malian government said they were all healthy, which is an extremely rare occurrence.
MOROCCAN PROFESSOR SAYS THE BIRTH WAS EXCEPTIONAL
Cisse delivered the nonuplets at the Ain Borja clinic in Casablanca. Professor Youssef Alaoui, the medical director of the clinic, told
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.
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Halima Cissé was struggling under the six stone weight of the children and amniotic fluid and suffered a haemorrhage of her uterine artery during the caesarean section, which took place 30 weeks into her pregnancy.
A radiologist scrambled to stem the flow of blood as 18 nurses put the nonuplets into incubators. They are still on ventilators and will need another 12 more weeks in specialist care before they can breathe independently.
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Rabat – Nine babies born to a Malian woman will need to spend “two to three months” in incubators, a director of the clinic where they were born has said.
Professor Youssef Alaoui of the Ain Borja clinic in Casablanca, Morocco, told the AFP news agency that the case was “extremely rare” and “exceptional”.
The mother, Halima Cissé, 25, and her nonuplets – five girls and four boys – are said to be doing well.
The babies weighed between 500g and 1kg (1.1lb and 2.2lb) when they were born.
Medical director Alaoui said that Cissé 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.