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Mali mother s 9 babies doing well in Morocco clinic
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02/06/2021 - 17:50 A member of staff surveys one of nine babies kept in incubators after they were born to a Malian woman at clinic in the Moroccan city of Casablanca - AFP 2 min
Rabat (AFP)
The nine babies born to a Malian woman on May 4 are doing well but need to remain under observation for up to two more months, the Moroccan clinic where she delivered said Wednesday.
Abdelkoddous Hafsi, spokesman for Ain Borja clinic in the city of Casablanca, said the nonuplets were now breathing without assistance as they had crossed the stage of respiratory distress .
The Moroccan clinic where the infants were delivered last month, and are being treated, also said on Wednesday that they were breathing without assistance and had put on weight.
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Woman Gives Birth to Nine Babies: “God Gave Us These Children”
(Photo credit: Mali Health Ministry)
Giving birth is a miraculous feat in itself. The toll it takes on a woman’s body and the sheer joy of this new life being brought into the world is priceless. Now, imagine a woman doing that nine times in a row–in one setting!
You don’t have to imagine it, because Halima Cissé just gave birth to nine babies! She was expecting to have only seven newborns, but ultrasound sessions had failed to spot two of her babies. Cissé, who just turned 25, gave birth by cesarean section.