• Guinness World Record for giving birth to children at one time. Largest number of children and other parental world records

    31.07.2019

    The total fertility rate or TFR is a statistical value that characterizes the average number of births per woman in a hypothetical generation over her entire life. Since 1950, the TFR has steadily decreased. In the United States, for example, the TFR in 1950 was 4.95 children per mother. This statistical value has consistently decreased over recent years and in 2010 in the United States the TFR is approximately equal to 2.36, i.e. over sixty years there has been a decrease in this figure by two children per mother.

    However, throughout history there have been many women who gave birth to significantly more children than the statistical average. You have no idea what is meant by the word “significantly”. Unfortunately, the stories of the mothers who were said to have given birth to an incredible number of children are quite difficult to verify, with the only evidence remaining to this day being journal entries and old gravestones. However, what little is known today about these mothers is simply breathtaking.

    Here are the ten mothers who, according to historical records, gave birth to the most children.

    10. Mary Jonas (33 children).

    In the 19th century, on Foregate Street, Chester, England, there lived a furniture merchant named Mary Jonas. When she died, in 1899, at the age of 85, she was buried next to her husband, John Jonas. Their gravestone in Overleigh Cemetery in Chester, England, contains an interesting inscription. The engraving reads:

    Here rests John Jonas, who died February 24th, 1892, aged 78 years, and Mary Jonas, beloved wife of the above and mother of 33 children, who died December 4th, 1899, aged 85 years.

    Of Mary and John's 33 children, 30 were twins (15 pairs), and each pair of twins consisted of a boy and a girl. In addition, all of Mary and John's children were born alive and healthy, but most of them died before they became adults. However, ten children were still alive at the time of their father's death in 1892. Another interesting fact about the family is that the popular magazine of their time, Tit-Bits, held a competition, promising a lifetime subscription to the woman who could "contribute most to increasing the population of the Empire." Ms. Jonas posthumously won the competition.

    9. Mrs. Harrison (35 children).

    1736: Mrs Harrison, wife of Mr Harrison, a businessman residing in Vere Street, gave birth to her 35th child by the same husband.

    Nothing more is known about this couple.

    8. Elizabeth Greenhill (39 children).

    Most mothers with many children had multiple pregnancies. However, Elizabeth Greenhill from Abbots Langley in Hertfordshire gave birth to 39 children with only one multiple birth. This story was recorded in the book "The Art of Embalming" by Thomas Greenhill, which is how we know this fact. The entry in the book reads:

    She had 39 children from one husband. They were all born alive, and all were from same-sex pregnancies. Last child, who was born after his father's death, worked as a surgeon in King Street, Bloomsbury, and wrote this book. She said that if her husband had lived, she might have had two or three more children.

    7. Alice Hookes (41 children).

    Alice Hookes of Gwynedd from North Wales was included on this list based on an inscription on her gravestone found in Conway Church Cemetery. The inscription on it states that Nicholas Hookes, who died in 1637, was the 41st child of his mother Alice. Unfortunately, no further information exists about Alice's other children.

    6. Elizabeth Mott (42 children).

    The 1988 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records names Elizabeth Mott as the British record holder for having the most children. In 1676, Elizabeth and John Mott of Monks Kirby in north-east Warwickshire were married and reportedly had 42 children. Elizabeth died in 1720.

    5. Maddalena Granata (52 children).

    In Nocera, Italy, a woman named Maddalena Granata was reported to have given birth to a total of 52 children. This was recorded by a Xaples correspondent in the Parisian Journal, where the following was written:

    About two or three stations from Pompeii, in the city of Nocera, lives Maddalena Granata, forty-seven years old, who married at twenty-eight and gave birth to fifty-two living and dead children, forty-nine of them boys. Dr. de Sanctis from Nocera states that she has had triplets 15 times.

    4. Barbara Stratzman (53 children).

    Living between 1448 and 1503, during the time of the Holy Roman Empire, Barbara Stratzmann of Bönnigheim (today part of Germany) was reported to have given birth to 53 children, although almost none of them survived infancy. Barbara and her husband Adam Stratzman were said to have had one pregnancy of septuplets, one pregnancy of six, four triplets, five twins, and eighteen singleton pregnancies. Of these children, nineteen are believed to have been stillborn, and by 1498 the oldest surviving child was eight years old.

    An unusually large number of births were recorded in painting by the Protestant artist Kyriekaskirch from Bönnigheim. In the work, Kyriekaskirch depicted Barbara and Adam with their 53 children in a stable in Bethlehem. However, in 1990, the chief physician of the Heilbronn Municipal Women's Clinic questioned this story, pointing to the fact that Barbara's multiple births were statistically improbable and that a woman at that time was unlikely to survive multiple pregnancies due to the quality of medicine at the time.

    3. Leontina Albina (55 children).

    A 1988 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records reports that the most prolific mother in the world at the time was Leontina Albina (née Espinosa) of San Antonio, Chile, wife of Gerardo Secunda Albina. Leontina and Gerardo, born in 1925 and 1921 respectively, were married in Argentina in 1943. According to Gerardo, his wife gave birth to five triplets (all boys) before moving to Chile. Then in Chile, the number of children the couple had steadily increased until 1981, when 55-year-old Leontina gave birth to her 55th child. There are anecdotal reports that the couple had nine more children after this, making their total number 64. If Leontyne's birth in 1986 were officially confirmed, it would make her the oldest "young" mother in the world. Unfortunately for the couple, eleven of their children died in the earthquake, and by 1988 only 40 (24 boys and 16 girls) were alive. And most importantly, I wonder if you want to buy toys, how much money do you need to spend on it? The only plus is that the toys are passed down from the oldest to the youngest. But don’t forget that new toys are also needed, and the more children, the more more money goes to them.

    2. Wife of Yakov Kirillov (57 children).

    In 1775, 60-year-old Yakov Kirillov from the village of Vvedenskoye, Russia, was presented to the royal court in recognition of his successful fatherhood. With the peasant farmer were 15 of his children who were born by his second wife, and all 57 children who were born by his first wife. The first wife, whose name was not recorded, gave birth to 57 children in 21 births: four pregnancies of quadruples, seven of triplets and ten of twins. Unfortunately, the fact that Kirillov's wife actually gave birth to 57 children cannot be verified, thus there are doubts about the veracity of this statement.

    1. First wife of Fyodor Vasilyev (69 children).

    Fyodor Vasiliev, who lived from 1707 to 1782, was a peasant from the city of Shuya, Russia. The name of his first wife was not recorded, but according to the records of the St. Nicholas Monastery, this woman gave birth to four children, seven triplets and sixteen twins, as a result of 27 births in the monastery. A total of 69 children were born to one woman, and according to records, only two of the children did not survive infancy. Even more amazingly, Vasiliev married again, and his second wife gave birth to two triplets and six twins, that is, a total of 18 more children as a result of 8 births. In total, the man had 87 children. There are doubts about the veracity of this statement; however, the Guinness Book of Records names Vasiliev's wife and her 69 children as the official record holder for the most productive mother of all time.

    And the fact that we are in first and second place gives confidence to our nation. Women, of course, we have wow... ;)

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    Bearing and raising even one child is quite a labor-intensive task. However, historical documents claim that a certain woman gave birth to as many as 69 children. Is it true? And will modern medicine be able to expand women's reproductive capabilities? The correspondent is looking for answers to these questions

    If the British tabloid press had existed in the 18th century, the story of the family of Russian peasant Fyodor Vasiliev would have caused a frenzy of excitement.

    What's the matter? It is believed that Vasiliev’s first wife, whose name has not been preserved by history, holds the world record for the number of children born.

    According to a message sent to Moscow by the monks of the St. Nicholas Monastery, between 1725 and 1765 Vasilyeva managed to give birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven times to give birth to triplets, and four times to quadruples.

    She gave birth, respectively, 27 times, for a total of 69 children.

    One can only wonder how a modern newspaper editor would react to such prolificity, especially given the uproar surrounding mother of octuplets Nadia Suleman (nicknamed "Octomom" and giving birth to 14 children) and the British Radford family (their 17 children were the subjects of a TV documentary).

    So, is it actually possible to have more than 60 children?

    A woman could theoretically mother more children than we ever thought possible

    "Something from the realm of fantasy. Just imagine, 69 children? Come on!" - says James Segars, director of the Division of Research in the Field of Reproduction and women's health Johns Hopkins University.

    I decided to take a closer look at this surprising (and, at first glance, dubious) statement by consulting with reproduction experts.

    I was hoping to find out what the physical limits are on the number of children a woman can bear. naturally.

    Along the way, it was discovered that thanks to the achievements of modern science, a woman could theoretically become a mother to more children than we ever thought possible.

    Illustration copyright Getty Image caption In Britain, only 1.5% of pregnancies are twins, and the probability of triplets is only 0.0003% of cases.

    First, let's look at the mathematical part of the Vasilievs' story. Is it possible to have 27 pregnancies in the 40 years we are talking about?

    At first, this does not seem counterintuitive - especially since triplets and quadruplets are usually born more than a year later. early stages.

    It turns out that in total Vasilyeva was pregnant for 18 years

    Let's make some rough calculations: 16 twins at 37 weeks; seven triplets at 32 weeks; four quadruplets of 30 weeks. It turns out that in total Vasilyeva was pregnant for 18 years out of 40. She had a craving for salty food - and so on for a couple of decades.

    Another question is whether this is possible in reality.

    First of all, it is necessary to understand whether a woman is able to maintain constant readiness for childbearing over such a long period.

    Typically, women have their first period around the age of 15: every 28 days, their ovaries release an egg—usually one.

    Ovulation repeats until the supply of eggs in the ovaries is depleted during menopause, which occurs around age 51.

    Illustration copyright Getty Image caption Most women cannot get pregnant after 45 years of age. Is there enough time to have 69 children?

    However, a woman’s ability to conceive sharply decreases long before menopause.

    "A 45-year-old woman's chance of getting pregnant is about 1% per month," says Valerie Baker, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Stanford University School of Medicine.

    A woman's aging leads to a reduction in the number and quality of eggs. In progress intrauterine development A female embryo can have up to seven million immature eggs, with about a million remaining at birth.

    The ability to become pregnant decreases with each pregnancy, because each subsequent birth takes its toll on the body

    U adult woman Only a few hundred thousand eggs are retained. Of these many cells found inside the follicles, approximately 400 reach maturity and participate in ovulation, providing their carrier with approximately 30 years of potential childbearing.

    The last eggs that ovulate late in a woman's reproductive years are at much higher risk of mutations, genetic abnormalities, and other problems associated with aging.

    Often, pregnancies involving such atypical eggs end spontaneously.

    "Most women are unable to get pregnant after they reach 42-44 years of age," says James Segars. "However, sometimes this happens closer to 50 years of age."

    Illustration copyright Getty Image caption At birth, women have only about a million eggs, and their number is constantly decreasing

    Moreover, the ability to become pregnant decreases with each pregnancy, because each subsequent birth affects the female reproductive system.

    And if Vasilyeva breastfed her children - which is logical for a peasant woman who could not afford wet nurses - ovulation did not occur in her body. This natural method of birth control would further reduce her chances of having 69 pregnancies.

    It turns out that Fedor and his wife were very lucky (or perhaps unlucky) that even after she reached 50 years old, she did not have any problems with having new children.

    Survive childbirth

    And this is not all the difficulties associated with the birth of 69 babies.

    Evolution has taken care of slowing down women’s “biological clocks,” because bearing and giving birth to a child is an extremely difficult task, which only becomes more difficult with age.

    “The limits must be set by nature,” says Valerie Baker. “Pregnancy is the most stressful process a woman’s body will ever go through.”

    Illustration copyright SPL Image caption Birth multiple twins or triplets can theoretically lead to a large number of children in the family, but the health risks are high

    The fact that childbirth is a burden for a woman gives the greatest reason to doubt the veracity of the story about 69 children - especially considering that it happened a couple of centuries ago in the Russian outback.

    IN developed countries availability of modern obstetric care (for example, due to medical reasons caesarean section) has reduced maternal mortality.

    In Britain, per 100,000 births, only eight women die from pregnancy-related causes during pregnancy or six weeks after pregnancy. These are the latest statistics from the World Bank.

    Meanwhile, in one of the poorest countries on Earth, Sierra Leone, the rate is 1,100 deaths per 100,000 births.

    The tendency to have twins is usually hereditary. Perhaps in Vasilyeva it was especially pronounced?

    In this regard, the assumption that Fyodor Vasilyev’s wife survived 27 births raises doubts.

    "Previously, any pregnancy was a risk to the mother's life," explains Segars. At multiple births(for example, when giving birth to quadruplets), the risk of serious life-threatening complications increases rapidly.

    “Every pregnancy at that time was complex, even if it was just one child,” says Jonathan Tilley of Northeastern University (USA), who is researching the use of oocyte stem cells to treat female infertility and other diseases (read about this below).

    A bunch of backbiters

    Another aspect that looks implausible in the Vasilievs’ story is the possibility of multiple conceptions of two, three and four children at the same time.

    There are two types of multiple pregnancies: either several eggs that leave the ovaries as a result of ovulation are successfully fertilized by sperm (so-called fraternal twins), or one fertilized egg divides into two or more viable embryos, resulting in identical twins with identical genetic code.

    Illustration copyright SPL Image caption Modern technologies fertilization makes it theoretically possible to have an infinite number of children

    In general, such situations happen extremely rarely. So, in 2012 in Britain, the chance of having twins was only 1.5% of all pregnancies, triplets - an insignificant three ten thousandths of a percent, and four or more babies were born three times out of 778,805 times. This is evidenced by statistics from the Multiple Births Foundation.

    Yes, the tendency to give birth to twins can indeed be hereditary, and in the wife of Fyodor Vasiliev it could be especially pronounced.

    However, in general, the likelihood that Vasilyeva was somehow able to conceive and survive the birth of at least 16 twins looks microscopic.

    “Are there 16 twins alone? I would be very surprised,” Tilly comments.

    Another alarm bell in the Vasilievs’ story: it is alleged that 67 of the 69 children born to them survived infancy.

    In the 18th century, infant mortality was high even for children born as a result of singleton pregnancies, and reached alarming levels in the case of twins and so on - these children were usually premature and less healthy.

    Now surrogate mothers can carry embryos from other parents, which potentially further increases the number of children in the family

    "Even if you had quadruplets today, I'm not sure they would all survive," says James Segars.

    Finally, it is impossible to believe in the existence of a woman ready for such a life. “Just imagine how stressful it is!” - says Valerie Baker.

    Segars echoes her: “You could go crazy! I can’t imagine what it was like to live in this house.”

    If, after all, this story is true and not a legend, then the endless need to take care of children could be the decisive reason for the Vasilievs’ divorce, which followed several decades of marriage.

    Already an elderly man, Fyodor Vasiliev remarried, and his new wife allegedly gave birth to “only” 18 children. This is about topics for the yellow press.

    Brave New World

    So what is the actual limit? The answer to this question is not so simple, since the “natural” restrictions that apply to the offspring of an individual woman can now be circumvented.

    Firstly, the development of assisted reproductive technologies (ART), which appeared in the late 1970s, led to a surge in the birth rate of twins, triplets, and so on (Nadya Suleman used ART).

    Illustration copyright SPL Image caption According to one researcher, there may someday be a way to activate a woman's ability to produce many times more eggs.

    Secondly, surrogate mothers can now carry embryos from other parents, which potentially further increases the number of children in the family.

    But here's what scientists recently found out: we probably greatly underestimate women's reproductive capabilities.

    According to the last years According to research, inside women's ovaries there are “oocyte stem cells”, the proper stimulation of which could lead to the creation of an almost infinite number of eggs.

    Jonathan Tilley and his colleagues collected information about these cells from creatures ranging from flies to monkeys.

    In 2012, they reached the stem cells of human oocytes. As it turned out, they do not contribute to the production of eggs, unlike similar animal cells. For female flies, this is a common way to produce new eggs.

    In principle, women could become mothers to hundreds or even thousands of children

    Many doctors working in his field express doubts, but Jonathan Tilly is confident: there is a theoretical possibility of activating this mechanism in women.

    He hopes to help women whose egg reserves have been depleted, including prematurely, such as due to cancer treatment.

    If this hypothetical procedure were to actually be possible, one would imagine that fertility drugs would be used to hyperstimulate the ovaries, causing multiple follicles to mature and ovulate simultaneously.

    These many eggs can be surgically removed and fertilized in vitro, and then surgically placed into the wombs of any number of surrogate mothers, whose task is to carry the embryos. Each could potentially give birth to two or more twins.

    Illustration copyright SPL Image caption Men are capable of becoming fathers to hundreds of children. What if science gives women this opportunity too?

    Thus, from a reproductive point of view, women could move closer to men, becoming mothers to hundreds or even thousands of children - leaving far behind the achievements of Fyodor Vasiliev's wife.

    However, Tilly makes it clear that his research in no way suggests that women will be able to have thousands of children. He intends to help eliminate infertility in those diagnosed with infertility.

    However, the researcher hopes that scientific advances will help equalize the reproductive capabilities of men and women.

    After all, males produce millions of sperm throughout their lives, so the only natural limitation of their offspring is the presence (or absence) of ovulating partners.

    When it comes to the idea that restrictions on female fertility might be lifted, everyone starts going crazy Jonathan Tilley

    Conqueror (and some say serial rapist) Genghis Khan apparently fathered hundreds of children born across his vast Asian empire some 800 years ago. According to genetics, about 16 million people living today are his descendants.

    "Theoretically, men can become fathers until very old age, and if you start early, the situation could develop like Genghis Khan," says Jonathan Tilly.

    According to him, “male fertility is actually unlimited,” but based on what his research will give desired result, then “women’s too.”

    If such a scenario does come true, the existence of mothers with countless children will create a sensation, perhaps even greater than the 69 Vasiliev children.

    The question is: How would the public react to multiple fatherhood? If it's not so violent, is that fair?

    “People take unlimited male fertility as a given - everyone knows we can do it,” Tilly explains. “But as soon as it comes to the idea that restrictions on female fertility might be lifted, everyone starts going crazy.”

    The researcher believes that the issue needs to be put into perspective and the equality that women have deservedly fought for over the past few decades should also apply to issues of reproduction.

    Tilly says this about this: “In fact, there should be no difference between the sexes.”

    According to the Guinness Book of Records, a Russian woman gave birth to the most children in the 18th century: she gave birth to 69 children in 30 years.


    The Guinness Book of Records records that the most children were born in the 18th century by a Russian woman, about whom it is only known that she was the wife of the peasant Fyodor Vasilyev. Over 30 years, she gave birth 27 times: 16 pairs of twins, 7 triplets and 4 quadruplets. There are 69 children in total.

    By the way, after the death of his first wife, Fyodor Vasiliev married again, and his second wife gave birth to 18 more children: six twins and two triplets. However, even this result does not allow us to consider Fyodor Vasilyev the most father of many children in history. But the record of the nameless peasant woman has not yet been broken.

    There is probably not a single country where Mother's Day is not celebrated. It appeared in Russia relatively recently - it has been celebrated on the last Sunday of November since 1998, but it is gradually entering Russian homes. And this is wonderful: no matter how many good ones kind words No matter what we told our mothers, there would still be few of them.

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    The most unusual mothers

    The mother who gave birth to the tiniest baby. Baby Mahajabina Sheikh at birth weighed 243.81 g with a height of 10 cm.

    The oldest mother. Indian woman Rayo Devi Lohan gave birth for the first time at 70 years old.

    Lina Medina became the youngest mother. The girl gave birth to a child when she was 5 years and 7 months old.

    A mother who gave birth to eight children at one time. Nadia Denise Daud-Suleman Gutierrez gave birth in 2009, and six more children were waiting for her at home.

    The world record for the difference between births is set by Elizabeth Ann. She gave birth to her first child in 1956, when she was 19 years old, and her second son was born when her mother was already 60 years old. Thus, the difference was 41 years.

    Record number of births

    Elizabeth Greenhill, a resident of Great Britain, was included in the Guinness Book of Records for the largest number of births. This woman gave birth 38 times. And only once did she have twins. Elizabeth died in 1681, leaving behind a “rich” inheritance in the form of 32 daughters and 7 sons.

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    Age– 4.54 billion years

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    Only another mother-heroine from Italy, Maddalena Granata, can compare with Elizabeth. During her life, she was pregnant 15 times and each time she gave birth to 3 children at once.

    There are also cases in history multiple pregnancy, when one woman gave birth to 11 children at once. This happened at the end of the twentieth century in the USA and Bangladesh. In both cases, not a single child survived.

    Record number of embryos

    Unfortunately, in almost all cases of multiple pregnancies (more than 10 embryos), even if it comes to childbirth, the chances of survival for such babies are negligible. In 1971, in Italy, Dr. Gennaro Montanino performed an abortion on a 35-year-old woman, from whose uterus he removed 15 embryos! 5 of them were male, and 10 were female. The operation was carried out for a period of 4 months. After lengthy investigations, doctors came to the conclusion that such an anomaly had become side effect taking fertility pills.

    That same year, a woman in Australia gave birth to 9 children - 5 boys and 4 girls. 2 boys were stillborn, the rest of the children lived no more than a week.

    At various times in the mid-twentieth century, reports came from China, Brazil and Spain about the birth of 10 children at once. There is no information about whether the babies survived or not.

    At the beginning of 2009, a resident of the United States, Nadya Suleiman, gave birth to eight children at once. The media gave her the nickname "Octomom". The weight of six boys and two girls ranged from 800 to 1400 g. All children are alive and well. It is noteworthy that the American woman was never married and already had six children before these births.

    Largest number of children born to one woman

    History knows a woman who gave birth to 69 children. The wife of a Russian peasant gave birth 27 times between 1725 and 1765. The woman gave birth to 4 children 4 times, 3 times 7 times and twins 16 times. All but two children survived.

    Another fertile mother is Leontina Albina from Chile. She gave birth to 55 children, and the first 5 times 3 babies were born and only boys.

    The most numerous father in history

    For some reason, all records concerning children are tied to mothers. However, history also knows the father with many children - Yakov Kirillov. From his first marriage he had 57 children, and from his second – 15. In total, it turns out that the man became a father 72 times. For this, in 1755 he was presented to the court at the age of 60.

    Record-breaking grandfather

    Another man has set a kind of record in the field of childbirth. This is a modern resident of Novokuznetsk Alexey Shapovalov. He is called the richest grandfather in the world. Alexey has 11 sons and two daughters, who gave him a total of 117 grandchildren. They, in turn, have already managed to “reward” the grandfather with 33 great-grandchildren.

    So much so that no one can beat him to this day. The woman gave birth to sixty-nine children - 69!

    Only two babies died during childbirth. The Russian record holder gave birth to sixteen twins, seven triplets and four times quadruplets. And all this in twenty-seven births over thirty years. After the death of his wife, Fyodor Vasiliev found new wife- potential mother. The second wife gave the restless peasant eighteen more children. By the way, even after this, Fyodor Vasiliev did not break the Guinness record for the birth of children as a father of many children. The Guinness Book of World Records has recorded a staggering number of children from one father. The most prolific pope is a Moroccan ruler who lived in the first half of the eighteenth century. He helped give birth to three hundred and forty-two girls and seven hundred boys. But the results of our contemporaries are not so impressive. There is now a woman living in Chile who has set a Guinness record for having children in the twenty-first century. Leontina Albina gave birth to fifty-five children. In total, she was “on maternity leave” for about forty years. The first five times the woman gave birth exclusively to triplets. Moreover, only boys were born in triplets.

    There are many more interesting and new records from the Guinness Book in our VK group

    The record for the largest number of births was set by the Englishwoman Elizabeth Greenhill, who lived in the seventeenth century. She gave birth thirty-nine times.

    As a result, she had thirty-nine children, among whom was a real “battalion of women” - thirty-two girls and only seven boys. The Guinness record for giving birth to children at one time belongs to American Bobbie McCaughey and resident Saudi Arabia Hasne Mohammed Humair. Both women gave birth to seven live babies at one time. Australian Geraldine Broadwick managed to give birth to nine children at once, but, unfortunately, only seven survived. Two were stillborn. Eight children were carried by Nkem Chukwu from the USA. She managed to give birth to only one naturally; the others were born with the help of doctors (surgery C-section). One child died during childbirth. Lina Medina became a mother at the age of five and a half. The Guinness record for the birth of children in the category “Oldest mother” was set by the Italian Rosanna Dalla Corta. She managed to give birth at sixty-three years old. Arsely Kekh from the USA also gave birth at the same age. Rosanna Dalla Corta was treated for infertility for a long time and believed that someday she would know the happiness of motherhood. The heaviest child was born weighing ten kilograms, and the smallest one weighing two hundred and eighty-one grams.

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