Twins and triplets today can hardly surprise anyone. Here are identical, identical, twins are less common. However, there are records of the simultaneous birth of children, awarded the Guinness Book of Records.
Instructions
Step 1
Perhaps, fours and fives are worthy of special attention. According to statistics, simultaneous fertilization with four spermatozoa occurs on average 1.5 times per million. In the 20th century, there were only 15 quartets of identical twins in the world, 10 of them were girls. There are much more different quartets. The oldest of them - Edna, Wilma, Sarah and Helen Morlock from Michigan - are now 84 years old.
Step 2
Of the five Dion sisters, identical twins born in Canada 80 years ago, all survived at birth. It was a real sensation at the time. The family of girls immediately received a large house, where people constantly came to see this miracle of nature. One of the girls died in 1954, the second in 1964. Three are still alive.
Step 3
Very rarely, a record multiple pregnancy ends in a successful birth. For example, out of six babies born at the same time in the Bushnell family (1886, Chicago), only four survived. But the gear wheels from South Africa, born in 1974, were more fortunate - all the children survived. Today there are 14 sextets in the world, of which three live in America and three in Great Britain.
Step 4
It turns out that the records of the simultaneous birth of children are not so rare. For example, Bobby McCogee (USA, 1997), Hasna Mohammed Humayr (Saudi Arabia, 1998) and Ghazalu Khamis (Egypt, 2008) gave birth to seven children each. All births took place by caesarean section, and in the latter case, the children were full-term and healthy, which is extremely rare in multiple pregnancies.
Step 5
Apparently, women have a natural rivalry in the field of motherhood. Nadia Suleiman, who became pregnant with IVF, gave birth to eight children, inspired by Gazalu Khamis's record, in early 2009. It is noteworthy that the young woman already had six babies. Now 39-year-old Nadia is a mother of 14 children.
Step 6
Not a single record multiple pregnancy - 9 children at the same time, according to the Guinness Book of Records, ended happily. In 1999, the nines were born to a 29-year-old Malaysian woman who had previously been persistently treated for infertility. Children - five girls and four boys, were premature and lived only 5 hours. Also, the birth of such a number of children was registered in Australia (1971), Philadelphia (1972), England (1976), Bangladesh (1977), Italy (1979). There was not a single surviving child among them.
Step 7
There are also known cases when women carried 10 or more children. True, all babies died during childbirth. And the most famous record belongs to an Italian woman, from whose womb in 1971, after 4 months of pregnancy, a doctor removed 15 embryos. It is not known what would have happened if they had all evolved.
