Halima Cissé (born 21 March 1996) is the
Malian mother to the world's only nonuplets known to have survived birth.
Early life
Cissé was born in
Timbuktu
Timbuktu ( ; ; Koyra Chiini: ; ) is an ancient city in Mali, situated north of the Niger River. It is the capital of the Tombouctou Region, one of the eight administrative regions of Mali, having a population of 32,460 in the 2018 census.
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, Mali.
Prior to the birth of her nonuplets, she had one daughter named Sauda, with her husband, Adjudant Kader Arby, an army officer.
In 2021, she was a student.
Multiple births
When she was 25 years old, doctors believed that Cissé was pregnant with seven foetuses.
On 30 March 2021,
interim president
Bah Ndaw
Bah Ndaw (also spelled N'Daw, N'Dah, and N'Daou; born 23 August 1950) is a Malian retired military officer and politician who served as the president of Mali between 25 September 2020 and 24 May 2021 when he was overthrown during the 2021 Malia ...
instructed the
Government of Mali
Until the military coup of March 22, 2012 and a second military coup in December 2012 the politics of Mali took place in a framework of a semi-presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Mali is head of state with ...
to transport Cissé to
Casablanca, Morocco
Casablanca (, ) is the largest city in Morocco and the country's economic and business centre. Located on the Atlantic coast of the Chaouia plain in the central-western part of Morocco, the city has a population of about 3.22 million in the urb ...
, in order to give birth.
On 4 May 2021, her nine nonuplets were born prematurely at 30 weeks, by
caesarean section
Caesarean section, also known as C-section, cesarean, or caesarean delivery, is the Surgery, surgical procedure by which one or more babies are Childbirth, delivered through an incision in the mother's abdomen. It is often performed because va ...
and weighed between 500g and 1kg.
The birth date had been postponed as late as possible to increase the chance of the babies surviving.
The children were cared for in the Ain Borja clinic in Casablanca.
Cissé was also provided with medical care for one month and required surgery after the birth.
Her children are four boys named Muhammad, Bah, El Hadj and Oumar, and five girls named Adama, Hawa, Fatouma, Oumou, and Kadidia; they were all in "perfect health" as of their first birthday.
According to the parents and medical staff, the nine babies were conceived without medical assistance, unlike e.g. the
Suleman octuplets
The Suleman octuplets are six male and two female children conceived via in vitro fertilization (IVF) and subsequently born to Nadya Suleman on January 26, 2009, in Bellflower, California. Residing in Lancaster, California, they are the first kn ...
(who were conceived by
IVF
In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is a process of fertilisation in which an egg is combined with sperm in vitro ("in glass"). The process involves monitoring and stimulating the ovulatory process, then removing an ovum or ova (egg or eggs) from t ...
).
See also
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List of multiple births
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...
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Nadya Suleman
Natalie Denise Suleman (born Nadya Denise Doud-Suleman; July 11, 1975), known as Octomom in the media, is an American media personality who came to international attention when she gave birth to the first surviving multiple birth, octuplets in Ja ...
, mother of the first surviving
octuplets
A multiple birth is the culmination of a multiple pregnancy, wherein the mother gives birth to two or more babies. A term most applicable to vertebrate species, multiple births occur in most kinds of mammals, with varying frequencies. Such births ...
References
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1996 births
Living people
Multiple births
People from Timbuktu