An Update on the Arby Nonuplets

You might recall back in 2021 that a woman from Mali had nine babies at once. Halima Cissé was flown to Casablanca, Morocco, and delivered four boys and five girls by Cesarian section, ten weeks before what would have been a normal due date. There had been a couple of cases of nonuplets born before, but none in which even one baby survived. Cissé's infants, who weighed between 1.1 and 2.2 pounds, were kept in a hospital nursery for months, and the family was joined by her husband Abdelkader Arby and older daughter Souda. They returned to Mali 18 months later. The Guinness Book of World Records awarded Cissé the world record for the most children delivered at a single birth to survive, surpassing Octomom's record.   



On May 4, Kadidia, Fatouma, Hawa, Adama, Oumou, Mohammed VI, Oumar, Elhadji, and Bah all turned four years old, and are thriving. People magazine has posted pictures of the family for the occasion. -via Fark