{"id":49955,"date":"2021-05-05T15:53:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T13:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioislam.org.za\/a\/?p=49955"},"modified":"2021-05-05T15:53:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T13:53:45","slug":"shocking-mali-woman-gives-birth-to-9-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/shocking-mali-woman-gives-birth-to-9-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocking: Mali Woman Gives Birth to 9 Babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_49957\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49957\" data-attachment-id=\"49957\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/shocking-mali-woman-gives-birth-to-9-babies\/holding-feet-of-baby\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/123550764_m.jpg?fit=2508%2C1672&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2508,1672\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark IV&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Close-up of careful black mother holding feet of baby in hands and enjoying time together, maternity concept&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1556192075&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;85&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;320&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Holding feet of baby&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Holding feet of baby\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Close-up of careful black mother holding feet of baby in hands and enjoying time together, maternity concept &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;File photo. Copyright: &lt;a href=&#039;https:\/\/www.123rf.com\/profile_seventyfour74&#039;&gt;seventyfour74&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/123550764_m.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49957\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/123550764_m.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"To show baby\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-49957\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo. Copyright: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.123rf.com\/profile_seventyfour74\">seventyfour74<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';color: black\">By Naadiya Adams<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';color: black\">In an exceptionally rare occurrence, a Malian woman has given birth to nonuplets (nine babies) who are believed to be \u201cdoing well\u201d according to the Malian government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';color: black\">25-year-old Halima Cisse was flown to Morrocco on March 30 by the Malian government where she would receive better care, she was believed to be carrying septuplets at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';color: black\">Cases of women successfully carrying septuplets to term are rare and nonuplets are virtually unseen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';color: black\">The Morrocan government has yet to make an announcement regarding the birth but Mali&#8217;s Ministry of Health released a statement that Cisse had given birth to five girls and four boys\u00a0by Caesarean section.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';color: black\">&#8220;The mother and babies are doing well so far,&#8221; Mali&#8217;s Health Minister Fanta Siby told AFP, adding that she had been kept informed by the Malian doctor who accompanied Cisse to Morocco.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';color: black\">The new mother of nine and her babies are set to return home in a few weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';color: black\">Multiple births are always risky and doctors were concerned for Cisse&#8217;s health, according to local reports while her babies&#8217; chances of survival were also very worrying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';color: black\">Ultrasound examinations conducted in both Mali and Morocco showed that Cisse was carrying seven babies, it was only at the time of the birth that the other two babies were discovered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';color: black\">Siby offered her congratulations and was quoted as saying &#8220;the medical teams of Mali and Morocco, whose professionalism is at the origin of the happy outcome of this pregnancy&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Naadiya Adams In an exceptionally rare occurrence, a Malian woman has given birth to nonuplets (nine babies) who are believed to be \u201cdoing well\u201d according to the Malian government. 25-year-old Halima Cisse was flown to Morrocco on March 30 by the Malian government where she would receive better care, she was believed to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4996,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-latest-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/123550764_m.jpg?fit=2508%2C1672&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-cZJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 13:28:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}