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A pregnant woman has given birth to nine babies after only expecting seven – after medics missed two children on the ultrasound.
Halima Cisse, 25, had believed she was giving birth to seven babies, joining a small group of mothers of nonuplets in doing so.
However, she discovered that scans conducted in Morocco and Mali had missed two of the siblings, when she gave birth to five girls and four boys, The Sun reports.
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All nine of the babies were delivered by caesarean section, Reuters reported.
Nonuplets are extremely rare, with medical complications often arising for both the mother and her babies.
Cisse’s pregnancy attracted the attention of Mali’s leaders, and when doctors saw Cisse was in need of specialist care, authorities flew her to Morocco, where she gave birth.
The private Ain Borja clinic in Casablanca, where she was treated, confirmed she gave birth there.
The clinic’s director Youssef Alaoui told Moroccan state TV that they had been contacted by Malian doctors about the case a month and a half ago.
They were not expecting nine babies, he said.
Cisse gave birth prematurely at 30 weeks and is now in stable condition after heavy bleeding for which she was given a blood transfusion.
The babies have been placed in incubators, said Dr Alaoui.
“The newborns (five girls and four boys) and the mother are all doing well,†Mali’s health minister, Fanta Siby, added in a statement.
They were due to return home in several weeks’ time, she added.
According to local press reports, doctors had been concerned about Cisse’s health, as well as her babies’ chances of survival.
Siby went on to offer her congratulations to the “medical teams of Mali and Morocco, whose professionalism is at the origin of the happy outcome of this pregnancyâ€.
This story was published by The Sun and reproduced with permission.
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