Septuplets (7) The Frustaci septuplets (born 21 May 1985, in Orange, California) are the first septuplets to be born in the United States.
Ten babies in a multiple birth are called decuplets. Terms used for the number of offspring in a multiple birth: two offspring – twins. three offspring – triplets.
If the 12 – called duodecaplets – are all born alive they would represent a medical miracle and break the record of American mother Nadya Suleman, who recently gave birth to the world's longest-surviving octuplets.
Octuplets are a set of eight offspring born at one birth. An individual that is part of such a set is called an octuplet.
Multiple births of as many as eight babies have been born alive, the first surviving set on record goes to the Suleman octuplets, born in 2009 in Bellflower, California. As of 2019, all of them were alive and turned 10 years old.
– Decuplets: a combination of 10 of a kind. In this case, babies! A South African woman has reportedly given birth to 10 babies at once, besting a world record set just last month.
Gosiame Thamara Sithole's husband says they were astonished by decuplets after scans only showed eight in the womb. "It's seven boys and three girls. I am happy.
Nonuplets (9)
They were five boys and four girls; two of the boys were stillborn and the last of the surviving babies, a boy named Richard, died six days after the birth.
Monoamniotic-monochorionic Twins
These types of twins share a chorion, placenta, and an amniotic sac. This is the rarest type of twin, and it means a riskier pregnancy as the babies can get tangled in their own umbilical cords.
The term mirror twin is used to describe a type of identical, or monozygotic, twin pairing in which the twins are matched as if they're looking into a mirror — with defining characteristics like birthmarks, dominant hands, or other features on opposite sides.
What are mo/mo twins? Mo/mo is a shortened form of monochorionic monoamniotic. Mo/mo twins are those who share both the chorionic and amniotic sacs. Or to put it another way, since mono means “one,” a mo/mo pregnancy is one where there is one placenta and one amniotic sac for both babies.
The world's only nonuplets were photographed at home in Mali for the first time since they were born last year. Halima Cissé and husband Abdelkader Arby welcomed their nine babies — five girls and four boys — in Morocco in May 2021.
Because identical twins or triplets share genetic material, they are always the same sex. The sex of a baby is determined by the particular sperm cell that fertilizes the egg at conception.
The world's only living nonuplets — that is, nine babies from the same birth — are thriving and reaching their milestones, according to their father. "They're all crawling now.
The largest set to have even a single member survive is octuplets, in 1998 (with the seven surviving octuplets born in Texas). There have been a few sets of nonuplets (nine) in which a few babies were born alive, though none lived longer than a few days.
Nonuplets: Woman From Mali Gives Birth To 9 Babies.
Noun. nonuplet (plural nonuplets) A group of nine, particularly (music) a tuplet of nine notes. coordinate terms ▼ One of a group of nine, particularly one of nine babies born from the same mother at one time.
The term “Irish twins” refers to one mother having two children who were born 12 months or less apart. It originated in the 1800s as a way to poke fun at Irish Catholic immigrant families who didn't have access to birth control.
Some names for these are: Twins for 2 fetuses. Triplets for 3 fetuses. Quadruplets for 4 fetuses. Quintuplets for 5 fetuses.
Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara is the oldest verified mother; she was aged 66 years 358 days when she gave birth to twins; she was 130 days older than Adriana Iliescu, who gave birth in 2005 to a baby girl. In both cases the children were conceived through IVF with donor eggs.
The man who is thought to have fathered the most children of all time is Moroccan Sultan Ismail Ibn Sharif (1645 to 1727) with a total of more than 1,000, according to Guinness World Records.
The greatest officially recorded number of children born to one mother is 69. Her name is unknown, but we know she was the first wife of Feodor Vassilyev (b. 1707–c. 1782), a peasant from Shuya, Russia.