The mother, 25-year-old Halima Cisse, gave birth to the babies by cesarean section on Tuesday in Morocco after being sent there for special care, Mali’s top health official announced.Īssociated Press reporters saw some of the babies wiggling their hands and feet inside incubators Wednesday in the private Ain Borja clinic in Casablanca. The five girls and four boys, and their mother, “are all doing well,” Mali’s health minister said in a statement. It appeared to be the first time on record that a woman had given birth to nine surviving babies at once. Reporter Kimberly Ross can be reached at 225-8339 or at note: For more, check back later or look in tomorrow's Record Searchlight.BAMAKO, Mali (AP) - A Malian woman has given birth to nine babies at once - after expecting seven, according to Mali’s Minister of Health and the Moroccan clinic where the nonuplets were born. But obviously we love her and we support her, and now Ian has a little brother," Myers said. Giving birth is hard at any age, in any body, let alone with her being 62. "I believe our only hesitation collectively was her health and her coming through this. The Record Searchlight independently verified Wulfs age. Still, family members had reservations when they learned Wulf was pregnant. Shes got more than enough love to give," said Myers, who had a baby of her own four months ago. Wulfs daughter, Desiree Myers, 28, of Orland came to the hospital to congratulate her mother. Wulf said she has 20 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Another son died when he was in his his 30s, and another died at birth with undeveloped lungs. With her two previous husbands, her children range in age from 24 to 40, one of Wulfs daughters said. They boys are the youngest of Janise Wulfs 10 living children. Wulf is diabetic and began to experience signs of swelling and higher blood pressure late this week, leading her doctor to suggest performing the Caesarean a week earlier than planned, Scott Wulf said.įamily members said Wulf lost a lot of blood during Ians birth. "I never even dared to hope that it was possible," he said of his two sons. He had always dreamed of being a father, but his previous wife was infertile, he said. The two boys are the first children of Wulfs husband of seven years, Scott Wulf, 48, who is retired after a career in the U.S. "I hate to raise one alone, without a sibling," Wulf said. In Redding, baby Adam Charles Wulf came with a crown of reddish hair, like his 31/2-year-old brother, Ian, who was also born with a fertilization specialists help. She was aided by artificial insemination. 15, 2005, was the oldest woman to give birth. News reports list Della Cortas age at 62 when she gave birth, however.Īnd the Associated Press reported that a 66-year-old Romanian woman who had a Caesarean section Jan. They are Rosanna Della Corte of Italy in 1994 and Acheli Keh of California in 1996. The Guinness Book of World Records lists two 63-year-old women who have given birth. Hours later, doctors delivered a healthy, 6-pound 9-ounce baby boy by Caesarean section. "Every time you revolutionize something or you do something different, theres going to be naysayers," she said from a hospital bed at Mercy Medical Center in Redding. She was a synchronized swimmer in high school and did some acting then, too. The former piano and organ saleswoman loves to cook. Wulf, blind since birth, is used to a little skepticism, she said. Youre as old as you feel," she said as she waited for her babys delivery. Janise Wulf, who became pregnant through in vitro fertilization, said she considers her late-in-life pregnancy a groundbreaking act for older women. 17, 2006 0 Copyright 2006, Record Searchlight.Ī 62-year-old Redding great-grandmother gave birth Friday to her twelfth child, a boy perhaps becoming the fourth-oldest woman in the world to deliver a child.
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