Vladislav Korsak, Professor, Doctor of Medical Sciences, President of the Russian Association for Human Reproduction, said that the concept of a norm in reproduction does not exist. One woman can bear and give birth to five children, the other at best one. This can only be found out experimentally. Doctors have determined only the optimal frequency of childbirth - in order for the body to recover, the break between them must be at least 2 years. Of course, modern conditions and advances in medicine allow a woman to become a mother even when her health does not allow her.

In order for a woman to bear and safely give birth to a child, her body needs to recuperate. A woman's childbearing age is limited: on average, it is 25-27 years old, from about 18 to 45. Of course, there are cases when childbirth occurs at a much earlier or later age, but this is rather an exception. If we assume that a woman will only be engaged in bearing and giving birth to children, then on average during her reproductive period she will be able to give birth to 12 to 14 children, if we assume that each of her pregnancies will be singleton. Multiple pregnancies increase the risks for both the mother and the baby. The largest number of children born at the same time is currently considered the eight Nadia Suleman, whom she, with the help of doctors, gave birth to in 2009.

Recall that Elizabeth Greenhill from Great Britain is considered the record holder for the number of births. She gave birth 38 times and gave birth to 7 boys and 32 girls. The mother with many children is the wife of the Russian peasant Fyodor Vasiliev, who, according to official figures, gave birth to 69 children from 1725 to 1765. The woman gave birth 27 times and gave birth to 16 twins, 7 triplets and 4 times 4 twins. Of 69 children, 66 survived to adulthood

The birth of one baby is a classic of the genre of nature in relation to the Crown of Creation, man. However, "thanks" to our intervention in nature and the development of artificial insemination technology, multiple pregnancies are no longer uncommon.

Twins and triplets are no longer a feature. Women give birth to five, eight and even 11 children at once. We offer you to look at these courageous mothers, who at one time created for themselves a large, large family.

The identical 14-year-old twins were born in a quartet: Megan, Sarah, Kendra and Callie Durst became famous at the age of 6, and are now filming a reality show about their lives.
As of 2005, 15 identical quadruplets were born in the world, 10 of them are sisters, but there are much more non-identical “fours”. According to statistics, one quadruplet falls on 700 thousand pregnancies.

The most famous, first and only case of the birth of five identical twins is the Canadian Dionne family. The girls were born in 1934 and for many years were a landmark of the province of Ontario, and according to the twins themselves, their fate was not enviable.

In 2013, five were born in Salt Lake City - 3 girls and 2 boys. It is noteworthy that the pregnancy came naturally.

Last year, 2016, Oksana Kobeletskaya, a 37-year-old woman from Odessa, gave birth to five, although the couple were expecting twins.

Nkem Chukwu from Texas in December 1998 gave birth to eight at once. Moreover, on December 8 she gave birth to a girl, and on the 20th - 5 more girls and two boys (one of the babies died shortly after giving birth).

In 2009, 33-year-old Nadi Suliman gave birth to eight twins at once - two girls and six boys. All children are alive and well, and this is the only case of the birth of eight, where all survived.

Nines were born in 1971, 1972, 1976, 1977, 1979 and 1999, however, unfortunately, none of these 54 children survived

Ten children - until today it was considered the largest number of children born from one pregnancy. In 1946, 8 girls and 2 boys were born in Brazil; there are also known cases of the birth of such a number of children in China in 1936 and in Spain in 1924. There is no information about whether the children survived.

A 42-year-old resident of the Indian city of Riley, Maria Fernandez, in 37 minutes, naturally, gave birth to 11 children. All are perfectly healthy boys, six of whom are identical twins. This phenomenon is listed in the Guinness Book of Records. Thus, today 11 children born from one pregnancy is an absolute record.

So much so that no one can still beat him. The woman gave birth to sixty-nine children - 69!

Only two babies died in childbirth. The Russian record holder had sixteen twins, seven triplets and four times four twins. And all this for twenty-seven genera over thirty years. After the death of his wife, Fedor Vasiliev found a new wife - a potential mother. The second wife gave the restless peasant eighteen more children. By the way, even after that, Fedor Vasiliev did not break the Guinness record for the birth of children as a father with many children. The Guinness Book of Records recorded a staggering number of children from the same father. The most prolific pope is a Moroccan ruler who lived in the first half of the eighteenth century. He helped to give birth to three hundred forty-two girls and seven hundred boys. But the results of our contemporaries are not so impressive. There is now a woman living in Chile who has set the Guinness record for having children in the twenty-first century. Leontina Albina gave birth to fifty-five children. In total, she was on maternity leave for about forty years. The first five times a woman gave birth exclusively to triplets. Moreover, only boys were born in threes.

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The record for the largest number of births was set by the Englishwoman Elizabeth Greenhill, who lived in the seventeenth century. She gave birth thirty-nine times.

As a result, she had thirty-nine children, among whom the real "Babskiy battalion" - thirty-two girls and only seven boys. The Guinness record for the birth of children at one time belongs to the American Bobbie McCogee and the resident of Saudi Arabia Hasna Mohammed Humair. Both women gave birth to seven live babies at a time. Australian Geraldine Broadwick managed to give birth to nine children at a time, but, unfortunately, only seven survived. Two were born dead. Eight children were borne by Nkem Chukwu from the USA. She managed to give birth to only one naturally, others were born with the help of doctors (caesarean section). One child died in childbirth. Lina Medina became a mother at the age of five and a half. The Guinness record for the birth of children in the category "Oldest Mom" ​​was set by Italian Rosanna Dalla Corta. She managed to give birth at sixty-three years old. At the same age, she gave birth to Arcelie Keh from the USA. Rosanna Dalla Korta was treated for infertility for a long time and believed that she would someday know the happiness of motherhood. The heaviest child was born with a weight of ten kilograms, and the smallest one with a weight of two hundred and eighty-one grams.

Guinness Book of Records

Motherhood

Most children

The largest number of children born to one mother, according to official figures, is 69. According to reports made in 1782, in the period between 1725 and 1765. The wife of the Russian peasant Fedor Vasiliev gave birth 27 times, while giving birth to twins 16 times, triplets 7 times and 4 twins 4 times. Of these, only 2 children died in infancy.

Of our contemporaries, the most prolific mother is Leontina Albina (or Alvina) from San Antonio, Chile, who in 1943-81. gave birth to 55 children. As a result of the first 5 pregnancies, she gave birth to triplets, and exclusively male.

Gave birth most times

A record 38 births are said to have been given by Elizabeth Greenhill of Abbots Langley, c. Hertfordshire, UK. She had 39 children - 32 daughters and 7 sons - and died in 1681.

The oldest woman in labor

At the age of 63, on 18 July 1994, Rosanna Dalla Corta from Viterbo, Italy gave birth to a boy; before that, she underwent fertility treatment. According to a report from the University of Southern California, 63-year-old Arcely Keh also gave birth to a child in 1996.

Newborn

128 days ahead of schedule, Brenda Gill's son James Gill, Ottawa Ave., Ontario, Canada, was born on May 20, 1987. was 624 BC

The longest intervals between births in multiple pregnancies

Peggy Lynn from Huntington, pc. Pennsylvania! USA, gave birth to a girl Hannah on November 11, 1995 and the second of the twins, Eric, only after 84 days (February 2, 1996).

The longest separation between two twins

Iris Jones and Aro Campbell (b. 1914) met after 75 years apart.

Multiple births

Siamese twins

The united twins became known as "Siamese" after the Chang and Eng Bunkers were born fused in the sternum on May 11, 1811 in the Meklong area of ​​Siam (Thailand). They were married to Sarah and Adelaide Yates from pc. North Carolina, USA, and had 10 and 12 children, respectively. They died in 1874, and with a difference of 3 hours.

The most extreme form of this phenomenon is a human being with two heads, four arms and two legs. (dicephales tetrabrachius dipus). The only recorded case of this kind is Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapovs, born in January 1950. in USSR.

The first successful operation to separate Siamese twins was performed on December 14, 1952 at Mount Sinai Hospital, Cleveland, pc. Ohio, USA, Dr. Jacques S. Geller.

The largest number of multiple births in one family

Maddalena Pomegranates from Italy (b. 1839) gave birth to triplets 15 times.

There is also information about the birth on May 29, 1971 in Philadelphia, pcs. Pennsylvania, USA, and May 1977 in Bagarhat, Bangladesh, 11 twins. In both cases, no child survived.

Centenarians

Oldest person (documented)

In Arles, France, 122-year-old Jeanne Louise Calma, born on February 21, 1875, died in August 1997. The oldest person to date is Maria Louise Febron-Mailer, avenue Quebec, Canada, who is 116 years old.

Oldest twins

February 14, 1803 in Effington, pcs. Virginia, USA, born Eli Shadrak Phipps and John Meshak Phipps. Eli was the first to die at the age of 108. It was February 23, 1911.

The oldest triplets

Faith, Hope and Charity Cardwell were born in Elm Mott, pc. Texas, USA, May 18, 1899 Faith was the first to die on October 2, 1994 at the age of 95.

The oldest quadruple

Adolph, Anna Maria, Emma and Elizabeth Ottman were born on May 5, 1912. in Munich, Germany. The first to die on March 17, 1992 at the age of 79 was Adolf.

Most descendants

In countries where polygamy is legal, a person can have innumerable children. They say that the Sultan of Morocco Moulay Ismail (1672-1727) by 1703 had 525 sons and 342 daughters, and in 1721, when he was 49 years old, he became the father of his 700th son.

On the day of his death at the age of 96 in October 1992, Samuel S. Maet of Freiberg, WA. Pennsylvania, USA, had a total of 824 living descendants: 11 children, 97 grandchildren, 634 great-grandchildren, and 82 great-great-grandchildren.

Descendants spanning the largest number of generations

Augusta Bunge from pcs. Wisconsin, USA, January 21, 1989, at the age of 110, became a great-great-great-grandmother when her great-great-great-granddaughter had a son, Christopher John Ballig.

Most living ancestors

At the time of her birth in 1982, Megan Sue Austin, Bar Harbor, PA. Maine, USA, had 19 direct ascendants, which included a full complement of grandparents, great-grandparents, and 5 great-great-grandparents relatives.

Most fertile pregnancies

Dr. Gennaro Montanino, Rome, Italy, claims to have removed 10 girls and 5 boys from the uterus of a 35-year-old woman who had a 4-month pregnancy in July 1971. This unique case of 15-fertility was the result of taking fertility pills.

9 children - the largest number in a single pregnancy - were born on June 13, 1971 by Geraldine Broadrick in Sydney, Australia. 5 boys and 4 girls were born: 2 boys were stillborn, and none of the rest lived more than 6 days.

The births of 10 twins (2 boys and 8 girls) are known from reports from Spain (1924), China (1936) and Brazil (April 1946).

Infectious diseases

"Ancient" diseases

Already in 1350 BC. in ancient Egypt, cases of leprosy were described.

Egyptian mummies that have survived since the 20th dynasty (1250-1000 BC) show traces of such an infectious liver and kidney disease as (Tuberculosis Schistosomiasis).

The biblical Old Testament mentions and.

"Newest" disease

Most recently, an infectious disease has been discovered, which is a new type of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, leading to dementia. In all likelihood, the disease is caused by a tiny piece of protein called a prion. It is transmitted to humans from bovine spongiform encephalitis (BSE) cattle.

Most common disease

The most widespread infectious disease is upper respiratory tract disease. There are at least 40 different viruses (transmitted either through the air or by direct contact) that cause symptoms such as sneezing, sore throat, watery eyes, runny nose, headache, and mild fever.

The rarest disease

The rarest disease now is smallpox. In May 1978, the World Health Organization (WHO) had not reported a single case of smallpox in the past 6 months. The last fatal smallpox case occurred in August 1978. A sample held for research purposes contracted a photographer working in a laboratory at the University of Birmingham, UK.

The most dangerous diseases

A mortality rate of over 50% is observed in Lassa fever, an epidemic disease caused by a rare West African virus. A very high mortality rate was also noted in cercopithecus hemorrhagic fever (Marburg virus disease) and Ebola fever.

Since 1900, cholera has claimed an estimated 20 million lives in India. During epidemic outbreaks, untreated death rates can be as high as 50%.

Less common is yellow fever, a viral disease spread by mosquitoes. It reportedly kills 10-90% of cases.

The most dangerous malaria infection

A unique case in modern medicine. A Tunisian named Marwan is preparing to give birth to 12 children: six boys and six girls. She is now 9 months pregnant. Modern science has not yet known a single case of the birth of a dozen twins at the same time, ITAR-TASS reports.

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will be the result of a special course on the medical promotion of pregnancy. Previously, Marwan twice unsuccessfully tried to give birth. As a result, a group of doctors applied a new technique, which a number of experts have already called "irresponsible."
However, the upcoming twins' dozen couple living in the town of Gafsa, southwest of the Tunisian capital, are delighted at the event. Marwan's husband has already called the news of such a large number of offspring "an amazing and wonderful miracle."

Marwan believes that she will be able to give birth to 12 children naturally, but doctors say that this is impossible and she will have to have a cesarean section.

To date, the "record holder" for the number of children born at one time - 8 twins - is the American Nadia Suleiman. She gave birth last January. Twins were also conceived using modern medical techniques. Nadia Suleman already had six children, and she became pregnant with the help of artificial insemination. At the same time, 33-year-old Suleman lives with her parents on social benefits, having neither a husband nor a job. Nadia Suleman was then offered to improve her financial situation by American pornographers - the owner of the pornographic studio Vivid Entertainment promised her a million dollars and medical insurance for children for her candid shooting. In general, after the birth of children, Nadia Suleman literally received a stream of proposals - to publish a book, participate in a TV show, etc. Angels in Waiting, a California charity, offered shelter and 24-hour assistance to the woman and her children. For the first time in the history of world medicine, a woman gave birth to eight children in Houston in 1998. One infant passed away a week later, and the other seven celebrated their 10th anniversary last December.

In 2002, a resident of the American state of Alabama had six babies at once - four boys and two girls. The smallest of the newborns weighed less than 500 grams, the largest - about 800. Childbirth was accompanied by a cesarean section, and each of the babies was born with an interval of three minutes. The gestation period of the newly-made mother at this time was 26 and a half weeks, while childbirth at 40-42 weeks of pregnancy is considered normal. The families of Diamond and her husband Christopher already had twins, though not in such numbers. The couple also have a 7-year-old son, Dewane. In the same year, a mother from Kansas also gave birth to six children at once. Doctors at the Wichita Regional Medical Center then reported that only 96 cases of the birth of gears had been recorded in the world since the beginning of the last century.

In Sochi, a rare medical case of the birth of a child with a mirror-like arrangement of internal organs was recently recorded. An incorrect position of one or more organs occurs in one in 10,000 births. Doctors discovered such an inversion in a girl who was born on time, but was very weak. According to the deputy chief physician of the city children's hospital, Khamzat Isaev, where the newborn was transferred on the second day after birth, this is the first such case for Sochi. "The child's condition is stable, we support breathing with the help of the apparatus, since amniotic fluid was swallowed, another diagnosis was unexpressed pneumonia," said Khamzat Isaev. There were no other serious abnormalities in the health of the unusual newborn. Doctors assure that there is no need for organ transplantation yet, but the girl will be under constant monitoring by doctors.

In the first six months, 408.2 thousand boys and more than 380 thousand girls were born in Russia. The growth in the birth rate in the country during this time was 4 percent. According to the Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation, the average height of babies is 51.91 cm, and the average weight is 3.36 kg. In terms of fertility this year, the leaders are the Central Federal District, the Volga and Southern Federal Districts. Least of all children were born in the Far East. The maximum "growth" of the population this year was recorded in March. There are more twins and triplets born in the country. And three women from Moscow and the Primorsky Territory had four children at once.

The factors affecting the birth rate of twins are currently poorly understood. There is data showing that the likelihood of having dizygotic twins increases with the age of the mother, as well as the serial number of the birth. There is also evidence of a decline in the frequency of twin births in almost all industrialized countries.