A lady from Gauteng region in South Africa has given birth to ten children, shattering the Guinness World Record held by Malian Halima Cissé, who gave birth to nine children last month in Morocco.
Gosiame Thamara Sithole, 37, gave birth to her decuplets — two more than physicians had previously spotted during medical scans – at a hospital in Pretoria last night, according to her husband Teboho Tsotetsi, according to Pretoria News.
“There are seven lads and three girls in the group. She had been pregnant for seven months and seven days. I am content. I’m a sensitive person. I’m not able to say much. Please, let’s discuss in the morning,” Tsotetsi remarked.
Sithole claimed she was astonished and interested by the pregnancy in an interview last month at their family home in Tembisa, which was delayed at the couple’s request for safety and cultural reasons.
She claimed she was taken aback when physicians informed her she was having six children (sextuplets) early this year until subsequent tests revealed that she was actually carrying octuplets.
Sithole has smashed Cissé’s record for the most children delivered at the same time, which she set last month when she gave birth to nine children (nonuplets) at a Moroccan hospital.
Prior to Cissé, American Nadya Suleman, who gave birth to eight children in 2009, held the record for the most children born in a single delivery that survived. In vitro fertilization was used to create her octuplets.
