South African gives birth to 10 babies, breaks record

Pretoria (South Africa) June 9 - A South African woman, Gosiame Thamara Sithole, 37, has given birth to 10 babies, breaking the Guinness World Record. Sithole gave birth to her decuplets – two more than doctors had earlier detected during the medical scans – at a hospital in Pretoria on June 7, according to reports.

Sithole has broken the record of the most children born at the same birth held by Malian Halima Cissé, who gave birth to nine children (nonuplets) at a hospital in Morocco last month. Sithole, who hails from Tembisa Township in Ekurhuleni, delivered her seven boys and three girls by Caesarean section.

Sithole, who has six-year-old twins, previously has reportedly said that her pregnancy was natural as she was not on fertility treatment. “It’s seven boys and three girls. She was seven months and seven days pregnant. I am happy. I am emotional. I can’t talk much. Let’s talk again in the morning please,” her husband Tsotetsi said. Sithole said she was shocked and fascinated by the pregnancy.