Ugandan mother has 44 children at just 40 years old. The mother who holds the world record for the most children has been warned by doctors that she may suffer serious health problems if she does not stop having children. (There are video animations in the article. If likes it, remember to like and follow it first~)
This woman from Uganda in East Africa is named Mariem Nabatanzi. has given birth to four sets of twins. , five pairs of triplets and five pairs of quadruplets. She gave birth to a child only once.
Six of her children died, and then her husband abandoned her and ran off with the family's money, leaving 38 children - 20 boys and 18 girls - to grow up with. .
Mariem Nabatanzi’s children all come from the same father.
According to the Post report, this great mother Nabatanzi came from the East African country of Uganda (Uganda). When she was 12 years old, she was sold by her parents to a neighbor as a child bride. She became pregnant the next year and gave birth to her first child at the age of 13. During this period, she was sold to a neighbor as a child bride. Pregnant with twins, triplets, and even quadruplets, six children died in the womb, and their irresponsible husband left them with their family property.
It can be said that Nabatanzi relied on extraordinary maternal love to More than 40 children grew up, and thus won the title of "Uganda Mom" that everyone admired.
Mariem Nabatanzi gave birth to 44 children at the age of 40.
According to World Bank data, Uganda's fertility rate is It’s frighteningly high, with the average woman giving birth to 5.6 children. The world’s average fertility rate is only 2.4 children.
She went to a health clinic, Nabatanz The doctor said: In general, the number of ovulations in women will vary with their physiology. The cycle changes, and Nabatanzi's ovaries are abnormally large, causing symptoms of excessive ovulation, which can no longer be controlled by ovulation period , and can secrete multiple eggs in just one week. The doctor diagnosed that the strong fertility is still It may be caused by genetic inheritance.
Mariem Nabatanzi's husband left her and took the family's money to take care of her dozens of children.
Various birth control methods are ineffective on her, and may also cause life-threatening, only She can be forced to keep giving birth to suppress ovarian function.
She recently turned 43 years old. Fortunately, she ended her last childbirth 3 years ago and successfully underwent uterine removal surgery.
"I grew up in tears, my man Put me through torture and misery."
Still, she mentioned that having so many children was "a gift from God."
However, her story is filled with sadness:
One of her sons told Joe through a translator. Hatab, whose mother is his "hero".
Nabatanzi and her children live in a village surrounded by coffee fields 31 miles north of Kampala. in a cramped house made of cement blocks and a corrugated iron roof.
Nabatanzi told reporters that a "kind woman" donated bunk beds for her children after her husband left her, but It can still get very crowded with 12 people in a room, two sleeping on a mattress.
Talking about her deadbeat ex-husband, Nabatanz used an expletive before she added: "I grew up in tears and my man put me through a lot of pain.
"All my time It's all spent taking care of my kids and working to make money. ”
Mariam Nabatanzi lives with her family in four cramped concrete houses.
Nabatanzi does her best to provide food for her children, doing anything to feed them, including picking up people’s hair to sell. , collect scrap metal and sell it to the garbage dump, brew homemade gin and sell herbal medicine.
But the money she earned was immediately used up by her 40 children to eat, clothe, see a doctor and go to school.
But on a dingy wall in her home hang photos of some of her children graduating from school.
Her eldest son, Ivan Kibuka, who is in his 20s, was forced to drop out of school when his mother could not afford it.
"Mum is overwhelmed," he said. "Work has overwhelmed her.
"We help where we can, like cooking and laundry, but she still bears the full burden of the family. "
But this mother firmly told reporters: She will do her best to nourish her babies.
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Reference materials collected by the editor:
In history, the number of women who can give birth is 18 century Russian peasant Valentina Vasilyev.
She is recorded as having given birth to a total of six children between 1725 and 1765 - 67 of whom survived infancy.
These included 16 sets of twins, Seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets. Her husband Feodor allegedly fathered six sets of twins and two sets of triplets with his second wife - who had 18 other children.
