Guinness Book of Records

Motherhood

Largest number of children

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

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

Has given birth the most times

Elizabeth Greenhill of Abbots Langley, c., allegedly gave birth a record number of times - 38 times. 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, Rosanna Dalla Corta of Viterbo, Italy, gave birth to a boy on July 18, 1994; Before this, she underwent treatment for infertility. According to a report from the University of Southern California, 63-year-old Arsely Keh also gave birth to a child in 1996.

Newborns

For 128 days ahead of schedule Brenda Gill gave birth to a son, James Gill, in Ottawa, Ontario Ave., Canada, on May 20, 1987. was 624

The longest intervals between births are due to multiple pregnancy

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

The most long separation two twins

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

Multiple births

Siamese twins

Conjoined twins began to be called “Siamese” after Chang and Eng Bunkers were born conjoined at the sternum in the Maeklong region of Siam (Thailand) on May 11, 1811. They were married to Sarah and Adelaide Yates of State. 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 Krivoshlyapov, born in January 1950. in USSR.

First successful separation operation conjoined twins produced December 14, 1952 at Mount Sinai Hospital, Cleveland, PC. Ohio, USA, Dr. Jacques S. Geller.

Largest number of multiple births in one family

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

There is also information about birth on May 29, 1971 in Philadelphia, pcs. Pennsylvania, USA, and in May 1977 in Bagarhat, Bangladesh, 11 twins. In both cases, not a single child survived.

Centenarians

Most an old man(documented)

In Arles, France, 122-year-old Jeanne Louise Calmat, born February 21, 1875, died in August 1997. Today, the oldest person is Marie Louise Febron-Mailer, Quebec Ave., Canada, who is 116 years old.

Oldest twins

February 14, 1803 in Effington, pc. Eli Shadrack Phipps and John Meshack Phipps were born in Virginia, USA. Eli was the first to die at the age of 108. It was February 23, 1911.

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.

Oldest quadruplets

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

Largest number of descendants

In countries where polygamy is legal, a person can have countless children. It is said 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, became the father of the 700th son.

On the day of his death at the age of 96 in October 1992, Samuel S. Maheth of Freiberg, Pc. 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 piece. Wisconsin, USA, became a great-great-great-great-grandmother on January 21, 1989, at the age of 110, when her great-great-great-granddaughter gave birth to her son, Christopher John Bollig.

Largest number of living ancestors

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

Most fertile pregnancies

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

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

Cases of the birth 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 preserved from the 20th dynasty (1250-1000 BC) showed traces of an infectious liver and kidney disease such as (Tuberculosis Schistosomiasis).

The biblical Old Testament mentions and.

“Newest” disease

At the very Lately an infectious disease has been discovered that is the new kind Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, leading to dementia. The disease is likely caused by a tiny piece of protein called a prion. It is transmitted to humans from cattle infected with bovine spongiform encephalitis (BSE).

Most widespread disease

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

A rare disease

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

The most dangerous diseases

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

Since 1900, cholera has claimed approximately 20 million lives in India. During epidemic outbreaks, if left untreated, the mortality rate can reach 50%.

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

The most dangerous malaria infection

The birth of one baby is a classic of the nature genre regarding 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 special feature. Women give birth to five, eight and even 11 children at once. We invite you to look at these courageous mothers, who at one time created a large, large family for themselves.

Identical 14-year-old twins were born as a quartet: Megan, Sarah, Kendra and Callie Durst became famous at the age of 6, and are now starring in a reality show about their lives.
According to data for 2005, 15 identical quadruplets were born in the world, 10 of them were sisters, but there are many more non-identical quadruplets. According to statistics, one quadruplet occurs in 700 thousand pregnancies.

The most famous, first and only case of the birth of quintuples identical twins- Canadian Dionne family. The girls were born in 1934 and long years were a landmark of the province of Ontario, and according to the twins themselves, their fate was not an enviable one.

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

Last year, 2016, 37-year-old Odessa resident Oksana Kobeletskaya gave birth to quintuplets, although the couple were expecting twins.

Nkem Chukwu from Texas gave birth to eight babies in December 1998. Moreover, on December 8 she gave birth to a girl, and on the 20th she gave birth to 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 - two girls and six boys. All children are alive and well, and this is the only case of octuplets where all survived.

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

Ten children - until today 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.

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

On July 18, 1994, 63-year-old Italian Rosanna Dala Corta gave birth to a child and set an age record that stood until 2005. After that he was beaten more than once. Life presents surprises every day, and those that relate to the mystery of the birth of a new person most often cause delight or bewilderment. Here are 10 of the most incredible records in the history of childbirth.

* Oldest mother: Italian Rosanna Dala Corta's record was broken in 2005 by 66-year-old Adriana Iliescu from Romania, and in 2008 by 70-year-old Omkari Panwar from India, who gave birth to twins (the children's father was 77 at the time). The babies were born weighing a little more than a kilogram, but healthy.

*Youngest mother:

By the age of four, her mammary glands were sufficiently developed, and at the age of 5, a characteristic expansion of the pelvic bones was already noted. Her son weighed 2.7 kg. She gave birth to her second child 33 years later.

* Record for speed of childbirth: Englishwoman Palak Weiss gave birth to a daughter weighing 3.5 kg in 2 minutes. This birth was considered the fastest.

10 most incredible records related to the birth of children

The waters broke, and after just one push, a healthy girl was born, who was named Vedika. And the Weiss family's first child, a boy, was born in just an hour.

* The shortest gap between births: Jane Bleakley gave birth to a son on September 3, 1999, and a daughter on March 30, 2000.

* Record for caesarean section: In Israel, a woman underwent a Caesarean section for the seventh time, giving birth to her ninth child.

* Growth oddities: Stacey Harald, whose height was 70 cm, gave birth to a girl 45 cm tall.

*Largest newborn: in 1879 in the USA, Anna Bates gave birth to a child weighing 10.8 kg and height 76 cm.

*Smallest surviving newborn: in December 1961, a baby weighing 283.5 g and height 30.4 cm was born in England. The girl was born 6 weeks prematurely. Surprisingly, the birth took place without the intervention of medical personnel.

* Largest number of children: A resident of Russia gave birth to 69 children to her husband. She gave birth to twins 16 times, triplets 7 times, and quadruplets 4 times.

* Largest number of births: Briton Elizabeth Greenhill gave birth 38 times - she had 32 daughters and 7 sons.

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A descendant of Fyodor Vasilyev was discovered in Vvedenye

The MS correspondent gained access to documents that shed light on the family secrets of Shuyanin, the father of 86 children, a Guinness Book record holder.

Let us remind our readers that the peasant of Shuisky district Fyodor Vasiliev, who in 2010 was nominated by the editors of MS as a candidate for the title “Name of Shuya,” became famous for being the father of 86 children. For comparison: Sultan of Morocco Moulay Ismail, who lived in the 18th century, had 700 sons and 342 daughters. Only he had not two wives, like the Shuya record holder, but a whole harem. That is why the name of Fyodor Vasiliev was officially included in the Guinness Book of Records, and it is unlikely that anyone in the world will be able to move the man from Shuisky district from this pedestal. Our newspaper dedicated many publications to Fyodor Vasiliev, proving that this man is worthy of installing at least some kind of memorial sign in his small homeland. However, we admit, we were confused by the fact that in the history of the Shuya record holder there were too many dark, insufficiently clear pages. And we didn’t even dare to dream about finding the descendants of a father with many children. And now, finally, we present to the readers what we managed to dig up in the archives and publications of past years, literally bit by bit. Finally, it was possible to connect documents that shed light on the history of the Vasilyev family. But we’ll tell you about everything in order, interspersing previously known information with information received by the MS correspondent recently.

Who is Fedor Vasiliev?

Fyodor Vasiliev (1704-1790) was born into the family of a monastic serf and was himself a serf, assigned to the Nikolo-Shartomsky monastery. He lived in the village of Vvedenskoye (now Vvedenye), and during the period of church reforms of Catherine the Great he was transferred to the category of “state-owned” peasants and moved to the Kufrino farm, which was located just a few fathoms from the village of Zheltonosovo, which at the beginning of the 18th century was territorially part of Shuisky district (now it is Ivanovo district). History is silent about the name of Fedor’s first wife, who gave birth to 69 children. But his second wife Anna, who gave him 17 children, was from the village of Melnichnoe.

By the way, Vasiliev is not a surname. Peasants in Rus' did not have surnames. It only meant a shortened form of his patronymic, that is, his father's name. Fyodor's son Alexey was already called Fedorov, Fyodor's grandson Egor was already called Alekseev, and so on.

The ancestral branch of the record holder

It was very difficult to feed such a large crowd of children. Children were sent to be raised in childless and small families. Thus, one of the sons of Fyodor Vasilyev - Alexey Fyodorov - was transferred to the village of Teplintsevo to the serf peasant of the landowner A.G. Plautina. In this village, Alexey grew up, got married, got a house, and gave birth to children Yegor, Stepan, and Vasily. Alexei’s grandchildren were born, raised, and started families here: Fedor, Ivan, Vasily, Flor. Grandson Vasily married Zakharya peasant woman Marya Antonova and moved to live in his father-in-law's house. In Zakharyin, Vasily’s sons, Photius and Nikifor, were born, raised and started families. Their cousin Yakov, who lived in Teplintsevo, took the surname Florov in honor of his father. Ivan and Vasily received the surname Egorov in honor of their father Egor. And Fyodor generally took the Parukhins’ surname, which was incomprehensible (at least to us). The descendants of Fyodor Vasilyev - free peasants - fled from the village of Teplintsevo. Zakhar Parukhin, enrolled in the ranks of the burghers, began trading in the city of Kokhma. The old people died, the young people left, their trace was lost. The children of Photius and Nikifor Vasilyev also left the village of Zakharyino. However, at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries, Yegor Fotievich, Pyotr Fotievich, Fyodor Nikiforov and his brothers Mikhail, Peter, Dimitri, Maxim returned to their native lands.

So numerous offspring of those Florovs, Vasilievs, Egorovs, Parukhins live in this world, not realizing that their ancestor is the legendary Fyodor Vasiliev.

How memory faded and was revived

Peasants were not nobles; they did not carry out “knee paintings.” But according to ancient traditions, they honored their father and mother, remembered a little about their grandfather and knew practically nothing about their great-grandfather. Gradually, in the 4th-5th generations, the memory of ancestor Fyodor Vasiliev began to fade. The unwitting culprit of this was Alexey, Fyodor’s son, who was being brought up by adoptive parents who considered him their own son and hid his true origins from him.

A woman from Russia gave birth to 69 children - a world record

The family legend about the “heroine mother” could not be actively passed on from generation to generation.

The revival of the memory of Fyodor Vasiliev began with the history teacher of the Zakharya school, local historian A. Dolgov, who came across A. Shirokogorov’s notes from 1870, telling about large family Fyodor Vasiliev. It was the son of the parish priest of the Vvedenskaya Church, Father Vasily, seminarian Sasha Shirokogorov who outlined the initial contours of the family tree of the Vasilyev family. He used the archives of the Church of the Presentation and the Nikolo-Shartomsky Monastery. Original version family tree The Vasilievs were further developed by the history teacher of the Zakharyinsky school A. Dolgov.

The editors would like to express their gratitude to Valentina Vasilyeva, a native of the village of Zheltonosovo, now living in the village. Introduction, descendant of Fyodor Vasiliev in the 7th generation, for help in writing the article.

The world's largest mother gave birth to 69 children

Guinness World Record for most children born

The birth of a child in a loving and caring family of happy parents #8212 what could be sweeter and more beautiful in life? Each future mom, should know how to properly prepare for childbirth. Therefore, we recommend that you read the information at the link above. However, history has recorded many amazing and interesting events directly related to the birth of children. We will talk about them in this article entitled “Records for the birth of children.”

1. First of all, let us note the fact that the officially recorded record for the number of children born to one person belongs to the wife of a peasant from Russia, Fyodor Vasiliev. So, according to reliable historical sources, in the period between 1725 and 1765. she gave birth to 69 children. Throughout her life, the woman was pregnant 27 times: 16 twins, 7 triplets, and 4 times 4 twins were born. An interesting fact: out of all the offspring, only 2 children died in infancy.

2. As for the modern birth rate record, it belongs to a resident of the Chilean city of San Antonio, Leontina Alvina: it is officially recorded that in the period from 1943 to 1981. in total, she gave birth to 55 children. It is noteworthy that as a result of the first five pregnancies, only triplets were born, and exclusively male ones.

3. According to unconfirmed data, the record for the number of births belongs to a resident of the British county of Hertfordshire, Elizabeth Greenhill - in total, she gave birth 38 times. In total, the Englishwoman had 39 children - 7 sons and 32 daughters. The woman lived in the second half of the 17th century in the city of Abbots Langley.

4. The oldest woman in labor of our time is considered to be a resident of the Italian city of Viterbo, Rosanna Dalla Corta: after a long course of treatment for infertility, at the age of 63, she gave birth to a son. This happened in 1994. 2 years later, through the efforts of doctors from the Medical University of California, local resident Arseli Kekh also gave birth to a son after a very long course of treatment for infertility.

According to official documents, the heaviest newborn baby in the world is the son born to Carmelina Fedele, a resident of the Italian city of Aversa. The hero's weight was a record 10.2 kg. By the way, the birth was surprisingly easy and without any complications.

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Guinness World Record for Births

The Guinness record for the birth of children was set by a Russian peasant woman, the wife of Fyodor Vasiliev, who lived in the eighteenth century. So much so that no one can beat him to this day. The woman gave birth to sixty-nine children! Only two babies died during childbirth.

The Russian record holder gave birth to sixteen twins, seven triplets and four times quadruplets. And all this in twenty-seven births over thirty years.

After the death of his wife, Fyodor Vasiliev found a new wife - a potential mother. The second wife gave the restless peasant eighteen more children. By the way, even after this, Fyodor Vasiliev did not break the Guinness record for having children as a father of many children. The Guinness Book of World Records has recorded a staggering number of children from one father. The most prolific pope is a Moroccan ruler who lived in the first half of the eighteenth century. He helped give birth to three hundred and 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 a 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 the woman gave birth exclusively to triplets. Moreover, only boys were born in triplets.

Record for the largest number birth was established 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 there was a real “battalion of women” - thirty-two girls and only seven boys.

The Guinness record for giving birth to children at one time belongs to American Bobbi McCaughey and resident Saudi Arabia Hasne Mohammed Humair. Both women gave birth to seven live babies at one time.

She broke the world record! The first woman to give birth to 11 children in one pregnancy!

Australian Geraldine Broadwick managed to give birth to nine children at once, but, unfortunately, only seven survived. Two were stillborn. Eight children were carried by Nkem Chukwu from the USA. She managed to give birth to only one naturally; the others were born with the help of doctors (caesarean section). One child died during 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 mother” was set by the Italian Rosanna Dalla Corta. She managed to give birth at sixty-three years old. Arsely Kekh from the USA also gave birth at the same age. Rosanna Dalla Corta for a long time was being treated for infertility and believed that someday she would know the happiness of motherhood.

The heaviest child was born weighing ten kilograms, and the smallest one weighing two hundred and eighty-one grams.

Video footage of how a woman gave birth to 10 children at once:

Who holds the absolute Guinness record for childbearing?

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

A Russian peasant from the Russian city of Shuya Fyodor Vasiliev (1707-1782) had 87 children from two marriages (.). The absolute record for childbearing belongs to his first wife.

11 records in childbirth

On July 18, 1994, 63-year-old Italian Rosanna Dala Corta gave birth to a child and set an age record that stood until 2005. We've collected 10 more incredible records in childbirth.

Lina Medina from Peru gave birth to a boy at the age of 5 years, 7 months and 17 days.

• Oldest mother: the record for an Italian woman was broken in 2005 by a 66-year-old woman, and in 2008 by a 70-year-old woman.
• Youngest mother: Lina Medina from Peru gave birth to a boy at the age of 5 years, 7 months and 17 days. By the age of four, her mammary glands were quite developed. and at the age of 5, a characteristic expansion of the pelvic bones was already noted. Her son weighed 2.7 kg. She gave birth to her second child 33 years later.
• Record for the speed of childbirth: Englishwoman Palak Weiss gave birth to a daughter weighing 3.5 kg in 2 minutes.
• The shortest gap between births: Jane Bleakley gave birth to a son on September 3, 1999, and a daughter on March 30, 2000.

• Caesarean section record: in Israel, a woman underwent a Caesarean section for the seventh time. giving birth to her ninth child.
• Growth oddities: Stacey Harald, whose height was 70 cm, gave birth to a girl 45 cm tall.
• The largest newborn: in 1879, a child was born in the United States weighing 10.8 kg with a height of 76 cm.

A resident of Russia gave birth to 69 children to her husband.

• The smallest newborn: in December 1961, a baby weighing 283.5 g was born in England. The girl was born 6 weeks prematurely.
• The largest number of children: a resident of Russia gave birth to 69 children to her husband. She gave birth to twins 16 times. 7 times - triplets and 4 times - four.
• The largest number of births: British woman Elizabeth Greenhill gave birth 38 times - she had 32 daughters and 7 sons.

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In the world I could not repeat or break this record. The advantage of the peasant woman was her genetics, which made it possible to produce children in 27 births. Vasilyeva gave birth to twins 16 times (another world record), triplets and four quadruplets were born seven times. Unfortunately, only 67 children survived to conscious age.

It is worth noting that this record is not the final point for Fedor Vasiliev himself. The peasant was married twice. In his first marriage, he gave birth to 20 more children. As a result, in big family there were 87 children. This fact was appreciated even by Catherine the Great, and information about such a numerous offspring was included in the book “Additions to the Acts of Emperor Peter the Great.”

Historians are still arguing about the order of birth of the children of the peasant Vasilyev. However, facts gleaned from house books and issues of the Vedomosti newspaper indicate the excessive fertility of the second wife.

The largest families of our time

If the record of the peasant Vasilyeva to this day has not been broken by a single woman, Fyodor Vasilyev himself was ahead of the modern Indian Zion Chan (Zion Khan) with a noticeable advantage. The polygamist will give birth to 94 children.

The Indian man was able to conceive so many children thanks to his wives - Zion Chan has 39 of them. The huge family lives in a multi-storey building. The wives of the sons and grandchildren of the hero father also live in it. According to the most conservative estimates, about 180 people live in the house.

According to the father of the family, they begin to prepare for dinner in their house before breakfast. As a rule, wives take part in cooking. To feed so many people, more than a dozen chickens and several carts of vegetables are spent on one meal.

In those countries where it is prohibited, records are distinguished by “modesty”. The closest person to Vasiliev's record was a resident of Chile, Leontina Albina. She managed to give birth to 55 children and was also included in the Book of Records.

Modern Russia has its own heroes of childbirth. Today they are Elena and Alexander Shishkin. The family (a branch of Christianity where abortion is strictly prohibited) produced 20 children. Nineteen of them still live with their parents, and the eldest son already has his own family and three children.

Active supporters of Christianity Bob and Michelle Duggar did not think about having a large family. Initially, their plans were to give life to two or three children. However, after the first baby and subsequent contraception, the woman had a miscarriage, which almost cost her life. After this, the husband and wife decided not to interfere with “God’s plans” and surrendered to the will of fate. As a result, they became one of the largest families in America, giving birth to and raising 19 children. There could have been more babies, but three of Michelle's births ended in the death of the babies.

The happiness of becoming parents does not come easily to everyone at will. Long gone are the days when people could only pray for the appearance of their babies, hoping for luck. Modern medicine offers childless couples many methods for realizing their cherished dreams, which sometimes leads to such unexpected results as multiple pregnancies.

Interesting pages of history

It is known for certain that in 1946, a Brazilian woman gave birth to ten offspring, born from one mother. History is silent about whether the kids were able to adapt to the world around them. Around the same time, similar numbers of births were recorded in Spain and China. About them future fate similarly, little is known.

A little more detail can be found about the eight twins of an American citizen, each of whom survived. Another American woman also set an unofficial record for childbearing: in 1998, she had eight children at once, and seven were not only saved from death, but also subsequently raised.

The feat of becoming parents of many children

What is special about pregnancy with several fetuses at once? The reasons that absolutely lead to multiple pregnancies are not always amenable to logical explanation, but there is also a completely scientific view. Recently, the appearance of several babies at once is a frequent consequence of the artificial insemination procedure, due to the specific features of its implementation. Previously, such cases occurred more likely as a result of a coincidence or hereditary predisposition

In addition, ladies in age should expect similar surprises during fertilization. mature age, since before the onset of menopause the body produces eggs in a regular manner. Not immune from surprise mothers of many children who stopped taking hormonal medications before conception or took antibiotics for a long time.

Childbirth during a multiple pregnancy usually occurs earlier, the more children a woman carries. This natural process has a number of features in this case, because the work of all systems of the mother’s body works at an increased rate and consumes much more energy.

Despite the fact that pathologies such as uterine bleeding and oxygen starvation of the second fetus cannot be excluded, the procedure is used only under strict indications. If we are talking about a pregnancy with four fetuses or more, there is a high probability of the children dying after their birth. And therefore, you need to be especially scrupulous in choosing an institution that conducts an unusual birth and a doctor who delivers the child.

There is a popular belief that a baby born weighing less than average is not a healthy newborn, even if he was born without any complications and on time. Large children with great height and weight are considered healthy.

Pathology or normal

The norm is considered to be a weight of three kilograms, plus or minus 500 grams. You could say this is a classic weight. “Giants” are considered to be babies weighing more than five kilograms. The height of such heroes is also above average and can reach up to 60 centimeters.

However, there are cases when even these “heroic” norms are exceeded by several tens of percent.

Such large babies will not necessarily become giants. With age, the difference with children with average parameters gradually decreases, and by maturity it disappears altogether. For example, Tom Jerryson, born in Texas, weighed 8.5 kilograms in 1962 and was 58 centimeters tall. By the age of 10, his weight was already 33 kg, that is, within the average norm. At 50 years old, with a height of 175 cm, his body weight was 80 kg. It turns out that nature itself corrects failures in the development of giant children.

True, not everything is so good. Doctors have been studying such anomalies for several decades. Children born with weight are often more than normal subsequently suffer diabetes mellitus, allergic diseases are much more common among them. This occurs due to altered muscle tone. Children born large often develop neurological diseases. Of course, when such a child is born, it is not necessary that he will develop all such diseases, but the risk of their occurrence is much greater than in “average” children.

It’s just that the baby’s parents will need to pay more attention to such factors in the future.

Records of the birth of giants

The world has long been recording appearances with weight exceeding the norm. The Guinness Book of Records describes many such cases. Just recently, a baby was born in Indonesia whose weight was more than nine kilograms (2009). His height was 62 cm. The birth of such a child can hardly be called a normal birth; most likely, it was removed from the mother.

Modern medicine is ready for such surprises of nature, so the health of the mother of such a hero was not in danger. The difficulty was raising a child after birth. The mother constantly had to feed the baby, since from his first days he had an increased appetite. This large baby was also different from the other babies in his voice, because he cried much louder than the others.

Doctors explain this increased development of the fetus by the mother's illness due to diabetes mellitus. The largest in the countries of the former CIS are considered to be a boy weighing 6.7 kg (Samara) and a girl born in Altai, her weight was 7.7 kg. Currently, the record holder is a child whose birth weight reached 10.2 kg. This baby was born in 1955 in Italy.

Pregnancy for most women is an expected and happy event, but it happens that it turns out to be multiple. Most often, a woman with a multiple pregnancy gives birth to twins or triplets, but is it possible to give birth to six children at one time?

All about multiple pregnancy

Multiple pregnancy is a condition in which two or more embryos develop simultaneously in the uterus. The body of a woman with a multiple pregnancy requires very close attention, so the future mother of many children must treat it with full responsibility. She must follow a special daily and nutritional regimen, as well as undergo preventive measures. possible complications. Children born as a result of multiple pregnancies are called identical or fraternal twins.

Simultaneous maturation of two or more eggs occurs in both one and two female ovaries at once.

The causes of multiple pregnancies are most often several factors, which include maternal heredity and in vitro fertilization, in which all the eggs implanted in the woman’s uterus take root and develop. In addition, multiple pregnancies can develop as a result of stimulation of ovulation by hormones that cause increased functioning of the ovaries, as well as with uterine anomalies, represented by its bicornuity or the presence of an intrauterine septum. And finally, the development of two or more fetuses is caused by the abolition of hormonal contraceptives after their long-term use.

Six-fetal pregnancy

The most multiple pregnancy reliably known to doctors consisted of nine children, several of whom were born alive, but died in childhood. Subsequently, it became known about the birth of seven and eight twins - in each case, only a few children survived the pregnancy. The six Indian twins are the first children ever to survive.

Now there are two sets of twins born in 1983 and 1986 living in England, and two more “sixes” live in Italy and South Africa.

Today, the birth of six children is quite possible, because last years The quality of obstetric services and pediatric therapy, as well as the necessary medical equipment, has increased significantly. Today, doctors can successfully deliver a woman with a multiple pregnancy and save children born even fourteen weeks prematurely, whereas previously they did not try to save such babies, considering the situation completely hopeless.

Record number of births

Elizabeth Greenhill, a resident of Great Britain, was included in the Guinness Book of Records for the largest number of births. This woman gave birth 38 times. And only once did she have twins. Elizabeth died in 1681, leaving behind a “rich” inheritance in the form of 32 daughters and 7 sons.

Express information on the country

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Age– 4.54 billion years

Average radius – 6,378.2 km

Average circumference – 40,030.2 km

Square– 510,072 million km² (29.1% land and 70.9% water)

Number of continents– 6: Eurasia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia and Antarctica

Number of oceans– 4: Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic

Population– 7.3 billion people. (50.4% men and 49.6% women)

Most populous states: Monaco (18,678 people/km2), Singapore (7607 people/km2) and Vatican City (1914 people/km2)

Number of countries: total 252, independent 195

Number of languages ​​in the world– about 6,000

Number of official languages– 95; the most common: English (56 countries), French (29 countries) and Arabic (24 countries)

Number of nationalities– about 2,000

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Only another mother-heroine from Italy, Maddalena Granata, can compare with Elizabeth. During her life, she was pregnant 15 times and each time she gave birth to 3 children at once.

History also knows cases of multiple pregnancies, when one woman gave birth to 11 children at once. This happened at the end of the twentieth century in the USA and Bangladesh. In both cases, not a single child survived.

Record number of embryos

Unfortunately, in almost all cases of multiple pregnancies (more than 10 embryos), even if it comes to childbirth, the chances of survival for such babies are negligible. In 1971, in Italy, Dr. Gennaro Montanino performed an abortion on a 35-year-old woman, from whose uterus he removed 15 embryos! 5 of them were male, and 10 were female. The operation was carried out for a period of 4 months. After lengthy investigations, doctors came to the conclusion that such an anomaly had become side effect taking fertility pills.

That same year, a woman in Australia gave birth to 9 children - 5 boys and 4 girls. 2 boys were stillborn, the rest of the children lived no more than a week.

At various times in the mid-twentieth century, reports came from China, Brazil and Spain about the birth of 10 children at once. There is no information about whether the babies survived or not.

At the beginning of 2009, a resident of the United States, Nadya Suleiman, gave birth to eight children at once. The media gave her the nickname "Octomom". The weight of six boys and two girls ranged from 800 to 1400 g. All children are alive and well. It is noteworthy that the American woman was never married and already had six children before these births.

Largest number of children born to one woman

History knows a woman who gave birth to 69 children. The wife of a Russian peasant gave birth 27 times between 1725 and 1765. The woman gave birth to 4 children 4 times, 3 times 7 times and twins 16 times. All but two children survived.

Another fertile mother is Leontina Albina from Chile. She gave birth to 55 children, and the first 5 times 3 babies were born and only boys.

The most numerous father in history

For some reason, all records concerning children are tied to mothers. However, history also knows the father with many children - Yakov Kirillov. From his first marriage he had 57 children, and from his second - 15. In total, it turns out that the man became a father 72 times. For this, in 1755 he was presented to the court at the age of 60.

Record-breaking grandfather

Another man has set a kind of record in the field of childbirth. This is a modern resident of Novokuznetsk Alexey Shapovalov. He is called the richest grandfather in the world. Alexey has 11 sons and two daughters, who gave him a total of 117 grandchildren. They, in turn, have already managed to “reward” the grandfather with 33 great-grandchildren.