In December 2022, aged one and a half years old, the world’s first surviving nonuplets (九胞胎) went on their first plane flight. They travelled from Morocco, where they were born and lived for 19 months, to their parents’ home country of Mali.
And now, two months before their third birthday, the nonuplets have made their first trip to Europe, visiting Italy to appear on the televised talent show Lo Show dei Record. All nine children are healthy and developing well.
The nonuplets were too small to hold their Guinness World Records certificate (证书) when it was first presented to them in 2022, but they’ve grown a lot since then and they each now enjoy holding the award! Their official Guinness World Records title is: most children delivered (分娩) at a single birth to survive. The record was previously held by eight babies born to Nadya Suleman (USA) in 2009.
The five girls were named Adama, Oumou, Hawa, Kadidia, and Fatouma; the four boys were named Oumar, Elhadji, Bah and Mohammed VI. The nonuplets’ mother, Halima Cissé, said that it’s arduous to put all her children to bed each night, but they can be made to fall asleep with cuddles (搂抱): “We cuddle them so they can sleep; they really like cuddles to sleep,” she said.
Until the arrival of the Cissé children, there had been no recorded cases of nonuplets surviving more than a few hours after birth. Speaking about his children’s world record, the children’s father Abdelkader said: “It’s something special. The family is known worldwide, it’s a great thing.”
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