A Malian woman has given birth to nine babies in a world record multiple birth after medics missed two on her scans and told her she would have seven.
Halima Cisse, 25, and all five girls and four boys are 'doing fine' after a cesarean section was carried out successfully in Morocco, officials said.
Should all nine babies survive, the case would break the current world record set by 'Octomum' Nadya Suleman in 2009, who gave birth to eight babies that survived.
Ms Cisse, from Timbuktu in the north of the West African country, was flown to Morocco in March to make sure the babies were delivered safely after the pregnancy attracted the attention of the West African nation's leaders.
According to Mali 24, doctors in the impoverished country estimated that there was a less than 50 percent chance that a single one of the nine fetuses would survive.
It is currently unclear if her pregnancy was due to In vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment, which is one of the more common causes of multiple births, and how much the babies weigh.
Local media suggests she was around eight months into her pregnancy, having been initially taken to hospital when she was just six months pregnant.
Ms Cisse spent two weeks in Point G Hospital in Bamako, Mali's capital, before she was transferred to Morocco thanks to the intervention of Mali's President of Transition Bah N'Daw.
She was admitted to the Ain Borja private clinic in Casablanca on March 20, and spent over six weeks in hospital before reportedly giving birth on Tuesday (May 4).
Mali's health ministry said in a statement that Cisse had given birth to five girls and four boys by Caesarean section.
'The newborns (five girls and four boys) and the mother are all doing well,' Mali's health minister, Fanta Siby, said in a statement.
The minister added that she had been kept informed by the Malian doctor who accompanied Cisse to Morocco.
They are due to return home in several weeks' time, she added.
Culled from Dailymail
