By: D.W.
a south african woman gave birth last night by caesarean section to ten babies, two more than the doctors had initially detectedin a hospital in Pretoria, local media reported this Tuesday (06.08.2021).
The mother, whose name is Gosiame Thamara Sithole and she is 37 years old, she was 29 weeks pregnant, as stated by her husband, Teboho Tsotetsi, to the South African media IOL.
“There are seven boys and three girls, she was seven months and seven days pregnant. I am happy and excited“explained the father after giving birth, who he already had two six-year-old twin sons with his wife.
According to Sithole herself, who suffered from pain in her legs since she was eight weeks pregnant in addition to heartburn, two of the babies could not be detected on initial scans because they were located “in the wrong conduit”.
Dr. Dini Mawela, deputy director of the School of Medicine at the Sefako Makgatho University of Health Sciences, located in northern Pretoria, assured that It is a very unusual situation and, normally, related to fertility treatments, although Sithole specified that this is not the case.
“It’s a pretty unique situation. I don’t know how often it happens. Carries extremely high risk“, pointed out the doctor, for whom “the danger is that because there is not enough room in the womb for babies, they will tend to be small“.
“The children will come out young, with their chances of survival compromised. It all depends on how long you’ve had them inside.”Mawela added.
With the arrival of the ten newborns – who they will spend the next few months in the incubator-, this South African mother surpasses Halima Cisse, the Malian woman who gave birth to nine babies in Morocco, after being evacuated to that country as a precaution, at the beginning of May this year.