A Ugandan woman has gained public and media attention in her country for giving birth to 38 children at the age of 37.
Mariam Nabatanzi Babirye is reported by the Daily Monitor of Uganda to have had six sets of twins, four sets of triplets, three sets of quadruplets and single births.
She has ten girls and the rest are boys. Mariam according to the Daily Monitor had her last baby via Caesarian section in December last year with doctors cutting her uterus from inside.
Mariam who got married at the age of 12 in 1993 to his husband who is now 40 years old had her oldest child 23 years ago. The youngest is four months.
She told the Daily Monitor that “I did not know I was being married off. People came home and brought things for my father. When time came for them to leave, I thought I was escorting my aunt but when I got there, she gave me away to the man.”
“My father gave birth to 45 children with different women and these all came in quintuplets, quadruples, twins and triplets,” Mariam added.
According to the Daily Monitor, doctors told Mariam that she could not be stopped from giving birth because she had a high ovary count which would eventually kill her if she stopped.
She is now struggling to take care of her children since she receives no financial help from their father.
Source: Africafeeds.com
