Most children delivered at a single birth
- Who
- Halima Cisse, Geraldine Brodrick
- What
- 9 people
- Where
- Not Applicable
- When
- 2021
The most children delivered at a single birth is 9 to Geraldine Brodrick (Australia) at the Royal Hospital for Women in Sydney, Australia, on 13 June 1971. None of the children (five boys [two stillborn] and four girls) lived for more than six days.
On 4 May 2021, 9 children were born to Halima Cisse (Mali) in the Ain Borja clinic in Casablanca, Morocco. This is the first known incidence of nonpulets surviving birth.
Multiple births like nonuplets happen when a woman releases multiple eggs that get fertilized or when a single fertilized egg splits into many embryos, sometimes due to genetics or fertility treatments.