A Pretoria mother has reportedly given birth to ten babies – breaking the Guinness World Record held by Malian Halima Cissé who gave birth to nine children in Morocco last month.
The IOL website in South Africa reports that Gosiame Thamara Sithole, 37, gave birth to her decuplets two more than doctors had earlier detected during the medical scans at a hospital in Pretoria last night, said her husband Teboho Tsotetsi.
He said Sithole, who hails from Tembisa Township in Ekurhuleni, delivered her seven boys and three girls by Caesarean section.
Sithole, who has six-year-old twins, previously told the Pretoria News that her pregnancy was natural as she was not on fertility treatment.
Quoting the Pretoria News, the website reported that on Monday night, Tsotetsi said Sithole gave birth to their bundles of joy 29 weeks into her pregnancy.
However, after much talk about the incredible number of multiple births, the government issued a statement saying the was no record of such a feat.
