World’s Most Fertile Woman Who Had 44 Children at 36 Stopped From Having More Babies
Woman who has given birth to 44 children has been banned from having any more babies.
Mariam Nabatanzi delivered twins a year atfter she was married off at the age of 12. Five more sets of twins followed along with four sets of triplets and five sets of quadruplets.
Mariam Nabatanzi has given birth to 38 children, including a further six that tragically died, due to her abnormally large ovaries8
The 39-year-old Ugandan can no longer give birthThree years ago, however, the 39-year-old Ugandan was abandoned by her husband, leaving her to support their surviving 38 children alone.
This has thrown her family into poverty.
She lives with her children in four cramped houses made of cement blocks and topped with corrugated iron in a village surrounded by coffee fields 31 miles north of Kampala.
Now 40, doctors have taken action to stop Mariam having more children.
She has confirmed that doctors had taken action to remove the risk of her becoming pregnant again, saying the doctor told her he had “cut my uterus from inside”.
Her epic run of pregnancies began after her first sets of twins were born.
When she went to the doctor it was noted that she had unusually large ovaries. He advised her that birth control like pills might cause health problems.
Yet the children kept coming… and coming.
Family sizes are at their largest in Africa.
In Uganda, the fertility rate averages out at 5.6 children per woman, one of the continent’s highest, and more than double the global average of 2.4 children, according to the World Bank.
But her 38-child family is probably the country’s biggest brood.
Mariam is pictured with her youngest daughter, Sudaisha, on her lap Dr Charles Kiggundu, a gynecologist at Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, told the Daily Monitor that the most likely cause of Nabatanzi’s extreme fertility was hereditary.
He said: “Her case is genetic predisposition to hyper-ovulate — releasing multiple eggs in one cycle — which significantly increases the chance of having multiple births.
“It is always genetic”
Her last pregnancy, three ago, had complications. It was her sixth set of twins and one of them died in childbirth, her sixth child to die.
Then her husband often absent for long stretches abandoned her. His name is now a family curse.
Nabatanzi refers to him using an expletive.
“I have grown up in tears, my man has passed me through a lot of suffering,” she said during an interview at her home, hands clasped as her eyes welled up.
“All my time has been spent looking after my children and working to earn some money.”
Desperate for cash, Nabatanzi turns a hand to everything: hairdressing, event decorating, collecting and selling scrap metal, brewing local gin and selling herbal medicine. The money is swallowed up by food, medical care, clothing and school fees.
On a grimy wall in one room of her home hang proud portraits of some of her children graduating from school, gold tinsel around their necks.
Mariam Nabatanzi delivered twins a year atfter she was married off at the age of 12. Five more sets of twins followed along with four sets of triplets and five sets of quadruplets.
Mariam Nabatanzi has given birth to 38 children, including a further six that tragically died, due to her abnormally large ovaries8
The 39-year-old Ugandan can no longer give birthThree years ago, however, the 39-year-old Ugandan was abandoned by her husband, leaving her to support their surviving 38 children alone.
This has thrown her family into poverty.
She lives with her children in four cramped houses made of cement blocks and topped with corrugated iron in a village surrounded by coffee fields 31 miles north of Kampala.
Now 40, doctors have taken action to stop Mariam having more children.
She has confirmed that doctors had taken action to remove the risk of her becoming pregnant again, saying the doctor told her he had “cut my uterus from inside”.
Her epic run of pregnancies began after her first sets of twins were born.
When she went to the doctor it was noted that she had unusually large ovaries. He advised her that birth control like pills might cause health problems.
Yet the children kept coming… and coming.
Family sizes are at their largest in Africa.
In Uganda, the fertility rate averages out at 5.6 children per woman, one of the continent’s highest, and more than double the global average of 2.4 children, according to the World Bank.
But her 38-child family is probably the country’s biggest brood.
Mariam is pictured with her youngest daughter, Sudaisha, on her lap Dr Charles Kiggundu, a gynecologist at Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, told the Daily Monitor that the most likely cause of Nabatanzi’s extreme fertility was hereditary.
He said: “Her case is genetic predisposition to hyper-ovulate — releasing multiple eggs in one cycle — which significantly increases the chance of having multiple births.
“It is always genetic”
Her last pregnancy, three ago, had complications. It was her sixth set of twins and one of them died in childbirth, her sixth child to die.
Then her husband often absent for long stretches abandoned her. His name is now a family curse.
Nabatanzi refers to him using an expletive.
“I have grown up in tears, my man has passed me through a lot of suffering,” she said during an interview at her home, hands clasped as her eyes welled up.
“All my time has been spent looking after my children and working to earn some money.”
Desperate for cash, Nabatanzi turns a hand to everything: hairdressing, event decorating, collecting and selling scrap metal, brewing local gin and selling herbal medicine. The money is swallowed up by food, medical care, clothing and school fees.
On a grimy wall in one room of her home hang proud portraits of some of her children graduating from school, gold tinsel around their necks.
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