Woman from Mali gives birth to 9 babies in Morocco

It appears to be the first time on record that a woman had given birth to nine surviving babies at once.

A Malian woman has given birth to nine babies at once — after expecting seven, according to Mali's Minister of Health and the Moroccan clinic where the nonuplets were born. It appeared to be the first time on record that a woman had given birth to nine surviving babies at once. The five girls and four boys, and their mother, “are all doing well,” Mali's health minister said in a statement.