According to Williams Obstetrics 23rd ed (2010), a woman can have 400 opportunities for pregnancies in her lifetime. It made me wonder what the world record is for the mother with the most children..
Highest Recorded Number of Children
The highest officially recorded number of children born to one mother is 69, to the first wife of Feodor Vassilyev (1707-1782) of Shuya, Russia. Between 1725 and 1765, in a total of 27 confinements, she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets. 67 of them survived infancy.
* I estimated her OB score assuming all the children were born preterm, no abortions: G 27 P 27 (0-69-0-67)
Other things to ponder:
- were they all delivered vaginally?!! or is it even possible to have 27 caesarean sections?
- was the technology in the 1700’s sufficient for the survival of all the children and even the mother? good job mother. hehe
Highest Number of Children in Modern Times
The modern world record for giving birth is held by Leontina Albina from San Antonio, Chile. Leontina claims to be the mother of 64 children, of which only 55 of them are documented. She is listed in the 1999 Guinness World Records but dropped from later editions.
source of these facts
…and look what I’ve found!!
World’s Youngest Mother: A 5 year old Peruvian
On May 14, 1939, she gave birth to a boy by a caesarean section necessitated by her small pelvis. Her son weighed 2.7 kg (6 lb) at birth and was named Gerardo after her doctor. Gerardo was raised believing that Lina was his sister, but found out at the age of ten that she was his mother. He grew up healthy but died in 1979 at the age of 40 of a disease of the bone marrow.
full article of this mother WITH PICTURES seen here
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I have this notion that I should seize possible opportunities in life. But heck, not this :p
ok, back to aral. haha.
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thebestwimpykid said:
reading this was like watching a slasher film.
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