Women also . They were married in 1832, and together they had 21 children 13 boys and eight girls. "Just think of the stress!" Tilly makes clear that his research is not in any way intended to open the doors to women having thousands of children. Valentina and Feodor Vassilyev [1] 1765. Naturally, the new mom wanted to see and hold her precious baby . Mariem added that doctors told her she was too fertile and that she needed to keep giving birth in order to reduce fertility levels in her ovaries. January 29, 2009, 4:06 PM. He and his wife, Valentina, conceived 69 children, and out of them all, 67 survived into adulthood. Yet another red flag in the Vassilyev tale: supposedly 67 of those 69 children survived infancy. His first wife whose name is lost to history holds the widely cited world record for bearing the most children. They had 28 children in 31 years. 1707-c . Four times she gave birth to quadruplets, seven times - triplets, 16 times - twins and another 27 times, one child each. The record for most babies born to one woman is 69. "The percentage chance of having a baby per cycle when a woman is 45 [years old] is about 1% per month," says Valerie Baker, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Stanford School of Medicine. It appeared to be the first time on record that a woman had given birth to nine surviving babies at once. I'd be shocked," says Jonathan Tilly of Northeastern University, who is investigating oocyte stem cells for their use in infertility and women's health (which we'll hear more about later on). Clay, Marie. Lived 1824 to 1903 and was the President of the Davis Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1894. She lived to be 76 and, between 1725 and 1765, had 69 children (16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets) 67 of them survived infancy with the loss of one set of twins. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, a woman from Russia, Mrs. Vassilyeva, had 69 children between the years 1725 to 1765. I have grown up in tears, my man has passed me through a lot of suffering. Initially, the answer appears to be yes, especially if you take into account the fact that triplets and quadruplets are usually birthed after shorter-than-average terms. This section lists men who have produced at least 25 or more children, usually with different women. Madeleine Devaud, wife of a village dairyman of La Gorre, western, Jennings was an MP of St. Albans before the. One woman, the wife of a 18th century Russian peasant named Feodor Vassilyev, gave birth to 69 children, spanning 27 pregnancies. Marie Verrault and Pierre Edouard Cauchon, Florestine Pich and Gaspard Beaupr had 20 children; the eldest of them was famous giant, Emma Catherine Padgett and Addison Bidwell Millard, Addison Millard (18431898) and Emma Padgett (18491919) married in 1865 in. ", Females are born with close to only one million eggs, and the number rapidly dwindles (Credit: Getty Images). She said the doctor told her he had "cut my uterus from inside". A book in 1790 by B. F. J. Hermann "Statistische Schilderung von Ruland" and a 1993 article by Julia Bell in Biometrika advise people to treat the tale "with caution.". The. They supported their children on Tom's salary as an electrician, and Barbara ran a secretarial and phone-answering service, called Barb's Wire, from her home for many years. Soon after, Michelle had a miscarriage where the couple feared birth control may have played a role. [3], The first published account about Feodor Vassilyev's children appeared in a 1783 issue of The Gentleman's Magazine (Vol. Although this can seem impossible, particularly to any woman who has recently given birth, it is not impossible. President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he fathered children through his five (possibly six) wives. Segars agrees. Quadruplets and Higher Multiple Births. According to the doctors at Mayo Clinic, a c-section is a surgery in which the baby is removed from the mother through incisions in her abdomen and uterus. Sadly, these records did not include any confirmed photographs of the Vassilyev family. And pass this astonishing story on to your friends and loved ones. Valentina Vassilyevawas the first wife of a peasant named Feodor Vassilyev from Shuya, Russia. Barbara and Thomas resided in Rogers Park on the north side of Chicago. The greatest officially recorded number of children born to one mother is 69, to the wife of Feodor Vassilyev (b. As women age, their fertility declines as the number and quality of the eggs in the ovaries lessen. The fact that surrogate mothers can now carry the biological fetuses of other people also potentially increases the maximum number of children possible within one family. Answering that question today is complicated because the "natural" limits to offspring from an individual woman no longer strictly apply. This initially came to light due to starring on. At least 82 of his children survived infancy. Feodor later had an additional 18 children with his second wife. This fertility doctor was suspected of fathering as many as 75 children by impregnating patients with his own sperm. (Credit: SPL). Ella and James Lee Townsend, sharecroppers from, Gertrude Louisa Rowe Goodley and George Thomas Jolley. These twins were born 3 months apart In fact, he fathered 18 others with his second wife, which included six pairs of twins and two sets of triplets. Emperor of Vietnam, he fathered children through 24 wives. This is the incredible story of Valentina Vassilyev, The women who gave birth to the most babies. Records say Feodor later remarried. C'mon!" So what is the actual limit? In May, a Malian woman gave birth to nonuplets in Morocco, breaking the record held by an American woman, Nadya Suleman, who gave birth to eight babies in 2009. "In the past, every pregnancy was a risk to the mother's life," says Segars. One of America's most well known sperm donors. Snopes and the Snopes.com logo are registered service marks of Snopes.com. 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Approximate year of last birth. 16 x 2 = 32 The Russian peasant, who had another six sets of twins and two sets of triplets (eighteen in all) with another woman, fathered a grand total of 87 children. Regardless of however many children Vassilyeva actually birthed, neither she nor her offspring are pictured in the much-circulated photograph displayed above. 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Her daughter also had ten sets of twins (see below). If British tabloids had existed in the 18th Century, they would have gone utterly barmy over the family of Russian peasant Feodor Vassilyev. While oocyte stem cells do not produce eggs in humans, they do in other creatures. Our content is created to the best of our knowledge, yet it is of general nature and cannot in any way substitute an individual consultation by your doctor. Numbers in bold and italics are likely to be legendary or inexact, some of them having been recorded before the 19th century. 1896. Valentina Vassilyeva, a wife of a Russian peasant has the record of giving birth to 69 children that included four sets of quadruplets, seven sets of triplets and sixteen pairs of twins. Doctors told her that she had abnormally large ovaries which led to a condition called hyperovulation. Multiple twins or triplets could in principle allow for high numbers of children, but the health risks are great (Credit: SPL). A Costa Rican business magnate who is said to have fathered 153 children between 1950 and 2005. She birthed 69 babies total in her lifetime. After the age of 44-45, the chances of being pregnant are slim.Vassilyev would have continued to give birth even after her prime reproductive years had passed. C-sections are usually only used when they're medically necessaryi.e. She birthed 69 babies total in her lifetime! A member of a fundamentalist Mormon group, Kingston had 106 children by 14 wives as of 2004. Of course, then it became 19 Kids And Counting after Michelle birthed two more babies. An important Chinese general and politician, he fathered 32 children (17 sons and 15 daughters) through his wife and nine concubines. Marielouise and William Croteau had 26 children in St. Patrice-de-Beaurivage, Qubec including six sets of twins. The most babies born to one mother belongs to a woman from Russia during the 18th century. According to official reports, during her confinement, she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and . She completely holds the record for most children born to one woman. The former King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, born in 1924, he fathered at least 35 children, by thirteen wives. Required fields are marked *. In 27 confinements she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets. TRUTH. Aston Francis Barrett (born 22 November 1946), often called "Family Man" or "Fams" for short, is a. Muhammad Yousaf of Sargodha, Pakistan, had at least 41 children from seven wives. Valentinas 27 pregnancies is certainly incredible. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. She had 16 pairs of - 16465673 He advocates the use of natural methods. But heres her bizarre, yet true story. Marie M. Clay unearthed several articles from the 1800s about Vassilyeva for her 1989 book Quadruplets and Higher Multiple Births, and while Clay admitted there were some "variations to the story," historians generally accept some truth exists behind claims about the large number of offspring who issued from Vassilyeva's womb. According to a local monastery's report to the government in Moscow, between 1725 and 1765, Mrs. Vassilyev popped out 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets, over 27 separate labors. "Her case is a genetic predisposition to hyper-ovulate - releasing multiple eggs in one cycle - which significantly increases the chances of having multiple births," he said. Robert Gardner Jr., a Scottish-born Mormon pioneer, had 37 children with 4 wives. Its real, according to numerous historical records. Only two of the children born to Vassilyeva in the period c. 1725-65 died in infancy. Your email address will not be published. But as an equally interesting side note, her husband, Feodor, went on to have even more children! (Credit: Getty Images). Indeed, this was considered a jaw-dropping feat even then and supposedly the Monastery of Nikolsk reported it to the Moscow government in 1782. A woman from South Africa has reportedly given birth to 10 babies at once, breaking the Guinness World Record held by Malian Halima Cisse - who gave birth to nine children in Morocco last. Although he is retired now, at age 25 he is estimated to have 114 children. Michelle had her first son, Josh, while she was on birth control on 1988 with her husband. And its reported that between the years of 1725 to 1765, she gave birth to four sets of quadruplets, seven sets of triplets, and 16 pairs of twins. A minor Prussian nobleman who lived 16511702, he fathered 11 children by his wife, and 30 by peasant women in his domain. None were born solo, as she gave birth 27 different times - 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets. But on a grimy wall in her home in pride of place are hanging portraits of some of her children graduating from school. According to the BBC , Mrs. Vassilyev-whose first name was never recorded-"popped out 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets in over 27 separate labours." Recent estimates show that about 40 percent of births in the United States occur outside of marriage, up from 28 percent in 1990 (Child Trends, 2016). 1995 - 2023 by Snopes Media Group Inc. And while 79% of women in their early 40s who have a master's degree also have at least one child, this share was 71% 20 years earlier. 69. Well before menopause, though, women's fertility plummets. I feel for her.". Woman Gives Birth to 9 Babies at Once After Only Expecting 7: 'God Gave Us These Children,' Says Husband Halima Cisse, 25, welcomed five girls and four boys via caesarean section in. Mariem was married off when she was only 12 years old after her parents sold her and soon after she fell pregnant, giving birth to her first child at the age of just 13. She told Joe Hattab that a "kind woman" had donated some bunk beds for her children after her husband left her, but it can still get pretty cramped, with 12 in one room sleeping two to a mattress. This is where things start to get a little murky. [6], Similarly, in her book Quadruplets and Higher Multiple Births (1989), Marie Clay of the University of Auckland notes: "Sadly, this evasion of proper investigation seems, in retrospect, to have dealt a terminal blow to our chances of ever establishing the true detail of this extraordinary case". A photograph shows the offspring of a woman who gave birth to 69 children. The objective is to promote history on Medium and demonstrate the value of historical writing. This would mean he fathered a total of 87 children. . For instance, a womans chances of dying in childbirth were very high back then. "As soon as we start talking about the infinite possibility of female fertility, though, people get crazy." Some rough calculations: 16 twins times 37 weeks; seven triplets times 32 weeks; four quadruplets times 30 weeks. Today at 43, she says she was told to stop having children three years ago following her last birth. In 1788, author Ivan Nikitich Boltin recounted the same tale in his book depicting Russian history. Furthermore, Feodor had 18 children with his second wife, making him the father of many more children. 53 p.753, London, 1783) and states that the information "however astonishing, may be depended upon, as it came directly from an English merchant in St Petersburg to his relatives in England, who added that the peasant was to be introduced to the Empress". He feels a sense of perspective should be kept and that the equality women have deservedly sought in recent decades should apply to procreation as well. 7 x 3 = 21. (Octomom Suleman, for instance, used ART.) Mrs. Fathered 64 children with 7 wives as noted in his autobiography. Those who seek to limit or prohibit safe, legal abortion need to understand the damaging consequences for the unwanted children, their mothers, and society. Professor of perinatal neuroscience and private sperm donor, he fathered 58 children. "But you'll occasionally hear of people pregnant in their late 40s. The family were from the Tolaga Bay area on New Zealand's North Island. Julianna Lukcs and her husband, a Hungarian farmer, have six sons and fourteen daughters. The last to survive was Madeleine Croteau Houle who lived to be 102 and died on January 31, 2021. Wikipedia's list of multiple births records only two instances of nonuplets (nine children born at once to the . "Sanity! These events are very rare. Bell also notes that the case was reported by The Lancet in an 1878 article about the study of twins. Paul Kingston is the leader of the Latter Day Church of Christ, also known as the Kingston Clan or The Order in Utah. 1 min read. Are they true? It can be very painful and exhausting to give birth without pain medication. The Russian woman, who died sometime between 1725 and 1765, mothered a grand total of 69 babies throughout her lifetime. And when the French Academy looked into the authenticity, supposedly the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg told them no verification was needed. According to the inscription on a gravestone in Conwy Church cemetery. The family lived in the 1700s, between 1707-1782 . Getty Images Earlier. The director of the Dutch Donor Child Foundation, told the, Mohammed Bello Abubakar (19242017) of Nigeria married 86 women and had 170 children with them before being arrested in 2008 for. Mrs. Vassileyva is a Russian woman who was from the 18th century. Only once did she give birth to a single child. Gertrude and George married in 1905 and had 20 children between 1906 and 1932, when Gertrude was aged 46. Researchers also point to the possibility that Valentina may have had a genetic predisposition for hyperovulation. Your membership is the foundation of our sustainability and resilience. ISBN 0632024666. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Standard Terms and Conditions in accordance with our Privacy & Cookie Policy. This scientist fathered up to 1000 children by, British sperm donor, made headlines in 2016 for claiming to have sired over 800 children. The winding down of a woman's "biological clock" makes a lot of sense from an evolutionary perspective, for carrying and delivering a child is an incredibly difficult task made harder with age. Throughout the years, another photograph became affiliated with this story by mistake. Ms Ofelia Llanes Gaxiola, of Culiacn, Sinaloa. His second wife gave birth to eight sets of twins and two sets of triplets: six sets of twins and two sets of triplets. Most women don't get pregnant past their mid-forties, so would there be enough time to have 69 children? Talk about tabloid fodder. Despite the fact that her first name is uncertain, historical records indicate that she had 27 children between 1725 and 1765. Japanese royalty, fathered 17 sons and 14 daughters with ten wives. Sue (Suzanne) Radford has given birth to 22 children as of April 2020, 11 boys and 11 girls, all single births. The South African woman who claims she gave birth to 10 babies at once has been admitted to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation amid growing speculation over whether she was ever actually . 9.1k Views. According to Mayo Clinic, a US private health company with offices around the world: "Severe ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome is uncommon, but can be life-threatening.". The other consideration is whether or not such a large number of multiples is practical, and whether or not the female body can physically accommodate such a large number of births. This is a list of mothers said to have given birth to 20 or more children and men said to have fathered more than 25 children. She lived to be 76 and, between 1725 and 1765, had 69 children (16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets) 67 of them survived infancy with the loss of one set of twins. Ms Moddie Mae Oliver, aged 50, wife of a Lumberton. By his first wife: 4 x 4 = 16. What's the most surprising family you've ever encountered? Mrs. At this time, their eldest son (Christopher) is 30 years old. Alexander was a Mormon, a corporal in the Mormon Battalion, and was friendly with Joseph Smith. During that 40-year period, the woman had: Each birth is registered in the case, which the Monastery of Nikolsk reported to Moscow in 1782. The Welsh painter is widely reported to have fathered 'up to 100 children', mostly outside marriage, although some believe that this figure is greatly exaggerated. This built-in, biological method of birth control would lengthen the odds even further for her getting pregnant as often as she apparently must have for 69 crumbsnatchers. The Spanish Supreme Court upheld an . Tell us about them in the comments below! Read about our approach to external linking. "Pregnancy is the most physically rigorous thing a woman's body ever goes through.". The Guinness Book of World Records (which does not necessarily adhere to strict standards for documenting historical claims from centuries past) found the claim plausible enough to name Valentina Vassilyeva as "The World's Most Prolific Mother": Vassilyev, a peasant from Shuya (near Moscow), Russia, gave birth to a total of 69 children, comprising 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets. Only two of the children born to Mme. Gosiame Thamara Sithole, pictured here a month ago, gave birth on Monday A South African woman has reportedly given birth to 10 babies in what would be a new world record. Valentina Vassilyev and her husband Feodor Vassilyev are alleged to hold the record for the most children a couple has produced. She gave birth to a total of 69 children - sixteen pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets - between . says Baker. Vassilyev is still a rock star even if the number is half of what was published! In developed nations, modern obstetric care, such as medically necessary caesarean sections, has slashed maternal mortality rates. History records Feodor Vassilyev as a farmer in Shuya, Russia during the 1700's. Your email address will not be published. by babiesnews January 11, 2022 A Woman Russia Gave Birth To 69 Children In 76 Years, Is That True Today the proportion of the population is decreasing as many couples choose to have fewer children, and many couples fear about motherhood. Meanwhile, in one of the poorest countries on the planet, Sierra Leone, the rate is 1,100 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. As Dr Charles Kiggundu, a gynecologist at Mulago Hospital in Uganda's capital Kampala told The Daily Monitor, the most likely cause of Mariem's extreme fertility was hereditary. Amazingly, 67 of her children survived infancy, which was a remarkable rate for the day. The number of babies that a womans body is capable of making is uncertain. In the Guinness Book of World Records, there is a record for a woman who gave birth to 69 children in her lifetime. Thats when the Christian couple abandoned birth control altogether and completely surrendered to the will of God. Your health is important to us. 4 x 4 = 16 Still, the age she would have been when she gave birth to the last few sets raises concerns. Only a few hundred thousand eggs then persist into adulthood. For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click this link: thesun.co.uk/editorial-complaints/, Mariem Nabatanzi gave birth to 44 children, of whom 38 survived, She and her children live in 4 small houses in a Ugandan village, Her husband abandoned her and took the family's money, The family do a range of odd jobs to get by, Mariem's son admits she is 'overwhelmed' by raising 38 kids alone, They were kindly donated beds for the kids to sleep on several years ago, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). It also reveals that two of the 69 babies died before reaching adulthood. Woman gave birth to 69 children in 76 years. Between 1725 and 1765, she is recorded as giving birth to a total of 69. Numbers in italics are inexact, particularly of rulers of antiquity. In her article, Bell revealed that the French Academy of Sciences attempted to verify the claims of the Vassilyev offspring, but their studies were "superfluous." "All my time has been spent looking after my children and working to earn some money.". "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. Her eldest child Ivan Kibuka, who is in his mid-20s, was forced to drop out of secondary school when his mother could no longer afford it. IOL reported that a Gauteng woman had given birth to 10 babies, breaking the Guinness World Record held by Malian Halima Ciss who gave birth to nine children in Morocco last month. Prince of Burma, fathered 32 sons and 26 daughters. Fetal twins and their more numerous permutations come about in one of two ways: either multiple ovulated eggs are successfully fertilised by sperm so-called fraternal twins or a single fertilised egg divides into two or more viable embryos, leading to identical twins with the same genetic code. In total, she had 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets! In 27 confinements she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets. Infant mortality was high in the 18th Century for full-term singletons, and dismally more so for higher-order births, who are almost always born pre-term and less healthy. The Russian woman, who died sometime between 1725 and 1765, mothered a grand total of 69 babies throughout her lifetime. The most fertile woman in history is alleged to be an 18th-century Russian peasant called Valentina Vassilyev. Likewise, the U.K.'s health ministry says women over age 50 gave birth to 69 children since 2008, a rate more than doubled since 2000. They decided to let Him determine their number of children. Instead, she is an astounding medical mystery, having conceived 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets. 21 survived to adulthood. Many of his descendants went on to become prominent figures. If it were true after all, however, the daunting childcare duties could be part of the reason why after decades of marriage, the Vassilyev couple split up. The most children birthed by ONE mother was 69 children over 27 pregnancies: 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets. He is reported to have fathered 142 children from 400 wives. No word on whether either of her breasts could say the same. They had a total of 23 children, 13 of whom lived to adulthood. 19 of them survived to adulthood. After all, human males produce millions of sperm daily throughout their lives, meaning they have essentially no natural limit to how many children they might sire other than available, ovulating partners. Still, he's hopeful it might level the playing field when it comes to fertility across the genders. He fathered 13 legitimate children through his two wives and is said to have at least 30 illegitimate children with different women of all conditions. Another aspect that seems improbable is the number of children who managed to live. Men can father hundreds of children: what if science could allow women to do the same? Facebook page "Sarcasm World" posted the photo with the caption, "The record for most babies born to one woman is 69. [7] The Lancet article states that the French Academy of Sciences attempted to verify the statements about Vassilyev's children and contacted "M. Khanikoff of the Imperial Academy of St Petersburg for advice as to the means they should pursue, but were told by him that all investigation was superfluous, that members of the family still lived in Moscow and that they had been the object of favors from the Government". Note: This is not a confirmed photo of the Vassilyev family and is for illustration purposes only (Photo Credit: Every Record). While Valentina's 27 pregnancies were phenomenal in their own right, her husband continued to have even more children. Ms Smith (born 1 September 1910) gave birth to her 20th child in, The couple had 20 children; the youngest died as a result of birth injury. Between 1725 and 1765, she is recorded as giving birth to a total of 69 children - 67 of whom survived infancy. She gave birth to a total of 69 children sixteen pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets between 1725 and 1765, a total of 27, The first wife of peasant Yakov Kirillov from the village of Vvedensky, Russia, gave birth to 57 children in a total of 21, It is claimed that Barbara Stratzmann (c. 1448 1503) of. 5 years ago Still Unfold Nowadays, giving birth to just one child and raising them can be challenging and demanding enough. Mrs. Vassilyev would have spent nearly half of her life pregnant during the 40 years she gave birth to all of her children. , Feodor, went on to your friends and loved ones woman 69! Looking after my children and working to earn some money. `` named Feodor (. 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