Fake reports of this woman giving birth to 10 babies, breaking the Guinness World Record, circulating.
Giving birth to a child is one of the happiest feelings for any mother. You must have heard women giving birth to twins or triplets many times. But have you heard of a woman giving birth to 10 babies at once? There were reports that this South African woman gave birth to 10 babies and broke Guinness World Record, however, this is not true. There were stories claiming that the woman broke the record. A fact check by Lead Story concludes that the claim is wrong. It was wrongly claimed that this woman carried ten children in her womb at once and then gave birth to them safely. The woman named Gosiame Thamara Sithole allegedly gave birth to seven boys and three girls, as per the report in Pretoria News. But according to Lead Story's fact check, the babies have not been seen in public and there are no photos of them. Also, no hospital or doctor has confirmed the births of 10 babies at the same time. Also, the South African Government has not been able to confirm if the woman has broken the world record.
Sithole's husband allegedly told Pretoria News that the doctors had detected eight babies during the scans but the woman delivered ten on Monday night. However, it is a fake news.
On a related note, Nadya Suleman currently holds the Guinness World Records for delivering most children at a single birth to survive. She gave birth to six boys and two girls in California, US, in 2009.
The Guinness World Records website states, "The Suleman octuplets are only the second full set of octuplets to be born alive in the United States and, one week after their birth, surpassed the previous worldwide survival rate for a complete set of octuplets set by the Chukwu octuplets in 1998."
A few weeks ago, a Moroccan woman named Halima had created a record by giving birth to nine children, and now this South African woman has most probably broken Halima's record by giving birth to ten children.
(We had carried a story on woman breaking the Guinness World Records for most children delivered at a single birth to survive. However, the claims made have turned out to be fake. So, we have corrected the story.)
