A South African woman has reportedly given birth to 10 babies at once breaking the Guinness World Record set just last month, May, held by Malian Halima Cissé who gave birth to nine children in Morocco.
Gosiame Thamara Sithole, 37, gave birth to her decuplets – two more than doctors had earlier detected during the medical scans – at a hospital in Pretoria, said her husband Teboho Tsotetsi.
He said Sithole, who hails from Tembisa Township in Ekurhuleni, delivered her seven boys and three girls by Caesarean section on June 7.
Sithole, who has six-year-old twins, previously told the Pretoria News that her pregnancy was natural as she was not on fertility treatment.
Speaking to the Publication, Tsotetsi said Sithole gave birth to their bundles of joy 29 weeks into her pregnancy.
Tsotetsi — who is unemployed — said that he “felt like one of God’s chosen children” even when he thought he was about to welcome eight kids.
Sithole’s delivery of 10 babies at once would make it the first known birth of decuplets.
A spokesperson for Guinness World Records listing told The Post Tuesday, June 8: “Guinness World Records is aware of the news that Gosiame Thamara Sithole has given birth to decuplets, and we send our congratulations and best wishes to the family.
