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Thomas Greenhill was the last child of 39 by his mother Elizabeth (1615–1681) and William Greenhill. The family consisted of 7 sons and 32 daughters. Not only is this a large number of live newborns, but is unusual in that all but one pair of twins were single births. [8] [9] 35: Ms and Mr Harrison 1736
Mariam Nabatanzi Babirye (born c. 1980) [ 1] also known as Maama Uganda or Mother Uganda, is a Ugandan woman known for birthing 44 children, 38 of whom are still alive. [ 2][ 3] As of April 2023, her eldest children were 31 years old, and the youngest were six years old. [ 2] In 2015, her husband abandoned the family, reportedly unable to ...
The Suleman octuplets are six male and two female children conceived via in vitro fertilization (IVF) and subsequently born to Nadya Suleman on January 26, 2009, in Bellflower, California. Residing in Lancaster, California, they are the first known octuplets to survive their infancy. The extremely controversial circumstances of their high-order ...
All were still alive past their 85th birthday. [ 21] The Badgett quadruplets (born 1 February 1939, in Galveston, Texas) were the second surviving set of quadruplets in the United States. The four girls, Geraldine, Joan, Jeanette, and Joyce, were minor celebrities in the 1940s and 1950s. [ 22] The Fultz quadruplets (born 23 May 1946, in ...
Multiple birth. A multiple birth is the culmination of one multiple pregnancy, wherein the mother gives birth to two or more babies. A term most applicable to vertebrate species, multiple births occur in most kinds of mammals, with varying frequencies. Such births are often named according to the number of offspring, as in twins and triplets.
In the United States, 80% of single parents are mothers. Among this percentage of single mothers: 45% of single mothers are currently divorced or separated, 1.7% are widowed, 34% of single mothers never have been married. [ 13] This is in contrast to earlier decades, where having a child outside of marriage and/or being a single mother was not ...
Meanwhile, Black and Asian women saw the number of births decline by 2.4% and 2.5%, respectively, over the same period, while American Indian/Alaskan Native women saw their numbers fall by 3.2%. [57] It also marks the first rise in births since 2014. Prior to this report, the total number of births had been decreasing by an average of 2% per ...
Leontina Albina Espinoza. Leontina Judith Albina Espinoza (1925 – August 7, 1998) was a woman from Colina, Chile, who was claimed to be the world's most prolific mother. She entered the Guinness Book of Records in 1983, which reported that she had given birth to 58 children. According to her husband Gerardo Secundo Albina, the couple were ...