A world record breaking brood of nonuplets gets through an eye watering 100 nappies a day.
Halima Cisse safely welcomed her nine babies into the world at Ain Borja clinic in Casablanca, Morocco on 5 May.
In doing so the 26-year-old beat the previous record set by 'Octomum' Nadya Suleman in 2009, who gave birth to eight babies that survived.
Two and a half months later, all of the tots - who weighed between 500g and 1kg at birth - are being looked after in incubators in the clinic's intensive care unit.
The record shattering brood of five girls and four boys, which was conceived naturally, has also taken a big toll on Halima.
Only finding out she was expecting nine babies minutes before the birth, the mum almost died from blood loss during the delivery.
"As the babies were coming out, there were so many questions going through my mind," she told the Mail Online.
"I was very aware of what was going on and it seemed as if there was an endless stream of babies coming out of me."
Halima added: "My sister was holding my hand but all I could think about was how would I look after them and who was going to help me?"
Within a month she had run out of breast milk and she now lives in a private room in the hospital, too exhausted to look after the children.
Instead she visits them once a day for 30 minutes so as to forge a bond with the tots.
The babies need up to six litres of milk a day to keep them fed.
When they leave the clinic in a predicted two month's time, they will live with Halima, merchant sailor dad Kader Arby and two and a half-year-old sister Souba in their modest three bedroom home in Timbuktu, Mali.
The dad, 35, was unable to travel due to Covid restrictions until this month, meaning he met his nine children for the first time on July 19.
Halima had initially spent two weeks in Point G Hospital in Bamako, Mali's capital, before she was transferred to Morocco after Mali's President of Transition Bah N'Daw intervened.
When Kader found out he had nine more children, he went "numb", he said.
He told the BBC after the birth: "God gave us these children. He is the one to decide what will happen to them.
"I'm not worried about that. When the almighty does something, he knows why."
Mr Arby added that he and his family have been overwhelmed by the support they have received.
"Everybody called me! Everybody called! The Malian authorities called expressing their joy," he said.
The babies were born in the following order: Kadidia, Mohammed VI, Fatouma, Oumar, Hawa, Adama, Bah, Oumou, El Hadji.
Despite delivering a world record breaking number of children, the couple have not ruled out having more.
Two sets of nonuplets have previously been recorded, although none of the babies survived.
One was born to a woman in Australia in 1971 and another to a woman in Malaysia in 1999.
The UK's Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), said Ms Cisse's birth was an "incredibly rare event but not impossible".
