A woman has given birth to nine babies after being told she was only expecting seven.
Halima Cisse, 25, from Mali, in West Africa, welcomed the nonuplets by C-section on Tuesday after being told she was carrying seven children because doctors missed two of the babies in her scans.
Following ultrasounds doctors told the mother she would be giving birth to septuplets.
She was flown to Morocco for specialist care in March and gave birth this week to five girls and four boys who are said to be doing fine.
Mali's health minister Fanta Siby said: "The newborns (five girls and four boys) and the mother are all doing well," The Mirror reports
Ms Cisse spent two weeks in Point G Hospital in the Malian capital of Bamako before being transferred to Morocco after the intervention of Mali's President of Transition Bah N'Daw.
She was admitted to the Moroccan Clinic Casablanca Ain Borja from Akdital group on March 20 and finally gave birth on Tuesday.
It is currently unclear if her pregnancy was due to IVF treatment, which is one of the more common causes of multiple births, how much the babies weigh, or how far along she was in her pregnancy.
Nonuplets are extremely rare and medical complications associated with multiple births often mean that some of the babies do not reach full term.
The first recorded set of nonuplets was in Sydney in the 1971, with two stillborn and none of the babies survived more than a week.
Similarly in another case in Malaysia, in 1999, all nine of the babies died shortly after birth.
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